Stopping eBay adds on Facebook ?

Can anyone give some hints/tips on preventing or reducing the number of ebay adds being shown on Facebook short of closing the ebay account.

The sponsered by ebay adds relate to items iv'e viewed on ebay pages, it has now become a pain and the interaction between the 2 sites is slowing my laptop computer down to a crawl, almost unusable.

This has been worse since the last Firefox update, OS is Vista and download speed check shows reasonable speed downloading but poor upload speed.

It's only those 2 sites effected, all others used are OK.

Thanks in advance, Emgee

Normally with an ad on facebook, assuming the ad is in your feed/timeline, there's a little drop drown arrow on the top right hand corner with various options. e.g. Hide Post, Hide all fromxxxxx and or see less ads like this.

Hide all from ebay should stop ebay ads appearing.

Thanks Peak4, now need to find why eBay takes an eternity to load and navigate around when on the site.

Emgee

Have you tried running Ccleaner and Malware Bytes?

The free versions works for me, but don't forget to create a restore point before using them.

Bill

Companies like Ebay and Facebook make money by collecting and selling data about people who visit their sites. They use tracking cookies. Fortunately Firefox gives you control over the cookies.

In Firefox go to Preferences > Privacy > History > Exceptions and add something like:

ebay.com Block

ebay.co.uk Block

facebook.com Block

facebook.net Block

You might also consider blocking cookies from google or using Duckduckgo as your search engine instead.

Russell

I recently found ebay almost impossible to use due to the number of advert scripts that were being loaded.

I use Chrome browser and installed Adblock plus (free add-on). Ebay is now back to working fine, but the number of adverts that Adblock reports it has prevented from loading is incredible - over 15,000 in a 20 minute browsing session!

Andy

Hi Emgee, all,

I use a small add-on for Facebook called Face Book Purity. It's a filter for quite a lot of the stuff that gets added into Facebook pages. It will even hide some of the panels and columns, like the whole news feed or sections of the left panel etc, you're choice.

To install into Firefox, go to Addons/Extensions and search for FBP.

(I'm not linked with either FBP or Facebook)

Ed.

Edited By Ed Duffner on 01/07/2017 16:08:30

Thanks everyone for the tips, i've been away a few days so late replying, I do use CC cleaner almost daily, but need to make the other suggested changes also, will report back when done.

Emgee

When you run malwarebytes put your computer into safe mode first, then run it. This way you will catch all the 'masked' programs. I was stunned by how many it turned up the first time I ran it this way.