Who’s Blocking the ChatGPT Agent? Swiss Top 50 E-Commerce Sites Tested
This is an interesting discussion about which of the biggest Swiss Ecommerce sites are blocking ChatGPT User-agent! You can check the source and here's the translation: "Which Swiss Top 50 Online Shops Block the ChatGPT Agent? ⏩ Spoiler: It looks better than expected! With the ChatGPT agent, online shopping could now be possible. But are the top 50 Swiss online shops also usable or even accessible for the agent? To check this, I commissioned the agent to do so based on the Carpathia AG Top 50 B2C Shops in Switzerland. Here are the findings, which I have manually re-checked in individual cases. The vast majority of shops can be visited by the agent. The "party" in the club can therefore begin. I find that very positive. The following "blocks/bouncers" were observed by the agent and myself: ❌ JUMBO A captcha in the form of a sliding puzzle appears here for the explicit purpose of bot defense. ❌ Orell Füssli Thalia AG and DeinDeal AG The bot is shown the Cloudflare Turnstile for bot defense. It is not known whether this is intentional or "just" because it was recently introduced by Cloudflare for all AI visits. I had seen this same display a few days ago on Apfelkiste.ch. Apparently, they have already reacted there. ❌ Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund (migros.ch) Even after several attempts, including with deep links, a maintenance page is always displayed, and the agent cannot access the shop. ❌ La Redoute A technical error is received here, which, however, points to bot defense. ❌ Amazon (de/fr/it) and AliExpress A technical error is also displayed here—apparently, the large platforms only want to grant access to their own agents. 🟰 At Nestlé Nespresso SA, there were initial problems, but in further manual tests, the agent was then able to access the site. Apparently, a redirect was not properly interpreted there. Pearl in Switzerland is now called emall.com and can be reached by the agent.