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Audit my subscriptions and cancel the ones I don't need

Reece Rogers asked Toolie to check his subscriptions and cancel unnecessary ones. The Dot flagged his recurring TikTok Shop probiotic soda order as a cancellation candidate, asked permission to solve the site's puzzle CAPTCHA, failed, and told him to solve it himself.

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How it works

  1. Review the user's subscriptions
  2. Flag a recurring TikTok Shop soda order for cancellation
  3. Ask permission to solve the puzzle CAPTCHA
  4. Fail to solve it
  5. Hand the task back to the user

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent correctly found the waste but was stopped by the exact kind of human-check it exists to handle.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on peacenewspaper.com. See the original ↗

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