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

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

 

Dont Change your Price , Change your Customer
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Active Content being turned off ????????

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.

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imastawka
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You have a view counter on your listings.

 

There's nothing you can do about it.

 

Ebay will eventually delete it.

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Is that all ??

Thanks , i thought something was strange .

 

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

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.

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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

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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

 

Dont Change your Price , Change your Customer
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gec2002
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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

<a href="http://pages.ebay.com.au/selling_manager_pro">

 

It should be

<a href="http://pages.ebay.com.au/selling_manager_pro" target="_blank">

 

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

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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). 

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