Slightly OT: New ads on ebay item pages with audio?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

It's disgusting what Ebay is doing lately. Cluttering up item pages that you paid good money for and worked hard on with Ads, Competitors Links, Ads for other Ebay items that are not yours, streaming google ads. Blocking sniper services either intentionally or unintentionally because of all the extraneous bloat they have to fight through.

I don't think I've had a snipe bid on one of my items in a month. Used to be at least 50% of bids came in the last 15 seconds. For some reason those have disappeared for me.

I got blocked from an Ebay message board for discussing the details of a deadbeat bidder, without even mentioning their ID, name or any other information about them.

Sorry for the vent and hijacking your thread, just frustrated by them lately.

To answer your question, if you have FireFox and Ad Blocker Plus, you should be able to at least block out the video ads. Any of that other stuff, I don't think is blockable.

I disabled Google Ads I had on my own websites recently when I noticed they were constantly playing videos and slowing everything down. It's not worth the few extra bucks and the information they provide to me anymore if you're going to be slowing my entire operation down on me at the same time.

I can't count the number of times I have been approached with opportunities to place crazy ads on our board. Some think they are crazy already, but they could get much crazier (and won't while I am here). I can't stand ads in the middle of pages, jumping around and doing crazy things every where....It makes no sense to me.