stronger browser security...

[pingpong517]

http://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/Stronger-Browser-Security-Standards-Ahead/ba-p/27389922

OK i'll admit.. I have no idea what this all means....can someone , in a nut shell, give me a version i can understand?

[pingpong517]

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@d-k_treasures wrote:

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@sandyoutlet wrote:

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@readabouthorses wrote:

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

This will give any buyer using Chrome a warning of an NON SECURE page..

That is distressing to many people. It's for the use of HTML coding. 

So in the post by Sweet Tea or the link here: http://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/Stronger-Browser-Security-Standards-Ahead/ba-p/27389922

There's a program/link to test your listings..

If they have HTML, you can edit it out and your buyers will not see the warning on Chrome.. 

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So I'm guessing you are giving that company the same permission to access your listings/account that you do with a third party listing service? Because when I tried it they wanted my User ID and password to eBay.

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Thanks for your comment. We partnered with i-ways to help identify listings that contain HTTP content. We asked them to use a sign-in token to ensure that your full listing compliance report was not public to anyone else. You can view single item IDs without signing in, but if you want to see your entire list of inventory, it requires a sign in. Thanks! 

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So why would they need the ebay login/password?

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it downloads all your listing at once,then checks them..give you a report...showing any issues....

[pingpong517]

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@a_c_green wrote:

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@pingpong517 wrote:

OK i'll admit.. I have no idea what this all means....can someone , in a nut shell, give me a version i can understand?

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I can have a bash at it. Let me try to boil it down to a bulleted list...

• About half the users out there are using Google Chrome, so eBay wants to play nice with it.
• In this coming October, Google will be updating the browser to display a "Not Secure" message if the header is showing a web page that's either not using a secure connection (i.e. a web page beginning with "https:" rather than "http:"), or a secure connection that's got some insecure (http: ) code inside it. 
• Web pages with addresses beginning with "https:" are secure (such as what you see for on-line banking and such)
• Web pages with addresses beginning with "http:" are not secure. It's possible to download something nefarious via an http: connection that would be blocked by a secure https: connection.
• It's possible to embed http: code within a page that itself is https: secure. That could be a Bad Thing™.
• eBay recognizes that a user could upload http: code within their product descriptions that could cause trouble within eBay's https: web pages, such as links to external sources.
• If that happens, the new Google Chrome will detect the lurking http: code, and flash a "Not Secure" warning across the top of the eBay viewer's screen.
• eBay believes that this may cause undue alarm among potential eBay buyers, causing some of them to become dizzy or lightheaded, and have to go lie down for a while, thus preventing them from buying things. eBay says that the "Not Secure" warning may cause you to suffer a decrease in conversion rates as a result. (When that happens to me, I recommend Metamucil.)
• Therefore, if eBay finds that you've got http: coding in your listing, they will hide it behind a button in the desktop view, telling users to click the button in order to see your description.
• This doesn't affect mobile viewers, for unexplained reasons. (Possibly their view of your description is already hidden behind a button anyway.)
• Therefore the best thing to do is ensure that you don't have http: coding in your listing. Something called the "i-ways tool" (here) can inspect your listings for you.
• Therefore, when it comes to listing layout, the K.I.S.S. rule ("Keep It Simple, Stupid") is becoming more important all the time.

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wow thanks...tha nut shell pass through well like a big nut shell.. lol

i tryed the tool:i-ways and it said they wer all http.... but no alerts or some kind of "gotta fix" so another tested one listing and they said it was fine... so sounds like i'm fine!...will better than average looking, but whole nother story...  so i am not going to worry, but it sure opens a kettle of what the fish is this about announcement!....

