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Shop for me while presenting as an ordinary Chrome browser

Forkast reported that the AI shops and browses for its roughly 2.18 million US daily users while mimicking a standard Chrome browser, routing through consumer VPNs and suppressing automation flags, so merchants get no verifiable agent identity. Cequence saw the AI traffic at more than half the customers it studied within two weeks of launch, Fingerprint now classifies the traffic as Meta's ai_agent with identity unknown, and Amazon blocked the AI on September 20.

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How it works

  1. Users send the AI on shopping and web errands
  2. The AI presents as ordinary Chrome via consumer VPNs with automation flags suppressed
  3. Merchant security cannot verify it as an agent
  4. Detection firms build behavioral classifiers for the traffic
  5. Some merchants block it outright

Why it’s worth knowing

The camouflage worked so well that a detection industry had to learn to spot the AI behaviourally, from a browser update that spiked from 0% to 90% of its traffic in days.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on forkast.news. See the original ↗

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