I Built an AI That Has to Lie to the Internet to Do Its Job

At PCI Oasis Inc, I was handed a task that sounded simple on paper: "Help build a crawler that navigates e-commerce websites from the homepage to the checkout page." Easy enough, right? Open a browser, click some buttons, reach checkout. Done. Except the internet doesn't want you to do that. The Problem Nobody Talks About Every major e-commerce platform, your favourite fashion brands, electronics s, and sneaker sites run some form of bot detection. Cloudflare. DataDome. PerimeterX. Akamai. Kasada. These systems are sophisticated.