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Fix eBay listings #1752

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@ghostwords ghostwords commented Oct 30, 2017

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I have given a three star rating, because up until recently it was working perfectly. Now when searching ebay for potential purchases the item description left by the sellers seams to have disapeared. I only know it to be the fault of Privacy Badger through trial and error, Once dissabled, all the decriptions are now visible again. I will enable it again periodically to see wether this perticular glitch gets sorted out.
I have a feeling this may have started on 26th Oct.after the last update.

The problem seems to be ebaydesc.com subdomains getting caught because of various cookies, and subsequently blocked when seen across three or more eBay country code TLDs (related to #1253).

We got dozens of error reports for this too. Counts of blocked ebaydesc.com subdomains by month:

+---------+----------+
| ym      | COUNT(*) |
+---------+----------+
| 2017-10 |       27 |
| 2017-09 |       10 |
| 2017-08 |        5 |
| 2017-07 |        6 |
| 2017-06 |        8 |
| 2017-05 |        6 |
| 2017-04 |        7 |
| 2017-03 |        6 |
| 2017-02 |        9 |
| 2017-01 |       10 |
| 2016-12 |       10 |
| 2016-11 |        8 |
| 2016-10 |        1 |
| 2016-09 |        4 |
| 2016-08 |        2 |
| 2016-07 |        7 |
| 2016-06 |        1 |
| 2016-05 |        3 |
| 2016-04 |        1 |
| 2016-03 |        1 |
| 2016-02 |        3 |
| 2015-11 |        2 |
| 2015-10 |        3 |
| 2015-09 |        1 |
| 2015-08 |        4 |
+---------+----------+

As you can see, the issue seems to exist before the October 26th update. I do wonder why we are getting more reports of this problem now. Maybe something changed on eBay?

Also, are there any other ways to learn to block ebaydesc.com? It seems strange that so many people use eBay via three or more different country code domains. I don't see ebaydesc.com get blocked on any non-eBay FQDNs in error reports though.

@ghostwords ghostwords requested a review from andresbase October 30, 2017 21:15
@ghostwords ghostwords force-pushed the fix-ebay-descriptions branch from 98fbc0f to f0ec9b0 Compare October 31, 2017 14:17
@ghostwords ghostwords added the MDFP Multi-domain first parties: lists of domains that should be treated as related to each other label Oct 31, 2017
@ghostwords ghostwords force-pushed the fix-ebay-descriptions branch 4 times, most recently from c73455a to 053f244 Compare October 31, 2017 19:25
@ghostwords ghostwords force-pushed the fix-ebay-descriptions branch from 053f244 to d50bd21 Compare October 31, 2017 19:40
@ghostwords ghostwords merged commit d50bd21 into master Nov 2, 2017
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Fix eBay listings by adding to eBay's MDFP list.
@ghostwords ghostwords deleted the fix-ebay-descriptions branch November 2, 2017 15:04
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