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          03 · EdgeQ1Oct 22, 2026
        

Agents at the door, turned away

Personal agents are being blocked across retail, travel and local-business sites by human checks, terms-of-service bans and paid walls, some of it unintended.

Your doorDecide on purpose: if you block agents, make it a choice and not a side effect of your bot settings.

Source: TechCrunch, Oct 6, 2026 · The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in ↗
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