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Buy my Amazon shopping list — blocked, then cart-only via my own browser

Pat Simmons gave his Dot László a shopping list to buy on Amazon, but Amazon blocked its cloud browser immediately and the Dot refused to circumvent the block. Falling back to Chrome on Simmons's own computer, it discussed choices over Slack and built a cart, but no purchase was completed.

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How it works

  1. Open Amazon in the Dot's cloud browser
  2. Get blocked by Amazon
  3. Refuse the owner's request to build a workaround
  4. Fall back to Chrome on his computer
  5. Discuss item choices over Slack with screenshots
  6. Add and remove items in a cart
  7. Stop short of any purchase

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent refused to dodge Amazon's block and quietly downgraded itself to cart-building on the owner's own browser.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on aiformortals.co. See the original ↗

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