Visited pages / links remain unmarked in search - (no other color anymore, just like before)
This is totally annoying, I keep opening articles I've already seen over and over again.
Will this be brought back?
Or is it just me, what tricks are there?
What else can I do?
Thanks a lot for constructive answers!!
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miriam@ebay
Hello @zuckertrauben! To me, the behavior you’re experiencing sounds more like a browser setting on your end, because when my colleague @patrick@ebay and I click listings opened via search, a new browser window always opens and when you then go back to the search results, the links are purple, as they were before.
Take a look:
However, it’s also the case for us that the display resets again when the page is refreshed. I’ll pass along your request for better marking of listings that have already been clicked as a suggestion for improvement internally, thank you very much for that! 🙂
Best regards
Miriam
zuckertrauben
OP2 years agoHello and good day, Miriam.
I’m very pleased with the quick + competent response.
Many thanks !
The problem has actually been going on for a good 1/2 year already.
At first only sometimes.
It really bothers me immensely.
I have tried VERY much.
Different PCs, WIN 10, WIN 11, various browsers. : Nothing.
Gone through ALL browser settings.
It works everywhere else, all search engines for example. Basically also on Ebay.
It is ONLY the search results pages there that forget everything after refreshing.
The visited links are present both on my PC and on Ebay.
If Ebay blocks that, I don’t have very good chances.
If it’s down to me:
I have now fully allowed Ebay every access to my PC without gaps.
So it can’t be that.
I have 8 (eight) add-ons specifically for the problem.
Whether individually or more or less at the same time: Nothing.
("Change Colors" helped quite well for a long time.)
I have used Violentmonkey and Tampermonkey for userscripts.
Some for my own, but they also offer ready-made scripts for exactly this problem. : Nothing.
Now I’m still working on integrating CSS scripts.
A science in itself.
I could also find and use the visited links in my own browsing history.
An arduous business.
So far hardly any results, I’m not getting any further (yet).
My workaround:
I click all viewed items to "Watch".
That way I don’t click twice in the results list.
Pages with my purchasing interest go into another, separate reservoir.
Quite fiddly, but without it Ebay search is not usable for me.
I will keep looking into external tools, Bayhunter, Preishai, Preispiraten and the many other types.
Maybe I’ll find something, and with a manageable amount of effort I can still continue with Ebay...
Too bad, too bad.
And no one can think of a reason, or a motive.
I haven’t solved anything yet.
But maybe my log is a shortcut or inspiration for other tinkering Ebay-affine colleagues...
Best regards
Zuckertrauben
P.S.:
Is it possible for me to get an info when something changes ? Merci !
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miriam@ebay
Thanks for the feedback on that, @zuckertrauben! As your reply already shows, there can be different reasons why your browser data gets deleted and the offers you have already viewed are then shown to you as "new" in the search results. Either your browser plugins and settings, or our eBay systems, decide whether the activity is saved or deleted.
When you log out, or close the browser, that is the same as deleting cookies or temporary files. Logging out of eBay therefore means that the internet session is closed - so everything can be reset to "unknown".
Even though I'm glad that you were able to help yourself, I'm sorry that this approach involves so much effort for you. I have therefore passed on your request for a better and more permanent solution, as I can understand why this is important to you.
Best regards
Miriam
zuckertrauben
OP2 years agoHello and good day, Miriam.
Many thanks for your once again so prompt and competent response.
Only: I have NOT solved the problem.
I currently only have a workaround at hand to be able to use Ebay sensibly at all.
Even if it's cumbersome.
I usually never log out of Ebay. So most of it stays intact.
I rarely reboot, maybe every 1-2 weeks or so.
Always just standby. That's like never switching off.
My browsers never delete anything when closing.
If they do, I do it myself and only when I want to.
So that doesn't belong to our issue.
I've tried this hundreds of times:
- Ebay search list - open an item in a new window - close immediately:
- In the search list it is marked red straight away.
- Refresh the search list immediately: unmarked, blue or black again.
So within 5 seconds!
So it's not like the link to the page visited disappears.
At least not for me, it's still in the history too.
Ebay stores an endless amount of stuff anyway, so they certainly won't kill that either - the info about clicks is valuable.
So: The links are definitely there.
But they are not marked.
Whether that's due to the HTML of the Ebay page, or some tricky setting on my PC.
We can regard that as confirmed.
We'll keep fighting!
Best regards
Zuckertrauben
P.S.:
Is it possible that I get an update when something happens? Merci!
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miriam@ebay
I can’t promise that, @zuckertrauben - but if we get constructive feedback, I’ll be happy to share it here with you all 🤗.
Best regards
Miriam
zuckertrauben
OP2 years ago... Well, I mean: just here.
I get an email every time anyway.
Ciao
Frank
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zuckertrauben
OP2 years agoGood evening, Miriam.
By now the cause is completely clear to me:
Every time the results list is refreshed, the article link changes.
Quite a lot, and so does the length.
So just by reloading.
On the PC side, it therefore CANNOT BE DETECTED that it is always the same page the different links point to !.
I also know a way to solve it:
THE FIRST 213 CHARACTERS ARE ALWAYS THE SAME !
Entered into the address bar, these 213 characters also always take you nicely to the correct article page !
So we only need a script that on the results list ( = https://www.ebay.de/sch/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) always compares only the first 213 characters.
And violà: those are always the same and can therefore be recognized as 'visited'.
That's it.
We don't have such a script yet.
I'm NOT going to enter that as the solution for now, since it's only the correct way to solve it.
Best regards !
Zuckertrauben
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