eBay Blocks Meta's Muse From Listings as 993 Million DoorDash Orders Dwarf Agent Use
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Updated · The Verge · Nov 10
eBay Blocks Meta's Muse From Listings as 993 Million DoorDash Orders Dwarf Agent Use
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Nov 10
Summary
Meta’s Muse stopped pulling eBay links, prices and shipping details this weekend after the marketplace blocked third-party AI agents from browsing listings, according to tests replicated by The Verge.
eBay said it has restricted some agent access to curb unauthorized scraping and training on its data, after already updating its user agreement to ban “buy-for-me agents” and other LLM-driven bots from ordering without human review.
The move adds to uneven retailer policies: Amazon blocks external agents entirely, Target allows some browsing in limited cases, while Shopify has opened a catalog of 1 billion listings for agent-assisted shopping.
Adoption still looks small despite the hype around agentic commerce — Uber said third-party agents booked only 4 rides in Q3 and about 500 Uber Eats orders in Halloween week, while DoorDash handled several hundred against 993 million quarterly orders.