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eBay Uses PayPal To Spy On Its Sellers*


Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry  Mar. 16, 2011, 6:11 AM

eBay monitors the PayPal accounts of its biggest sellers to see how much off-eBay business they're doing and thereby reward or punish them on their platform. That's at least the allegationmade by Daniel Leffel, the CEO of eBay competitor Yardseller, citing "a senior level eBay person." (eBay owns PayPal.) Leffel also says it uses PayPal to spy on competitors.

eBay's core business is in a bad shape in many ways. Though it's still a cash machine, it's still very inefficient, and many of these inefficiencies privilege big eBay sellers over smaller ones, which is noxious for the platform in general. In many ways, eBay is held hostage by its biggest sellers.

The company is planning to address this with its "New eBay" strategy, which sounds good, but as so often, execution is what will make or break it.

Update: A PayPal spokesperson writes us:

This is absolutely untrue. PayPal does not share an individual merchants specific off-eBay transaction data with eBay. Our corporate policy and procedures require that if any data is shared, it is only aggregate data of sales, but not on an individual account level. Our service is built on privacy, and we respect a merchants right to keep their sales data private as well.



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Go to Paypal's main page. If you have NoScript and adblock, enable all scripting and disable adblock. reload Paypal. Check again to make sure all scripting is still enabled. If not, enable it all and reload again. Then enable adblock, left click the icon and open blockable items.

What you'll see in there is spyware and tracking devices embedded in the scripts in such a way to bypass even the hosts file. Elements (tracking cookies) blocked by default in Firefox, but when they are embedded into another script they get right through.

Open some of those scripts in a new tab via the gui of adblock plus blockable items panel... Check some of that trash out. Sleazy, yet hilarious.

Three things to understand.

1) That garbage is not in there to enhance your buying experience or to make you safer. It does neither. It certainly isn't there to safeguard your privacy. It wouldn't be there at all if they were not selling it and doing gawd only knows what? with the data...

2) It is exploitable. It has been exploited, if everyone thinks back to 2008 or so when... uhm...
...Paypal has been hacked in ways you can't imagine. laughing.gif
But they'll never admit it.

3) Regardless of whatever Paypal or ebaY may say, there is not a reason in the world to believe them.



Check your bank's website and see if they have spyware garbage embedded in some sneaky way like paypal does.





-- Edited by budnonymous on Sunday 20th of March 2011 09:47:15 AM

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Not to overlook ebaY, do the same thing there. You may have to reload several times to reveal the embedded BS, because there is a lot more of it there. omniture, yahoo pn adserver doubleclick, adclick? .. can't remember all of the crap that's in there.
Again, none of that is there to enhance a thing. Lots it it will bring your machine to a standstill.

Then on top of that, when you get to an ebay ad/description, there are even more scripts, (ebay.desc or maybe desc.ebay? -I think without looking) plus whatever spyware/tracking garbage the seller puts in their own...

This entire thing is known as behavioral marketing research data collection & analysis etc

Basically your machines are zombie bots for these greedy corps. (not just eb-pp a lot more... google is one that really comes to mind as privacy invading retards.)

FTC is going to set rules for it before long. Among other things, they are talking about a 'do not track' list similar to the 'do not call' list for the telemarketers. We all know how well that worked, eh?


-- Edited by budnonymous on Monday 21st of March 2011 07:45:59 PM

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