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what can ebay see and not see
 

If I am browsing the web and I go to this website that I need to enter my email address to get access to say disney.com or anything of the sort and I enter an email address associated with a banned ebay account can ebay see that? Like say I have my new up and running ebay account in one window and open that website in another window and enter my banned email address to gain access to this other website...can ebay see that? thanks

I was going to ask the exact same question. Let's wait to see what the others say.

IF they can, use one user account on your computer for your e bay & another user account for your browsing as the cookies etc are different. Just a thought.

Naw they can't see that - way too much - I log into banned eb associated e-mails all the time and this site while I look at a new active eb account. You must be careful NOT to e-mail eb from your banned account.

imo it's better to keep your eb acc on a different pc or at least under a different user on the same pc. you go there, look your eb, sell stuff, close it, disconnect the eb IP, then go to your joy pc to surf whateverelse. this way it's harder to make a silly mistake.

Sure - keeping everything separate minimizes risk of errors.

Thats exactly what i do, works perfect.

How can Ebay see what you put on other sites? I'm paranoid - but really - let's not start chasing shadows people, we have enough to deal with without that!!

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I have a totaly separate computer for everything I do with ebay,,, if they can do that thats way out of control... makes you kind of wonder though...

I operate in the same way. I have a selling laptop that I do all my selling and buying on the site. It's light to carry anywhere but tough enough that I can step on it without fear of damaging it.

Agreed, Just paranoid :boink:

Ebay can't see what you put on other sites, or read any other site cookies,they can only retrieved and read cookies that they've set themselves. Ebay can't see Paypal cookies and vice versa, because PP and EB have different domain name. HOWEVER, since they belong to the same company they can track and link you in many ways: compare cookies in the backend, storing paypal info on ebay cookies and storing ebay info on paypal cookies etc..

If anyone want to see what else EB/PP can see beside the cookies and IP just google "http server variables"

We digging this thread out of the dungeon of 2011...

Ebay can see everything, close your curtains.

I never close my curtains. And yes I walk around butt naked for the ladies to watch.

What GRANNY said, and why are you mixing user accts with your personal stuff? Too easy to make a mistake. I use diff. user account for personal stuff and all EB accts. I NEVER use any email other than logging on to the particular eb account. That's safe!

Sorry didn't see the date, my bad!

Amazon currently uses this, eBay - as far as I know - does not. But this can give you a good idea what they can see if they want to put in the effort to do so:

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Overkill inc.

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