Announcing Turnstile, a user-friendly, privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA
Sep 28, 2022Reid Tatoris, Benedikt Wolters, Maxime Guerreiro, Miguel de Moura

Summary
Introduced Turnstile, a new product offering a privacy-preserving, user-friendly alternative to CAPTCHA. Turnstile utilizes a rotating suite of non-intrusive browser challenges and machine learning models to validate users, minimizing data collection and integrating with Apple's Private Access Tokens. The product is available as a standalone service, allowing integration via a simple API without requiring traffic to pass through Cloudflare's global network. It offers implicit and explicit rendering options, custom 'Actions' for distinguishing use cases, and provides analytics on widget deployment and user behavior.
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