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went back and did it again..and now i see they were all https..so good for me... the rest of you's are on your own! lol

[rainbowcolorz]

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@sodelight wrote:
I have no idea what any of this HTTP thing refers to. Ebay's info page does nothing to clarify. Why can't they just show some examples of what a HTTP listing that will be an issue looks like! There's absolutely no way I feel comfortable giving my user ID and password to some third party company. I can imagine that company becoming a hacking target, knowing they've obtained possibly millions of ebay user passwords. I don't believe that when you disable their permissions, your password would be removed. It's like those who think when you remove facebook posts they're gone forever...NOT!

So nice to know with it being hard enough to get sales here, it will become even harder! Ebay can't even figure out that one shouldn't be charged for bulk relists, and I'm supposed to believe they can handle this atrocity!

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@sodelight, I agree with you completely!!!!   I just asked someone I know if they trust this i-ways will never get hacked.  I sure hope not.  Oh boy, as if we don't have enough to worry about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pikabo-icu]

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@rainbowcolorz wrote:

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

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@rainbowcolorz wrote:

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@a_c_green wrote:

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@pingpong517 wrote:

OK i'll admit.. I have no idea what this all means....can someone , in a nut shell, give me a version i can understand?

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I can have a bash at it. Let me try to boil it down to a bulleted list...

• About half the users out there are using Google Chrome, so eBay wants to play nice with it.
• In this coming October, Google will be updating the browser to display a "Not Secure" message if the header is showing a web page that's either not using a secure connection (i.e. a web page beginning with "https:" rather than "http:"), or a secure connection that's got some insecure (http: ) code inside it. 
• Web pages with addresses beginning with "https:" are secure (such as what you see for on-line banking and such)
• Web pages with addresses beginning with "http:" are not secure. It's possible to download something nefarious via an http: connection that would be blocked by a secure https: connection.
• It's possible to embed http: code within a page that itself is https: secure. That could be a Bad Thing™.
• eBay recognizes that a user could upload http: code within their product descriptions that could cause trouble within eBay's https: web pages, such as links to external sources.
• If that happens, the new Google Chrome will detect the lurking http: code, and flash a "Not Secure" warning across the top of the eBay viewer's screen.
• eBay believes that this may cause undue alarm among potential eBay buyers, causing some of them to become dizzy or lightheaded, and have to go lie down for a while, thus preventing them from buying things. eBay says that the "Not Secure" warning may cause you to suffer a decrease in conversion rates as a result. (When that happens to me, I recommend Metamucil.)
• Therefore, if eBay finds that you've got http: coding in your listing, they will hide it behind a button in the desktop view, telling users to click the button in order to see your description.
• This doesn't affect mobile viewers, for unexplained reasons. (Possibly their view of your description is already hidden behind a button anyway.)
• Therefore the best thing to do is ensure that you don't have http: coding in your listing. Something called the "i-ways tool" (here) can inspect your listings for you.
• Therefore, when it comes to listing layout, the K.I.S.S. rule ("Keep It Simple, Stupid") is becoming more important all the time.

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Wow.  @a_c_green, thanks for all that info.  I bookmarked your post and got that blue box that said Success Bookmarked!  

But where did it bookmark your post to???  

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Your Profile/Settings/SUBSCRIPTIONS & NOTIFICATIONS/BookMarks

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Thanks but  when I clicked that link /SUBSCRIPTIONS & NOTIFICATIONS/ I got a message that said: You do not have sufficient privileges for this resource or its parent to perform this action.

Click your browser's Back button to continue.

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wow that stinks..."You do not have sufficient privileges" and they said call your parent...lol ..i just wonder what you have to do to have a place for a bookmark?... wahoo!

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Perhaps that's to MY bookmarks.. Sorry.. 

If you go to your profile>settings>subscriptions & notifications> Bookmarks will be a choice in the menu.

@rainbowcolorz

[omgitlightsup]

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@bubbleman2010 wrote:

In a nutshell since over half the ebay buyers use Chrome as a browser ( according to ebay ) if you don't register with a company in Germany and share your ID and password with them so they can check your listings your sales might decrease due to buyers thinking your listing are unsecure.....

