I gave it a reverse SSH tunnel to a remote-debugging Chrome profile on my local Mac and now it…
Interesting. A residential IP was enough for me to get my Hermes agent grocery shopping successfully on a website with quite aggressive bot protection.
I run Hermes on a VPS, and the website was blocking its IP. I gave it a reverse SSH tunnel to a remote-debugging Chrome profile on my local Mac and now it works fine.
— thenbrent, 2026-08-13, in the Hacker News thread “Grok Bot”.