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Re: Personal Hotspot / Tethering issue
 

Just using a different browser is enough so long as the app isn't installed :)

None of that applies to tethering though as a browser on the laptop is usually used it's only if using your phone itself as the device

Re: Personal Hotspot / Tethering issue
 

Thanks, James. I just want to be sure I understand before I do anything silly. I have 1 mobile phone with 5 different browsers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Opera). I reset my IP on each one by airplane mode and check via IP Burger as I've been building 4 accounts in the background just looking, bidding and listing for a month. I'm constrained by budget hence the single IP unfortunately.

Can eBay link if its done through my browser? I know the IP is the only downfall but can they read anything about the device and the likes through the browser apps?

Is laptop better to go through? I can start building another 5 by laptop and I should have 5 secure for next year as well.

Thanks!

Re: Personal Hotspot / Tethering issue
 

laptop/desktop is preferred for me anyhow vs cellphone use

Re: Personal Hotspot / Tethering issue
 

What meaningful details of a phone can they see when it's being used as a hotspot from OP's macbook because my understanding is it was obsoletely nothing and why it's worked so well for endless sellers for years now .... until this one thread.

Re: Personal Hotspot / Tethering issue
 

When phone is used as a hotspot, i'm pretty certain that no details about the phone are seen by eb - you're right about that.

Re: Personal Hotspot / Tethering issue
 

Will drop a few notes which might be useful, might be not.

One detail not related but hear me out. Paypal used to do some interesting security precaution if internet speed is low. Not sure if they does this now as it was 2 years ago when i was messing with this. So what i found out while camping and sitting on a low speed net - if speed is less than 25 mbps then they ask sms verification to log in. If faster - password was enough. So maybe, just maybe, EB has something to do with a net speed also, but it does not makes more sense as 5G should be even faster..

Another thing - why to mess with overcomplicated technology? Nobody realy knows what new phones can or can not, so why not to buy an USB modem - just put your sim on it and thats it. That thing is not super smart and can provide zero info about PC or about itself as it does not has anything to provide in a first place.

Also take a look which apps can use mobile data - i keep all of my apps OFF on mobile data. Also location tracking is OFF too. Also on home wi-fi i have set that phone can not join the wi-fi automatically when it is accessable because from some apps behaviour can say that part of route can go through home wifi even if phone is connected to mobile data..

So just a few things to think about..

Re: Personal Hotspot / Tethering issue
 

Hi guys just thought I’d give this one a nudge and see if there are any ebay uk users successfully creating uk ebay accounts with 5G yet via hotspot/tethering specifically with IPhone.

I thought I’d try again using 5G hotspot thinking it’s older now with more IP addresses on rotation (in theory) but boom still getting banned.

Using the EXACT same account creation set up but with 4g the accounts are fine.

Re: Personal Hotspot / Tethering issue
 

5G does not offer more IP addresses nor influences rotation frequency.

IMO, it has nothing to do with why you're being suspended, look for another breach.

Re: Personal Hotspot / Tethering issue
 

I’m following the EXACT same account creation method for both 4G and 5G so there are no breaches to investigate - the account creation is the same.

I will rephrase my question:

Is anyone creating UK Ebay seller accounts using a 5G IPhone hotspot / Tethering to create new accounts successfully ?

Re: Personal Hotspot / Tethering issue
 

Nope I’m using an iPhone 12 to create accounts and having no issues with networks I’m using.

Today I tried testing three IP rotations but all are in Scotland. Has anyone created accounts using three network? I’ve not created an eBay account yet using three but can’t seem to get U.K. ips from three.

What network are you using on iPhone 14?