eBay appears to have shut the door on third-party AI agents

eBay appears to have blocked third-party AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from browsing the platform, with a reader telling The Verge that Muse could no longer pull listing links or details from eBay and said it was blocked from the site. An eBay spokesperson declined to say directly whether new limits were imposed, saying the company takes a selective approach to third-party access and has restricted agent access in certain cases, including unauthorized scraping and training on its data. Meta declined to comment.