I doubt it has to do with eBay because I don't have that issue (and never had), but I don't use the app, which is known to have problems, so who knows.
I would normally think it has more to do with some settings in the browser you are using.
Perhaps the OP is referring to feedback, with its grey example text looking as though the feedback comment is pre-filled…?
Or… OP sits in front of his/her computer, wants to ask a seller a question about an item, and finds instead that an invisible hand has typed, “How much is that doggie in the window?”
predictive text or Smart compose like gmail uses YES - I can stop this happening in mail etc BUT not in Ebay and as you're typing the text runs in front of what you are typing and really is offputting - I want to stop this from happening - it has only been doing this for the last couple of months
With the gift of automatic writing why bother with ebay, you could earn a fortune elsewhere.
"Automatic writing, also called psychography, is a claimed psychic ability allowing a person to produce written words without consciously writing. Practitioners engage in automatic writing by holding a writing instrument and allowing alleged spirits to manipulate the practitioner's hand."
papermoon.lady
·3 years agoI doubt it has to do with eBay because I don't have that issue (and never had), but I don't use the app, which is known to have problems, so who knows.
I would normally think it has more to do with some settings in the browser you are using.
countessalmirena
·3 years agoJust some doggerel. How a Roman might enquire about the price of a puppy in a window.
I agree, though, that if the moving finger has written, the OP might just have to cry out “Yippee Khayim”, though.
papermoon.lady
·3 years agoNow, Countess, the question has become more complicated. Can the doggie's barking be translated into Latin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqwq4AgMiik
countessalmirena
·3 years agopapermoon, according to Lucilius, canina si lingua dico “r” or possibly “rrr!”
countessalmirena
·3 years ago… or… spookily… some Latin…
quanti illam canis in fenestra?
sandypebbles
·3 years agoOmar Khayyam ?
countessalmirena
·3 years agoPerhaps the OP is referring to feedback, with its grey example text looking as though the feedback comment is pre-filled…?
Or… OP sits in front of his/her computer, wants to ask a seller a question about an item, and finds instead that an invisible hand has typed, “How much is that doggie in the window?”
countessalmirena
·3 years agoYou’ll need to explain what you mean by “automatic writing”.
sandypebbles
·3 years agoWas'nt sure either?
Actual eBay messages via eBay?
Smart Compose like Gmail uses?
Predictive text?
Ouija board?
daintreejudi
OP3 years agopredictive text or Smart compose like gmail uses YES - I can stop this happening in mail etc BUT not in Ebay and as you're typing the text runs in front of what you are typing and really is offputting - I want to stop this from happening - it has only been doing this for the last couple of months
countessalmirena
·3 years ago@daintreejudi,
In what context is this happening? What is it that you’re writing?
Offhand I can’t think of anywhere in eBay where text runs in front of my typing.
Could it be something to do with your browser settings?
sandypebbles
·3 years agoI'm not sure about the eBay issue side of things I'm afraid
I have been having an issue on many sites, that when I type, it will randomly go and type over what I have typed already
If I press the right and left click on my mouse at the same time, it stops doing it for a little while at least
But I assume that is an issue with something gone haywire in/under my keypad
I am not sure if that 'trick' will work for any of typing/text issues
paper-jack
·3 years agoSorry but I simply could not resist this reply:
With the gift of automatic writing why bother with ebay, you could earn a fortune elsewhere.
"Automatic writing, also called psychography, is a claimed psychic ability allowing a person to produce written words without consciously writing. Practitioners engage in automatic writing by holding a writing instrument and allowing alleged spirits to manipulate the practitioner's hand."