topic Re: When visiting ebay.com.au, my security software alerts me to an access request to my webcam in Technical Issues

When visiting ebay.com.au, my security software alerts me to an access request to my webcam

infiniterad — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:22:33 GMT

Why is ebay trying to access people's webcams through their browser? Is it maybe for selling an item so it allows a capture to be taken?

Re: When visiting ebay.com.au, my security software alerts me to an access request to my webcam

papermoon.lady — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 04:07:07 GMT

Are you using Chrome? Look at your settings: chrome://settings/content/camera

Re: When visiting ebay.com.au, my security software alerts me to an access request to my webcam

infiniterad — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 05:47:49 GMT

Hi, thanks for the response. Yes, I'm using Chrome. I'm just wondering why ebay is trying to access my webcam. This happens on all ebay sites I've tried (.com, .com.au, .co.uk, .fr)

Re: When visiting ebay.com.au, my security software alerts me to an access request to my webcam

papermoon.lady — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 05:59:05 GMT

I don't know. This has never happened to me (even before I changed my settings to deny access to all websites), but it happened to other people too.