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Originally Posted by OfficialGenius  Yes. People here are saying that they found out that ebay and paypal know when you sign into your email accounts even if you don't click any of their messages. What I would do is just sign into each of the emails using a proxy. Easier and less hassle. |
I don't think eBay would know you online when you just sign into your email account. But I think you are talking about eBay tracking through emails.
One of the ways eBay uses to track is Cookies. Cookie is not a program. It is simple text file, containing user information, created by a website and stored on a user's computer. When the user visits the website, the cookie allows the website to retrieve information about the user's previous visit to the website.
This is how eBay cookie works:
1. You type in eBay sign in page, eBay item link, or click to respond an eBay email message. The browser you are using will then send a message to eBay's server, asking it for its web page.
2. While the browser is "talking" to eBay's server, it is also looking on your computer for any cookie files that eBay has placed there. If it finds any eBay cookie files, it will send the IDs of the files to eBay's server.
3. Next, eBay will respond to your server in one of two ways:
1. If your server did not send any cookies because you did not have any, the server will think that you have not visited eBay before.
-The eBay server will create an ID for you (and keep a matching one) and send it back to your computer in the answer to your server.
-Your computer will store it on your hard disk. This is the cookie data.
2. If your server did send some eBay cookie files, because you have visited eBay in the past and it has deposited cookies on your computer, eBay will match the ID of the cookies with the ID of your data stored at eBay.
Hope this helps clear some confusion.