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so is this more about international selling? or US also?

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and then ..don't use chrome?  it says that the http thing is removed? or replaced? see i'm soo confused.

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"Not secure" does not mean that anything is "insecure" or that the buyer's information is at risk. It just means the browser is reminding the user that some content is being transmitted through the ether in "plain view."

If you use a browser other than chrome, the same is true; the browser just won't warn you about it.

Transactions like PayPal and credit card payments are always going to be encrypted.

[d-k_treasures]

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@d-k_treasures wrote:

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@sandyoutlet wrote:

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@readabouthorses wrote:

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

This will give any buyer using Chrome a warning of an NON SECURE page..

That is distressing to many people. It's for the use of HTML coding. 

So in the post by Sweet Tea or the link here: http://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/Stronger-Browser-Security-Standards-Ahead/ba-p/27389922

There's a program/link to test your listings..

If they have HTML, you can edit it out and your buyers will not see the warning on Chrome.. 

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So I'm guessing you are giving that company the same permission to access your listings/account that you do with a third party listing service? Because when I tried it they wanted my User ID and password to eBay.

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Thanks for your comment. We partnered with i-ways to help identify listings that contain HTTP content. We asked them to use a sign-in token to ensure that your full listing compliance report was not public to anyone else. You can view single item IDs without signing in, but if you want to see your entire list of inventory, it requires a sign in. Thanks! 

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So why would they need the ebay login/password?

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it downloads all your listing at once,then checks them..give you a report...showing any issues....

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Again - why would they need your ebay PASSWORD?

[pingpong517]

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@omgitlightsup wrote:

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@bubbleman2010 wrote:

In a nutshell since over half the ebay buyers use Chrome as a browser ( according to ebay ) if you don't register with a company in Germany and share your ID and password with them so they can check your listings your sales might decrease due to buyers thinking your listing are unsecure.....

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so is this more about international selling? or US also?

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and then ..don't use chrome?  it says that the http thing is removed? or replaced? see i'm soo confused.

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"Not secure" does not mean that anything is "insecure" or that the buyer's information is at risk. It just means the browser is reminding the user that some content is being transmitted through the ether in "plain view."

If you use a browser other than chrome, the same is true; the browser just won't warn you about it.

Transactions like PayPal and credit card payments are always going to be encrypted.

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yes im getting it all now..thanks

[d-k_treasures]

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@omgitlightsup wrote:

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@bubbleman2010 wrote:

In a nutshell since over half the ebay buyers use Chrome as a browser ( according to ebay ) if you don't register with a company in Germany and share your ID and password with them so they can check your listings your sales might decrease due to buyers thinking your listing are unsecure.....

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so is this more about international selling? or US also?

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and then ..don't use chrome?  it says that the http thing is removed? or replaced? see i'm soo confused.

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"Not secure" does not mean that anything is "insecure" or that the buyer's information is at risk. It just means the browser is reminding the user that some content is being transmitted through the ether in "plain view."

If you use a browser other than chrome, the same is true; the browser just won't warn you about it.

Transactions like PayPal and credit card payments are always going to be encrypted.

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All of the browsers a while ago have always warned/asked you if you wanted to see non-secure items when you are on a secure page. 

And you could always say no.

But seeing this is picking up the ebay photos, well .......... ebay - clean up your act before releasing something. What happens to people who don't come to the boards? What are they going to think when they see the ebay thumbnails in that report?

[rainbowcolorz]

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@rainbowcolorz wrote:

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

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@rainbowcolorz wrote:

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@a_c_green wrote:

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@pingpong517 wrote:

OK i'll admit.. I have no idea what this all means....can someone , in a nut shell, give me a version i can understand?

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I can have a bash at it. Let me try to boil it down to a bulleted list...

