eBay appears to have shut the door on third-party AI agents

Summary

eBay appears to have blocked AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from browsing its listings. A reader found that Muse, which had compiled a daily watch-listing digest for weeks, suddenly could not retrieve any eBay links or details and reported being blocked from the site.

Topics

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