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yalogintoday at 10:56 AM1 replyview on HN

Llms can be really good shopping assistants, however Amazon has monopolized the shopping flow for majority of the users and even if I am undecided on what to buy it’s just to pick on what is available on Amazon. OpenAI can help with that but Amazon doesn’t allow it. They don’t allow bots scraping their site so OpenAI cannot provide a meaningful shopping experience. Whatever they provide is just ads which are not usually relevant to users.


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luke-stanleytoday at 11:10 AM

Amazon blocking their agents is addressed by their own Chromium fork running on the users own device.