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dragonwriter11/04/20251 replyview on HN

> Anyone know why Amazon wants AI agents to stop making purchases?

Because it bypasses their efforts to promote preferred products in the short term and, more importantly, in the long term someone else becoming the front door to purchasing also enables that actor to commodify Amazon the same way Amazon commodifies other sellers, and before long to cut out Amazon as a middleman entirely and become the marketplace where buyers purchase from a diverse array of functionally anonymous, interchangeable sellers.


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plumeria11/04/2025

In short: because they don’t want to become Toys “R” Us.

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