eBay appears to block third-party AI agents from browsing its listings
What happened
The Verge reports that eBay has already banned agent tools that place orders without human review. A November 11 report says eBay appears to have blocked third-party AI agents such as Meta Muse from browsing the platform, and The Verge reproduced cases where product links and details could not be fetched. An eBay spokesperson acknowledged the platform restricts agent access in cases such as unauthorized scraping and data training, but did not directly answer whether new restrictions were added recently. In some tests Muse redirected users to outside sites mirroring eBay listings. eBay has not directly confirmed whether access limits were newly added.
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- The Verge · AIeBay appears to have shut the door on third-party AI agents
eBay疑似已阻止Meta Muse等第三方AI智能体浏览平台，The Verge实测复现了无法获取商品链接和详情的情况。eBay此前已禁止未经人工审核下单的智能体工具，其发言人承认在未经授权抓取和数据训练等情形下限制智能体访问，但未直接回答近期是否新增限制。部分测试中，Muse转而引导用户访问镜像展示eBay商品的外部网站。
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