Tracking through emails / Web beacons / TOKENS / index.dat files? WHAT ELSE?

[CPUGEEK]

Originally Posted by leonid5000

if someone just logged into a suspended IP - then no further checks are done they just suspend any one who used this ip. That is just my opinion. i talked to 1 person who was using ebay at his company and when he got suspended 2 other people on other computers in this company got suspended as well.

Okay, were you all selling the same type of items?

[CPUGEEK]

Can I open the emails I get from my customers on ebay without them getting my ip address. I 'm talking about the emails that say from "EbayMember", I opened one on y new account Ip. I have html disabled. They are the emails that when you open them it has the customer email address in the from fielld and not beyas

[temps425]

I can only remember one thread regarding "beacon" technology, or transparent images which rounded up data. I don't know if this is true, but I don't worry about it. I just use gmail and keep my images off all together.

[CPUGEEK]

Originally Posted by temps425

I can only remember one thread regarding "beacon" technology, or transparent images which rounded up data. I don't know if this is true, but I don't worry about it. I just use gmail and keep my images off all together.

right.. I have my account set so that no images display, there are hyperlinks but thats it...

[maris23]

I have set up several new accounts at different locations, following the guide to the T.. ⊗⊗⊗⊗ address, simon cards, new bank accounts, physically shipped items for feedback, working phone numbers, etc. My point is..... alotta work!! Now that the accounts are ready to use(over 30 days and 10 feedbacks) I would like to list items from my home computer. Obviously I have changed the ip, erased cookies and have no downloaded ebay software. I have read that changing the computer name is a good idea.. along with things as minor as monitor resolution. Any other things i should consider? After all my work, I really like to get back on and stay on for good!
Thx in advance!

[ebay100]

Resolution?

Hope not ..

EB100

[whome]

I have XP and to go the extra yard, I changed my "registered to" name in system properties. I noticed that the name shows up on cookies. Unfortunately, I can't remember how I did it but after an exhaustive googling I found a method that worked. If some the techies on this board can explain how to do it simply, have at it.

[jamesy]

You need to edit the entry in the registry.

Go to "Start > Run", type regedit and click OK.

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion

and in the right pane, double click RegisteredOwner then, in the box that opens, change the name.

Reboot and it should be changed when you re-start

[bollock2ebay]

Even if u change computer name I am not sure if computer has its own unique serial number that can be traced. If u want to be completely sure buy a new computer. Also, as an extra precaution even if you set up a completely new paypal account, accept payments on a secondadary email payment address rather than the main address. That way if the new paypal account is linked through your computer to old ebay accounts, you dont compromise the new ebay account which has a different email address to the primary sign in paypal address. You see the way ebay works an ebay account has two names: the ID sign in name and the email address. On the find a member section you can use either. There is a lot of cross linking with cookies between ebay and paypal I have noticed which I will explain in my next posting

[Ballsack]

That's pretty easy and you can create a bunch of accounts with at least 10 feedback within days.

[JackNoMore]

Do you buy a lot of ebooks or just sell at a loss starting out?

[CPUGEEK]

I opened up a ebay email that was connected to a suspended account , even though the email is text only and no images can ebay stay tie my fresh account to that email and suspend me? or is the only way they can track me is by the images in email?

[aspkin]

Ebay can only track by the images in an email. If your images are disabled when reading mail then you would be okay. But if you just don't see an image, that doesn't mean there aren't any. Most tracking systems use 1x1 pixel images for tracking.

[CPUGEEK]

Originally Posted by aspkin

Ebay can only track by the images in an email. If your images are disabled when reading mail then you would be okay. But if you just don't see an image, that doesn't mean there aren't any. Most tracking systems use 1x1 pixel images for tracking.

So thats why my accounts have been getting booted. I thought I was safe since there was no images displayed and I had disabled html

[CPUGEEK]

So even if I disable html they can still track it right?

[aspkin]

You should disable images from showing to be 100% safe. I believe Gmail has a feature like this as default.

[CPUGEEK]

Originally Posted by aspkin

You should disable images from showing to be 100% safe. I believe Gmail has a feature like this as default.

Disabling HTMl doesnt disable images???

[aspkin]

Having no HTML in an email would mean you would have only text. No links, images or anything else would be there. Does that actually happen with your email provider?

[plight]

Haha, I don't even open those suspended emails. Once I get booted, I simply leave the email account alone, and I never log back into my old ebay accounts. Why would you want to read that garbage anyway.

[CPUGEEK]

old customers

[anotherguy]

While researching beacons on paypal and eBay I found this info:

When you visit most web pages on eBay, a beacon/cookie is placed for *ebayrtm.com. Seems harmless at first. But, PAYPAL uses ebayrtm.com as a subdomain for some of it's web pages. For instance, the link:

rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu8a9q5VG.DIBletXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTExcDQ1bmx qBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkAwRsA1dTMQ--/SIG=12kg151md/EXP=1184300349/**https%3a//srv.main.ebayrtm.com/clk%3fRtmClk%26m=13879%26lid=180561

Will refer you to this web page:

paypal.com/idprotection?ssPageName=CMDV:AB

Paypal and eBay sharing the same remote server for beacon.cookie placement is dangerous for us. Mandatory cookie removal will potentially prevent the beacon/cookie combination from identifying you and linking accounts. Hope this helps someone.

[Chris Hanson]

Thats why i always clean cookies with my military defense secure cleaner before logging in