topic Re: Active Content being turned off ???????? in Selling

Active Content being turned off ????????

aussie-picker — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:57:15 GMT

Can anyone explain to me in plain simple english what this means ??

I keep getting messages saying I have active content that will be turned off but I have no idea why ??

All the items I sell are different and uniqe to the piece , though I do use the same description on some as thats what they are , and other sellers have been copying my descriptions as well for years as they have NFI what things are.

Cheers Rick

Re: Active Content being turned off ????????

imastawka — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:01:04 GMT

You have a view counter on your listings.

There's nothing you can do about it.

Ebay will eventually delete it.

Re: Active Content being turned off ????????

aussie-picker — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:08:45 GMT

Is that all ??

Thanks , i thought something was strange .

Re: Active Content being turned off ????????

imastawka — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:12:31 GMT

You have straight forward listings, so I figure ebay is just giving

you a heads-up on the counter.

Just in case you wanted to howl about losing it.

Re: Active Content being turned off ????????

davewil1964 — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:17:02 GMT

As of today, I'm getting warnings for all items uploaded through Turbolister. There is a link after 'powered by eBay Turbolister', to TL presumably.

They don't impact on any other part of my listings, so I will delete the offending part on items I need to edit, if I remember. I certainly won't be going through 2000+ listings to do it specially

Re: Active Content being turned off ????????

aussie-picker — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:57:33 GMT

Lol, Ive had that counter since 2002 , never paid much attention to it anyway , means little to me has never equated to sales just people copying what you are doing or internet forum "experts" discussing stuff.

Many thanks

Cheers Rick

Re: Active Content being turned off ????????

gec2002 — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:13:38 GMT

It is due to your counter, but not because it is Active Content. It's due to another part of the ban which requiresyou to have targets to a new page.

The counter HTML is

It should be

The target="_blank" opens a new tab which is one of the new requirements along with No Active Content

Re: Active Content being turned off ????????

digital*ghost — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:35:13 GMT

I was editing some listings last night and just above the decription editor was a warning that my listing contained active content, and a link that said "Help me fix it".

When I clicked that, it loaded my description in a new pane, it was (as mentioned above) due to one of the links that's in my template, but all I had to do was click a button that said "remove active content" and it was automatically updated, with nothing changed on any kind of visual or functional level.

I could probably do a bulk HTML edit, but I rarely seem to get bulk edit functions to work, and since I'm currently adding watermarks to all of my images and re-uploading them, I'll do that for each listing while I'm at it (note: this function was via the new listing format, which I've recently been migrated back to, never saw it on the older listing format, just a link to see a preview of descriptions with active content removed).