Ebay Adchoice - Another Profiling System?

[Wildie]

they got a cheek opt in by default they need to change that over here and pdq, it`s not the not making money is it just plain greed..

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Wildie

they got a cheek opt in by default they need to change that over here and pdq, it`s not the not making money is it just plain greed..

I have every intention of leaving or not using any company or website that uses that sort of system. I hope VM and Phorm are reading this thread.

[MovedGoalPosts]

So this system applies only to your visits to ebay? They are using your visits to the ebay site to show advets on the ebay site? Is that so bad? By going to any site you give away information to that website owner as to what you are doing during your browsing of it. All ebay are doing it making a more obvious use of those statistics when you are on their site.

Or am I missing something

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Rob

So this system applies only to your visits to ebay? They are using your visits to the ebay site to show advets on the ebay site? Is that so bad? By going to any site you give away information to that website owner as to what you are doing during your browsing of it. All ebay are doing it making a more obvious use of those statistics when you are on their site.

Or am I missing something

No they also pop adverts into partner sites as well. Which means they are keep track of the sites you visit via cookies.

Advertising Preferences

Use my information to show me relevant ads from eBay's ad network partners
Use my information to show me relevant eBay ads on other sites

That to me means they were going to track my movements across sites.

We ether put our foot down and say no to all this tracking crap or role over and let them shaft us.

Thanks to all who pointed out the Advertising Preferences- they are now disabled in my account.

[Raistlin]

Disabled in mine also, thanks guys

[Tims]

I've just turned mine off, thanks guys... I can't believe it is opt-in by default, I hate this type of thing.

[Sirius]

Sorry but i feel so strongly about profiling that i dumped the gits, And i will do the same to ANY other company that does what they intended to do.

[icsys]

I've got to admit I have been slow on the uptake on this one.
I don't use eBay that often!

I note from ElReg the following:

From 13 July, new users, will be served "relevant" ads. The service is opt-out - if you don't like it you must change your eBay account preferences.
Existing eBay users should already have received an email warning them of the changes, which will come in from from 13 August.

Having now just 'opted-out' hopefully, as an existing user, I have escaped any profiling.

On the subject of AdChoice, eBay had this to say:

"AdChoice provides a more personalised and relevant shopping experience for our users, it is based on your previous searches and items bought. Participation in this programme is entirely optional and does not involve disclosure of personal information to any third parties. You can change your advertising preferences in My eBay at any time.

eBay views the protection of our users' privacy as an extremely important principle and we do not disclose personal information to third parties for marketing purposes without a user’s explicit consent. In the revised Privacy Policy, you'll see a new Marketing section that describes in more detail our collection and use of information for these and all our marketing programmes.”

From the following extract from the eBay 'AdChoice' page it is easy to see how this can be likened to Phorm:

You have choices about whether we use your information in this way. You can tell us not to share any of your anonymous information with our ad network partners and you can tell us not to use your information to show you relevant eBay ads on other websites. Anywhere you see the advertising link, you can click on it to control how your information is used. If you opt out of AdChoice, you'll still see ads, they just won't be tailored to your interests.