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Amazon Limits Review Access After Mistaking Customers for AI, Bot Fallout Widens
Since late 2025, Amazon has restricted some users from seeing more than a few product reviews after misidentifying their visits as AI crawler traffic. Affected customers must email the company and wait several business days for a response. Users are frustrated that Amazon has offered no explanation.
- Language it was published in
- ja
- Date it happened
- 2025-12-01
- Organisation involved
- Amazon
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