Amazon has said that it cannot be implemented browser agent Out of the online store, the company both confirmed publicly on Tuesday. After being warned several times over, the struggling Ai Shower Assistant is breaking down on Amazon Terms of Service By not identifying itself as an agent, the eCommerce giant sent a letter to the AI search engine that was clearly read, worryingly writing in a blog post titled “Bullying is not innovation.”
“This week, confusion received an aggressive legal threat from Amazon, which asked us to ban Comet users from Amazon. This is a threat to all users on Amazon.
The perplexity argument is that, since the agent is acting at the direction of the human user, the agent automatically has the “Same Permissions” as the human user. The implication is that one should not identify oneself as an agent.
Amazon Response Indicates that other third-party agents are working with the easiest way for users to identify themselves. “This is how others operate, including food delivery apps and restaurants that take orders, delivery service apps and online travel farms and airlines that explain to customers,” Amazon’s statement explains.
If Amazon is to be trusted, then worry can find an agent and start shopping. Of course the risk is that Amazon, which has its own shopping bot called Rufus, could also block Comet – or other third-party clothing shopping – from its site.
Amazon recommends it widely, which also said, “We think that it is common that third-party applications that offer to buy open and non-participating service provider decisions.”
Perplexity states that Amazon will block bots because Amazon wants to sell ads and product space. Unlike human shoppers, bots tasked with buying a new basket of laundry won’t be able to buy something more expensive, or shop to buy the latest Brandon Sanderson novel and earphones!).
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If it all sounds familiar, that’s because it is. A few months ago, Cloudflare Published Empowerment Research From scraping websites when special requests from websites that block AI bots. Interestingly, many people came to the defense of the perplexity of the time, because this was not a clear case of ambiguity. Cloudflare notes how AI accesses public websites When a user inquires about that particular website. Worry fans, this is exactly what every human-operated web browser does.
On the other hand, it is confusing to use some of the methods that can be found to access when the website that opts out of bots, like hiding your identity.
As TechCrun reported at the time, it was a harbinger of things to come that the world of agent matipari as Silicon Valley predicted. If consumers and companies are not flooded, travel bookings, and restaurant reservations for bots, will it be appropriate for bots to block bots altogether? How can we allow and work?
Perplexity may be in the Amazon that is before. As the 800-pound gorilla in eCommerce, he clearly said that this method should be used for agents to identify themselves and for the website to decide.