06-05-2019 03:45 PM
I HATE, I repeat HATE Sponsored Listings. They are ruining my eBay experience, and you can best believe that I will NEVER purchase a Sponsored item.
I want a way to turn them OFF. I do not want to see the same overpriced item at the top, middle, and bottom of every page of results, especially when I have specific sort criteria. What is the point of 'newly listed' or 'price low to high' if the first results are the Sponsored Listing? I guarantee you that seeing these same listings over and over is not going to weaken my resolve and make me want to purchase these random items. Au contraire, mon frère. Any seller that makes frequent use of Sponsored Listings is going to go on my blacklist. You people are the worst.
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06-06-2019 09:15 AM
By the way, I think I may have found a workaround that doesn't require ad blocking extensions. I am creating a blacklist of sellers who use Sponsored Listings, and using the Advanced Search option to exclude them from my search results. So far it seems to be working, but if this starts to proliferate to the point where there are too many spammers to keep track of, I will have to resort to ad blocking software.
06-05-2019 03:51 PM
Try an ad blocker if your browser supports extensions.
With an ad blocking extension added to my browser, sponsored listings do not appear at the top of the search results; the listings just appear in the correct sort position.
I use AdBlock and Ad Block Plus, but there are others. Google "ad blocker" plus your browser version to find some.
06-05-2019 03:56 PM
06-05-2019 04:13 PM
The ad blocking extensions I am familiar with are free.
Many forms of media are funded in part by advertising revenue; it is a good alternative to a subscription model for many things that would otherwise be hard to fund. I am happy if I can avoid the ads and still reap the benefits, but I do not necessarily begrudge the advertisers their revenue.
Advertising that can be easily filtered out is not particularly intrusive.
06-05-2019 08:36 PM
Agree with you 100%--so glad you posted.
06-06-2019 04:04 AM - edited 06-06-2019 04:07 AM
>>Isn't it disgusting that we have to resort to these measures?
It is the nature of the internet these days, is not just eBay with ads, and the need to have to "resort to these measures" is partly due to the fact that they have structured things to make it "easy button" for users who can't or wont learn anything about how things work and want an easy button for everything - making things easy button opens up security vulnerabilities and ability for things like ad providers to annoy you. Adobe flash, PDF, and many other vulnerabilities and exploits in the past arose because of this easy button mentality (make everything one click but the easy button software approaches got too complex, and the producers too lazy to control all the exploit pathways)
I have to pull levers, edit scripts, configure rules, etc on a half dozen tools and addons to make most sites work. As a result, I don't see any ads, have no worries about viruses or malware without running any anti-virus, and fully control my browsing experience. That is the price I pay for using the internet.
You can't have it both ways - you take what you are served up, or you take control by utilizing "measures" to control your internet experience.
An adblocker is the solution to your issue with sponsored ads (there are other "measures" such as the ones I use, but all the same idea - block or mask the desired content, and an adblocker is the easy button approach that requires next to no learning curve)
Adblock Plus or Adblock or uBlock other free adblocker with the Easylist ruleset added (if not already included) should handle sponsored listings (along with 50,000 other ads and annoyances across the internet)
06-06-2019 04:35 AM
"I HATE, I repeat HATE Sponsored Listings".
Are you sure what you are seeing are sponsored listings, or are they promoted listings? Sponsored listings will take you off ebay to buy directly from the advertiser's store.
Promoted listings are listings a seller pays to have shown on results and listing pages. Usually they show up in crowded category search pages, and yes they can override a search setting Ex. Price: Lowest...
06-06-2019 04:43 AM - edited 06-06-2019 04:44 AM
@mudshark61369 wrote:Promoted listings are listings a seller pays to have shown on results and listing pages. Usually they show up in crowded category search pages, and yes they can override a search setting Ex. Price: Lowest...
Can you add those @berserkerplanet and all-in-one your PRfilter?
06-06-2019 05:11 AM
06-06-2019 08:19 AM
06-06-2019 09:15 AM
By the way, I think I may have found a workaround that doesn't require ad blocking extensions. I am creating a blacklist of sellers who use Sponsored Listings, and using the Advanced Search option to exclude them from my search results. So far it seems to be working, but if this starts to proliferate to the point where there are too many spammers to keep track of, I will have to resort to ad blocking software.
06-06-2019 09:30 AM
Excluding sellers will work if you only have a few names to exclude.
Less than a dozen, perhaps.
I do not know what the maximum number of excluded sellers is for a given search, but at some point you may find your searches returning zero results. If that happens, drop one of the names and try your search again, as you may have reached the maximum number.
