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waiting for gha.ebay.com

This might have something to do with ghostery

 

Sales down?  Your buyers might be seeing a whitescreen every time they look at your stuff.

 

I do, starting yesterday, 3 Oct.

 

The item loads, momentarily.

 

Then undesirable stuff starts happening, followed by a permanent whitescreen

 

waiting for gha.ebay.com

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waiting for gha.ebay.com

Gee. Nothing even remotely like that is happening to me, and I browse eBay listings every day.

What exactly is this "gha.ebay.com" you're waiting for?
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It didn't happen to me until yesterday.

 

I have no idea what gha.ebay.com is, but that's what the browser says it's waiting for while spinning in a whitescreen.

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I'm no expert by any means, but looking at the output of what gha.ebay.com (using the Logger function of uBlock Origin adblocker) calls when it loads:

 

https://gha.ebay.com/favicon.ico

https://gha.ebay.com/nproxy/notification/v1/getNotification?GH&up=1&ts=-1&_=1538674617698

 

> Favicon is the little icon next to the URL in the address bar (sometimes used as a means to track you when tied to your IP address)

> notification/v1/getNotification *might* be a script to indicate and serve up any orange bell notifications you have

 

Have you perchance inadvertantly blocked gha.ebay.com with Ghostery?

Have you tried disabling Ghostery and then revisting Ebay to see if the issue persists?

I'm ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ certain the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
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My Ebay pages have been slow to load for months now.  It gets stuck on ontcrest.ebay or something like that.  Different computers and browsers, still happens.

 

 

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Have you perchance inadvertantly blocked gha.ebay.com with Ghostery?

 

I don't think so, unless somehow Ghostery came to believe it to be offensive.

 

Have you tried disabling Ghostery and then revisting Ebay to see if the issue persists?

 

Not yet, but what I did do was to move to a different computer in a different city.  Problem gone.  Is it also gone back in city1?  Maybe.  Back there tomorrow.

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The reason I was driven to run Ghostery about a year ago was 3rd party sites which failed to respond in timely fashion.

 

My web experience has sped up tremendously due to ghostery.

 

I sure hope that eventually ghostery et all will force ads back onto the primary page, rather than scattered all over unknown dark corners of the internet where no one is to blame for hung browsers.

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waiting for gha.ebay.com


@sg51 wrote:

The reason I was driven to run Ghostery about a year ago was 3rd party sites which failed to respond in timely fashion.

 

My web experience has sped up tremendously due to ghostery.

 

I sure hope that eventually ghostery et all will force ads back onto the primary page, rather than scattered all over unknown dark corners of the internet where no one is to blame for hung browsers.


I also use Ghostery, motivated by my desire to keep sites from tracking me all over the Internet, but yes ... surfing the web with Ghostery (and other ad blocking and tracking plugins installed) certainly speeds up site load times. And I like the peace of mind knowing that I’ve taken steps to protect my privacy. You certainly can’t depend on our government or corporations to do it.

 

That being said, I haven’t experienced your issue at all, but that’s not to say it can’t happen. A good first step in troubleshooting is always to “backtrack” a bit and disable any newly installed plugins, or updates to long existing plugins, to determine if they could be the culprit causing the issue. Once you reach a point where disabling a certain plugin alleviates the problem, then searching for an update could resolve it permanently ... or you may have to delete it entirely, or leave it disabled until developers fix the problem.

I'm ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ certain the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
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The same **bleep** has been happening to me as well lately.  Certain pages (like the messages pages) will never fully load because of this "gha.ebay.com"!  I see at the bottom of browsers' windows: "Waiting for gha.ebay.com" .  Even after clicking the "X" to stop the 'page motion', nothing happens, it just still keeps 'animating'.  I looked at the source code and oddly there's NOTHING it about "gha.ebay.com" , so it must be part of (a "call to" reference) in their (always problematic never-working) JavaScript .js files or something like that.

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