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.

This exactly! It sounds like a good thing in theory, but in practice everything is blocked that I've ran into, using Hermes to try to automate things like this. It's not just bot blocks either, but things like Captcha and such.