Shopping

Airlines, Reddit, Amazon and Even His County: A Meta Muse User Lists Sites That Now Block His Agent (Cautionary)

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min (estimated)
  • Evidence Anecdotal
  • CostNot stated in source
  • No-codeYes
Meta MuseSource-linkedBeginner-friendly

What they did

Will your agent still work on the sites you need? A Muse user says more and more sites are blocking it. He lists most airlines (blocking logins), Reddit and many forums even when he logged in himself, Amazon (which made shopping and price tracking not worth it), and his county's site, which he had used through Muse the month before to lower his property taxes.

How it went

A quick check of which sites your agent can use, with a plan B for the rest.

Worth knowing

  • One Reddit post, and blocking changes week to week. Don't try to dodge a site's bot block. It can get your account banned.

Prompt

Cleaned version rewritten from the source — not a direct quote.

Before we start, check whether you can actually use [site 1], [site 2] and [site 3] for me. For each, tell me if you're blocked, need me to log in, or work fine. For any blocked site, give me the quickest way to do the task myself, and the official API or app if one exists.

Recommended

Try it in Grok Bot

Ask Grok Bot the same up-front check before it starts a task on a site.

  1. Copy the prompt (button below).
  2. Open Grok Bot chat and paste it. Replace any [bracketed] placeholders.
  3. Connect the listed tools (Reddit, Browser) as connectors when Grok Bot asks.
  4. If the task repeats, ask: "Make this a daily routine."

Alternatives: the same prompt works in Meta Muse, Claude, ChatGPT Agent, OpenClaw.

Set it up

Tools: Reddit, Browser · Stack: Meta Muse + browser

  1. Read the original source for full context.
  2. Connect the tools your agent needs.
  3. Paste the prompt and replace [bracketed] placeholders.
  4. Run once manually and check the output before scheduling it.

Generic suggested steps, not from the source.

Evidence

First-hand Reddit post: airlines, Reddit, forums, Amazon and his county site blocking Muse; mentions using Muse the month before to reduce property taxes

Source: Reddit · 2026-10-19 · Verified by us: not yet · Report broken or outdated

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