• About half the users out there are using Google Chrome, so eBay wants to play nice with it.
• In this coming October, Google will be updating the browser to display a "Not Secure" message if the header is showing a web page that's either not using a secure connection (i.e. a web page beginning with "https:" rather than "http:"), or a secure connection that's got some insecure (http: ) code inside it. 
• Web pages with addresses beginning with "https:" are secure (such as what you see for on-line banking and such)
• Web pages with addresses beginning with "http:" are not secure. It's possible to download something nefarious via an http: connection that would be blocked by a secure https: connection.
• It's possible to embed http: code within a page that itself is https: secure. That could be a Bad Thing™.
• eBay recognizes that a user could upload http: code within their product descriptions that could cause trouble within eBay's https: web pages, such as links to external sources.
• If that happens, the new Google Chrome will detect the lurking http: code, and flash a "Not Secure" warning across the top of the eBay viewer's screen.
• eBay believes that this may cause undue alarm among potential eBay buyers, causing some of them to become dizzy or lightheaded, and have to go lie down for a while, thus preventing them from buying things. eBay says that the "Not Secure" warning may cause you to suffer a decrease in conversion rates as a result. (When that happens to me, I recommend Metamucil.)
• Therefore, if eBay finds that you've got http: coding in your listing, they will hide it behind a button in the desktop view, telling users to click the button in order to see your description.
• This doesn't affect mobile viewers, for unexplained reasons. (Possibly their view of your description is already hidden behind a button anyway.)
• Therefore the best thing to do is ensure that you don't have http: coding in your listing. Something called the "i-ways tool" (here) can inspect your listings for you.
• Therefore, when it comes to listing layout, the K.I.S.S. rule ("Keep It Simple, Stupid") is becoming more important all the time.

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Wow.  @a_c_green, thanks for all that info.  I bookmarked your post and got that blue box that said Success Bookmarked!  

But where did it bookmark your post to???  

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Your Profile/Settings/SUBSCRIPTIONS & NOTIFICATIONS/BookMarks

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Thanks but  when I clicked that link /SUBSCRIPTIONS & NOTIFICATIONS/ I got a message that said: You do not have sufficient privileges for this resource or its parent to perform this action.

Click your browser's Back button to continue.

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wow that stinks..."You do not have sufficient privileges" and they said call your parent...lol ..i just wonder what you have to do to have a place for a bookmark?... wahoo!

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Perhaps that's to MY bookmarks.. Sorry.. 

If you go to your profile>settings>subscriptions & notifications> Bookmarks will be a choice in the menu.

@rainbowcolorz

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@pikabo-icu, ahhhhh ... took me about 5 minutes and a dozen clicks but I finally saw the word BOOKMARKS.  When I clicked it, I believe it took me to the FIRST post in this thread and not the actual post I thought would show up in my Bookmarks list.  I'll check it out later when I have more time but thank you!!!! 

[d-k_treasures]

You can use cntl-D on the page, and it wil bring up a popup as to where you want to save it. You would need to turn on the bookmarks toolbar to see them, or look for bookmarks under the 3 dots(for a menu).

[southernfriedbelle]

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@d-k_treasures wrote:

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@d-k_treasures wrote:

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@sandyoutlet wrote:

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@readabouthorses wrote:

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

This will give any buyer using Chrome a warning of an NON SECURE page..

That is distressing to many people. It's for the use of HTML coding. 

So in the post by Sweet Tea or the link here: http://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/Stronger-Browser-Security-Standards-Ahead/ba-p/27389922

There's a program/link to test your listings..

If they have HTML, you can edit it out and your buyers will not see the warning on Chrome.. 

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So I'm guessing you are giving that company the same permission to access your listings/account that you do with a third party listing service? Because when I tried it they wanted my User ID and password to eBay.

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Thanks for your comment. We partnered with i-ways to help identify listings that contain HTTP content. We asked them to use a sign-in token to ensure that your full listing compliance report was not public to anyone else. You can view single item IDs without signing in, but if you want to see your entire list of inventory, it requires a sign in. Thanks! 

