--- title: Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban | daily.dev description: A US federal court has issued a preliminary injunction banning Perplexity's AI browser Comet from accessing Amazon's website, finding Amazon likely to succeed... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/perplexity-comet-hurtling-toward-amazon-ban-6c7h85ixz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban | daily.dev og:description: A US federal court has issued a preliminary injunction banning Perplexity's AI browser Comet from accessing Amazon's website, finding Amazon likely to succeed... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/perplexity-comet-hurtling-toward-amazon-ban-6c7h85ixz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6C7H85iXz.png og:image:alt: Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A US federal court has issued a preliminary injunction banning Perplexity's AI browser Comet from accessing Amazon's website, finding Amazon likely to succeed on claims that Perplexity violated computer fraud laws by disguising its bot as a human Chrome user and accessing password-protected accounts without Amazon's authorization. The ban is stayed for seven days to allow Perplexity to appeal. The case has broader implications for the AI agent economy, suggesting automated web interactions will require explicit agreements with site owners rather than unilateral access. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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