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Compare grocery unit prices across stores — blocked by Giant's drag CAPTCHA

Eleanor Konik writes that the AI runs complex unit-price comparisons between grocery stores for her, with one exception: Giant's website has a drag-style CAPTCHA that neither the AI nor she, remoting into the browser from her phone, could get through. The comparison workflow works elsewhere; Giant remains a hard wall.

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How it works

  1. Ask the AI to compare unit prices across grocery stores
  2. The AI runs the comparison on accessible store sites
  3. Giant's site presents a drag-style CAPTCHA
  4. The AI cannot pass it, and her own remote browser control from her phone cannot either
  5. Giant excluded from comparisons

Why it’s worth knowing

A drag CAPTCHA stopped both the agent and the human driving the same browser remotely.

Where it’s from

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

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