Fraud Prevention in the Age of AI Agents

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A major challenge for almost every online service is reliably identifying users, and knowing whether a given user or agent can be trusted. Historically, web services leaned on cookies stored in the browser to remember a visitor and recognize them when they return. The problem is that cookies live in the user’s own browser and are easy to remove, block, or avoid entirely, so a bad actor can simply clear them to escape recognition. IP blocking and CAPTCHA puzzles are firmer approaches, but they can frustrate legitimate users while doing little to stop a determined attacker. That leaves developers stuck between being too lax and losing control, or too strict and driving real users away. Fingerp…