You may also run into searches returning zero results if you have too many search terms (usually exclusion terms).
See here:
06-06-2019 09:33 AM - edited 06-06-2019 09:37 AM
That's a clever workaround, but I think (could be wrong) you only get 10 seller exclusions that way, although in a narrow search that might be enough depending on the category.
Might work for a time, but Sponsored listings are the way of things now, and there will be more and more "spammers" as time goes on.
I'm one of them - every one of my listings is sponsored, yet I filter out the sponsored search results when searching. Go figure.
06-06-2019 10:47 AM
Maybe I just need to stop buying on eBay. If it's just going to be wall-to-wall ads, I have better things to do with my time.
06-06-2019 02:51 PM - edited 06-06-2019 02:54 PM
New Ranged Price filter bookmarklet: PRfilt v0.2
Removes search results that are ranged price listings, and now can remove sponsored listings too. Configurable to remove both types or either type, and can also display number of results removed in the browser titlebar.
javaXscript:(function(){var%20ver=0.2;var%20hpr=1;var%20hsl=1;var%20rr=0;var%20j=1;
var%20loc=document.location.href.match(/^https?:\/\/www\.ebay\.(com|ca|co\.uk|com\.au|in|de|at|fr|
it|nl|es|ch|ie|ph|pl|be|com\.hk|com\.my|com\.sg)\/(dsc|sch)\/i\.html/i);
if(loc==null)return;if(loc[0].match(/dsc/i)!=null){
var%20trg=document.body.querySelectorAll('li[id^="item"].sresult');if(trg.length==0)return;
var%20els='li[id^="item"].sresult%20span>span[class*="prRange"]';
var%20gps='[class$="vtitle"]%20a.vip';
var%20spl='li[id^="item"].sresult%20div[class*="promoted-"]>span';}else{
var%20trg=document.body.querySelectorAll('li[id^="srp-river-results-listing"].s-item');
if(trg.length==0)return;
var%20els='li[id^="srp-river-results-listing"]%20span.s-item__price>span.DEFAULT';
var%20gps='div.s-item__info>a.s-item__link';
var%20spl='li[id^="srp-river-results-listing"]
%20div[class*="s-item__title--tag"]>span[class*="LIGHT_BACKGROUND"]';}
for(k=0;k<trg.length;k++)if(hpr&&trg[k].querySelector(els)!=null){
var%20url=trg[k].querySelector(gps).href;trg[k].innerHTML='<a%20href="'+url+'"style="float:right;
color:green;padding:5px;">[%20Removed%20Ranged%20Price%20result%20'+(j++)+'%20]</a>';rr++;}
else%20if(hsl&&trg[k].querySelector(spl)!=null){
var%20url=trg[k].querySelector(gps).href;trg[k].innerHTML='<a%20href="'+url+'"style="float:right;
color:green;padding:5px;">[%20Removed%20Sponsored%20result%20'+(j++)+'%20]</a>';rr++;}
if(rr>0)document.title+="%20%20%C2%BBPRSLfilt:%20"+rr+"%20Results%20Removed%C2%AB";return;})();
As per usual, create a new bookmark, copy and paste all the above code in the location field, remove the X from javaXscript at the beginning of the code, name the bookmarklet eBayPRfilt0.2 (or whatever you want), and good to go.
To use:
Click the bookmarklet after a page of search results has loaded completely and it will strip out results with Price Ranges and/or Sponsored Listing results (depending on how you configure the bookmarklet)
To configure:
After pasting the above code in the bookmark location field you can edit a couple of the variables to control how the bookmarklet will behave. All configurable options are on by default.
[I did the rr thing that way to save bytes - I'm an assembly programmer at heart and minimizing code is the mantra. Would have required another var and another conditional to disable it otherwise. One reason to leave that feature enabled is it gives you a visual when the bookmarklet is working in case eBay changes something and breaks the detection scheme it uses. If you want it to always display something in the titlebar, even if zero results were removed, change if(rr>0) to if(rr<0) near the very end of the code.]
The bookmarklet can be downloaded in ready to use form here:
The exact same code as the bookmarklet in the code above, but a bit easier to obtain and install by just bookmarking it from my webspace https://berserkerplanet.altervista.org/code/bookmarklets/
Final note:
Way too complex to make a bookmarklet into a full featured program, but if you want to use it to sometimes hide Sponsored listings and not ranged price results, or vice versa, you can make multiple versions of the bookmarklet, change the configurable variable values in each one, name them differently, and have one that deals with Ranged Price, one that deals with sponsored, and one that does both.
(I hate you reda3615. Hope you are amused :grin)