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Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com

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  1. xnx · · focus · HN ↗
    With AI's capable of defeating every captcha short of ARC-AGI, I don't know how this cat-and-mouse game will continue. Services (now banks, later Amazon) will require attested hardware, but even that can be put in the hands of a robot.

    I wish services would get over trying to block how their customers want to use (or NOT use) their websites.

    1. snailmailman · · focus · HN ↗
      How are AI's capable of defeating every captcha when I, a human, get sometimes entirely blocked by captchas all the time.

      I get captchas when trying to do google searches if I'm not logged in. Or a lot of the time its "please wait a moment. Don't refresh the page" (the google results will then never load until you refresh the page). A few weeks ago I couldn't get past a cloudflare checkbox on a modern iPhone, and I'm not on a VPN or anything either. Yesterday I tried to visit an old reddit thread I had bookmarked and got "You've been blocked by network security," without a chance to even attempt a captcha.

      What are bots doing to get past all of these?

      1. tencentshill · · focus · HN ↗
        Check your network for unwanted traffic. You could have a residential proxy running on some device. Including almost any LG TV.

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&#x2F;2026&#x2F;07&#x2F;lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&#x2F;2026&#x2F;07&#x2F;lg-to-ban-residential-pr...

        1. snailmailman · · focus · HN ↗
          I&#x27;ve been keeping an eye on my network traffic and as far as i can tell I&#x27;m not part of any residential proxy. I used to have an LG tv but not anymore.

          My ISP occasionally gives me a new IP upon router reboot and sometimes it improves briefly and sometimes it gets much worse, I think maybe nearby IPs or my ISP in general must have lower than average reputation.

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