How to remove item suggestions from your eBay Feed
Whenever you visit an eBay marketplace, a list of suggested items is displayed in your feed on the start page if you are logged in to your eBay account.
While that sounds useful at first, it seems seriously flawed for many eBay users as items may be displayed in it that you have long lost interest in.
For instance, two years ago I searched for Martial Arts equipment on eBay but have not have searched for it since. Still, up to this day, eBay suggests gloves, pads and other related equipment in the feed when I open the site.
The same is true for Super Nintendo consoles and games and several other that I used to search for in the past but not anymore.
What makes this even more puzzling is that boardgames are not suggested at all even though I have searched in the past months for them on eBay.
Good news is that you can modify what is being suggested by eBay on the service's start page. A click on the number next to "Interests you follow" on the startpage (look on the screenshot above for pointers) opens the list of items that eBay suggests to you.
Tip: you can load https://www.ebay.com/myb/SavedSearches right away as well as it opens the page on eBay. (replace ebay.com with a country code domain if you don't use the .com version of eBay).
Hover the mouse over an item in the list and options to run a search or to refine it become available. If you select refine, you are taken to a new page where you can click on following to remove the interest from your feed.
Note that you may be taken directly to the "give your interest a nickname" page first. There you simply click on cancel to be taken to the page where you can unfollow that interest.
Once you are done, only items of interest should be displayed in your feed. If you remove all interests, none will be suggested at all by eBay.
Tip: To make this easier on you, load http://www.ebay.com/usr/[your username]/all-follows to display all interests on a single page. There you can unfollow interests with a single click which speeds up the process significantly.
- Go to http://www.ebay.com/usr/[your eBay username]/all-follows
- Go to https://www.ebay.com/myb/SavedSearches
It is easy enough to add new interests to your account. To do so run a search or browser to a specific category that you are interested in.
An option to "follow this search" is displayed on top of the listing. A click on it adds it as a interest to your account.
When you go back to the start page, you will notice that it has been filled with suggestions from that search or category.
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.