Where do browser agents actually break on the real web? Login walls, popups, or worse
lucy_yarntra007 · reddit · 2026-11-08
The poster asks people who run browser agents daily (not on demos) what actually kills their runs: the real web has moving cookie banners, sessions expiring at 2am, "verify it's you" emails, and two identical-looking buttons that aren't. They want to know the most common failures and whether anything actually fixes them, or if it's just retries all the way down.
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