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Can AI shopping agents get into Germany's biggest online shops? I checked 46: robots.txt is rarely the problem, the front door is

AI assistants are starting to shop. ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can now open a product page on a user's behalf, compare prices and fill a cart. Whether that works depends on two things a shop controls: what its robots.txt says, and whether its bot protection lets the visitor in at all. On 3 Nove…

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  1. 2026-11-03 12:48 · DEV Community — AI
    Can AI shopping agents get into Germany's biggest online shops? I checked 46: robots.txt is rarely the problem, the front door is

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