posted on August 24, 2003 06:43:43 AM new
It will be interesting to see if the press cares at all when he blows the whistle on a flaw. My guess is that it may just be a tempest in a teapot.
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posted on August 24, 2003 10:25:54 AM new
Could be why those of us who don't use our email addresses in auctions or me pages are still getting spoof emails.
posted on August 24, 2003 03:09:10 PM new
I have noticed that when browsing if I have "block third party cookies" set to off,
many auctions ask to place a cookie. That really bites they can harvest your email from a cookie in an auction.
posted on August 24, 2003 05:55:03 PM new
Yup, very astute observation there Tessa! Did the guy in the article mention that common occurence? I don't think so, it may have messed up his 'the sky is falling' campaign.
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posted on August 24, 2003 08:35:08 PM new
I'm still upset about whatever *change* it was Ebay made to their pages once they implemented the "view your last three searches" to the bottom of the page. Once they did, most of the time I can not back up to what I was searching on before. I don't give a rats ass what they say about "turning it off in preferences" it doesn't turn off.
Clear your cookies (or at least REALLY clear cookies like I do daily by running window washer and spybot and shut my computer down and restart) and there are the d*mned things AGAIN! and Again!
At that point, can I back up several pages and get back to where I first started searching? NO! And why not? I finally clicked on the little red icon in the bottom right of the toolbar, which indicates a cookie is being blocked. The cookie is doubleclick which is one of the worst cookie tracking site! I have my computer permanently blocked not to allow this cookie.
This leads me to believe that Ebay has sold us down the river with this (once again) "new and improved feature". They are now tracking what people look at. I'm sure they did it before somehow, but NOW I think they really are tracking it seriously and selling the information.
I have posted several times about this on the community boards and you can bet nobody from ebay ever responds to this! Don't tell me I can turn the d*mned thing off when you can't really turn it off!
posted on August 25, 2003 12:33:22 AM new
Ace,
You mean, did he mention you can block the cookies?
Most of the campaign as you call it, is directed toward the message boards. There is only one line that says the email can be harvested from browsing auctions as well. It almost seems to me an IE flaw, rather than ebay's problem. ?
Sure you can block the cookies, but how many people really know to do that? And besides when you do pages do not load quite as fast, so it is a bit of an annoyance.
I do kind of think ebay should at least tell people in their privacy policy that this could be happening. (like people even read the privacy policy either!)
But you know what? You're out there. I dont care what you do. It's all being collecting by companies and government. Privacy on the internet is a big joke, anyway.
posted on August 25, 2003 04:05:30 PM new
Glassgrl -
I had started that thread about myFeebay problems and someone suggested turning it off - and it seems to have worked. With it on it made browsing backwards a total nightmare, with all the double-clutching the browser seemed to do.
I'm surprised your settings don't take hold. I'm running IE's latest 6.02800 if that's any help.
posted on August 25, 2003 04:36:30 PM new
IE 6.0.2800.1106 for me, and there are no further downloads that I need, I just checked.
It doesn't matter that I have turned it off, it STILL SHOWS UP once I clear my cookies. How do you clear your cookies?
Do you run Spybot search and destroy? (which finds usage tracks that I never thought about erasing)
Do you run window washer? - which also clears cookies via the "custom" wash items.
I also clear cookies on tools/internet options and delete all those files.
After ALL THAT, I shut down my computer and restart as that is what window washer recommends to completely erase all your tracks. Otherwise they are still lingering there. Once I've done that, there are the last three items I've looked at AGAIN. It doesn't matter that my preferences are checked. Here's a direct cut and paste.
*Hide recently viewed items and searches
OK, maybe JUST maybe if I'm lucky it's because I alternate among my selling and screen name which cruising ebay and ask a seller a question, and I did not have BOTH screen names with the preference checked, I'll let you know if that was it. I just checked and with my buying screen name I did not have that checked. However, I don't see what diffence that makes as long as I'm not "signed in".
posted on August 25, 2003 05:37:29 PM new
nope it wasn't the fact that I didn't have the preference on my "other" ebay named checked off. I did all the things I normally do, ran all the cookie clearing things and whoop, there it is again at the bottom of the page.
I'm convinced this is a tracking cookie. At least that's what it says when I click the red thingy...
