An ad link on Ebay pages, which links to -
I'm surprised Ebay allow such a scam on their website, or maybe they don't even know.
Thanks to ad-flinging networks, it's impossible for most sites to know what appears under their banner.
I hope you told them. Unlike FB, they're quite good at removing scams.
Dave Plowman (News) laid this down on his screen :
Ebay looked into it and they say the link is from my browser, no from Ebay. Any ideas how to proceed?
Try a different browser and see what you get. It can be that you have some kind of add replacement worm on the machine. After all if its possible to use add blocking its just as possible to have it redirect to another site.
Try it from other computers and maybe a mobile device as well. If the add is still the same I'd suggest its Ebay who are talking out of their bums. Brian
Malwarebytes is pretty good at expunging this kind of stuff.
Tim
Yes it's 2021 and you need to get with the program. Firefox (or forks) plus uBlock Origin, NoScript and Ghostery. Disable all the scripting s**te as a 1st step and slowly enable the minimum to make the web site work.
Yes it makes browsing harder but you should be less likely to get scammed. But if you are already clicking on adverts being displayed your probably your own worst enemy and there's little hope for you.
I have 4 plug ins on all of my browsers (edge, Chrome and firefox)
and they are
Duckduckgo essentials Ghostery Privacy Badger (from EFF) uBlock Origin
On my mobiles I use DuckDuckGo broswer, Firefox focus and Ghostery browser (the above 4 plugins are not available on Android.)
Thankls for the tip on NoScript, I will look at that.
Ublock can disable javascript On Linux that's all I need
Yep, saw that one myself. Wasn't on ebay tho, it was emailed to me.
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