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Re:Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on a... by snailmailman on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:18PM (#49792004)
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?

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Re:Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on a... by xnx on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:24PM (#49792086)
It is unfair. I too (a human) have been caught in Cloudflare loops. Hopefully these are the dying gasps for captchas and sites will give up soon since they are becoming reverse-captchas.
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Re:Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on a... by snailmailman on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:26AM (#49826248)
I assume its my IP's reputation, or that of my entire ISP/ASN. As far as i can tell I dont have a residential proxy, but I cant make those same guarantees about nearby IPs.

I do use firefox with third party cookies disabled + ublock origin, but thats on my desktop. I actually see the cloudflare popups more often on my latest-iOS iPhone in stock safari with whatever minimal tracking protection is built in. Not on a VPN, and not using iCloud public relay either. Its very frustrating.

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Re:Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on a... by tencentshill on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:31AM (#49801958)
Check your network for unwanted traffic. You could have a residential proxy running on some device. Including almost any LG TV.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-pr...

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Re:Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on a... by snailmailman on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:50PM (#49824295)
I've been keeping an eye on my network traffic and as far as i can tell I'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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