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So why would they need the ebay login/password?

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it downloads all your listing at once,then checks them..give you a report...showing any issues....

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Again - why would they need your ebay PASSWORD?

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This is just not right. I don't give out my password, and won't just because eBay says I should. Think it may be time for this gal to look for another venue. I wish eBay would quit messing around and implementing things we don't want. *SIGH*

[pikabo-icu]

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@d-k_treasures wrote:

You can use cntl-D on the page, and it wil bring up a popup as to where you want to save it. You would need to turn on the bookmarks toolbar to see them, or look for bookmarks under the 3 dots(for a menu).

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That's for browser bookmarks, I was giving the info for Bookmarks here on the board..

Oh my, I'm lost now, I'm not sure which one Rainbow was asking about. LOL

[d-k_treasures]

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

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@d-k_treasures wrote:

You can use cntl-D on the page, and it wil bring up a popup as to where you want to save it. You would need to turn on the bookmarks toolbar to see them, or look for bookmarks under the 3 dots(for a menu).

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That's for browser bookmarks, I was giving the info for Bookmarks here on the board..

Oh my, I'm lost now, I'm not sure which one Rainbow was asking about. LOL

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Oh - I never even knew there was a bookmarks spot here on the boards - not that I would use it .... 

[pingpong517]

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@d-k_treasures wrote:

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@pingpong517 wrote:

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@d-k_treasures wrote:

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@sandyoutlet wrote:

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@readabouthorses wrote:

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

This will give any buyer using Chrome a warning of an NON SECURE page..

That is distressing to many people. It's for the use of HTML coding. 

So in the post by Sweet Tea or the link here: http://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/Stronger-Browser-Security-Standards-Ahead/ba-p/27389922

There's a program/link to test your listings..

If they have HTML, you can edit it out and your buyers will not see the warning on Chrome.. 

---

So I'm guessing you are giving that company the same permission to access your listings/account that you do with a third party listing service? Because when I tried it they wanted my User ID and password to eBay.

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Thanks for your comment. We partnered with i-ways to help identify listings that contain HTTP content. We asked them to use a sign-in token to ensure that your full listing compliance report was not public to anyone else. You can view single item IDs without signing in, but if you want to see your entire list of inventory, it requires a sign in. Thanks! 

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So why would they need the ebay login/password?

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it downloads all your listing at once,then checks them..give you a report...showing any issues....

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Again - why would they need your ebay PASSWORD?

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they basically access your listings and download..so yes you give them a moment into you ebay account..and i didn't make the rule.

[pingpong517]

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@d-k_treasures wrote:

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

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@d-k_treasures wrote:

You can use cntl-D on the page, and it wil bring up a popup as to where you want to save it. You would need to turn on the bookmarks toolbar to see them, or look for bookmarks under the 3 dots(for a menu).

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That's for browser bookmarks, I was giving the info for Bookmarks here on the board..

Oh my, I'm lost now, I'm not sure which one Rainbow was asking about. LOL

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Oh - I never even knew there was a bookmarks spot here on the boards - not that I would use it .... 

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I found this:

How do I find "My Bookmarks" on the eBay Community?

merchant-virtuoso, asks

February 18, 2017

I saw a page withing the ebay community I wish to come back later and review. At the top left of the post there are 3 dots side by side. I clicked it and was presented with options. I selected "Bookmark" and a dialogue popped up that stated I had successfully bookmarked it. Now I am curious how do I review "My bookmarks"? I just don't know where the button is.

Note: I did not subscribe to it, as I do not wish to do this. Further, this bookmark is within "The eBay Community" it is not a bookmarked item.

Thanks in advance! 

*too*cheap* replied:

February 18, 2017

eBay likes to hide everything and I can't find a direct link but you can either click on the 3 bars (upper left) or click on the dropdown arrow next to your User ID,

then click on "My Subscriptions" where you can then find the Bookmarks link.