AI agents' next hurdle: websites like Amazon are locking them out
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-10-07
TechCrunch reports consumer AI agents (Meta's Muse, Instinct, ChatGPT's Dots) are increasingly blocked by websites—Amazon recently began blocking Muse from browsing and purchasing—making access to online services the next big hurdle for the agentic wave, and echoing why Meta and Sierra proposed an open protocol.
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