Some major websites are closing their doors to SI agents: Yelp admits only those that pay for data licensing, Delta does not let them buy tickets
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There is as yet no common right of access to websites for SI agents: some services demand a license or shut off accounts for security reasons.
According to The Verge, users of Meta Muse, xAI Grok, OpenAI Dots and Instinct agents have reported blocks on popular websites in recent weeks. Yelp, as it told TechCrunch, admits only agents that pay for its data licensing program; Delta Air Lines does not let agents book tickets on users' behalf; JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab confirmed that they block agents from accessing accounts for security reasons. Some users write that Cars.com and Amtrak stopped working; these are user reports, and the article has no confirmation from the services. The outlet recalls the dispute between Amazon and Perplexity: Amazon said it had repeatedly asked Perplexity to stop agent purchases on its site and that such services should respect a platform's decision; Perplexity replied that the agent is an extension of the user. Cloudflare, according to the article, began blocking crawlers that scrape sites for both search indexing and SI training at the same time.
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