1. Open any web browser
2. Perform a search with a long search string, for example:
beta (ancestral, ankh, moon, badlands, balance, bayou, berserk, lotus, blaze, braingeyser, camouflage, castle, chaos, chaoslace, cockatrice, consecrate, “copy artifact”, crusade, tomb, darkpact, “death ward”, attorney) -hp -pld -mp -sp -lp -ex -moderate -heavy -dmg -damaged -ce -ie -light -slight -pl -played
3. Open the first 10 items returned by the search in a new tab (e.g. middle click). The URLs will look something like this:
ebay.com/itm/195935766812?hash=item2d9eae891c%3Ag%3A3OUAAOSwlZJk2sE3&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAACAMlcelyqon...
Result:
Some of the items display an error:
"This listing (#) has been removed, or this item is not available."
Notes:
- Deleting the 'hash' parameter in the URL fixes the problem
- This started about 2 months ago
- It happens in every browser
It seems the problem is with the long 'hash' parameter in the URL, which I am guessing includes an encoded version of the search string for tracker purposes.
The site is essentially broken for me - I can't search with shorter URLs, and I view hundreds of items a day, so manually deleting the 'hash' from the URL is not a feasible workaround.
Please fix this 😞
