eBay appears to be blocking third-party AI agents, Meta’s Muse among them, from browsing its marketplace, according to The Verge. A reader’s Muse agent, which had been putting together a daily roundup of eBay watch listings for him, stopped being able to pull anything from the site last weekend, and The Verge reproduced the block with its own searches. eBay had already changed its user agreement to bar agents from buying without a human reviewing the order, but agents could still browse listings until recently. An eBay spokesperson wouldn’t say whether the company added new limits, but said eBay restricts agents in some cases, such as scraping its data or training on it, and is talking with potential partners about letting outside agents in.
