CAPTCHA & has EBAY been HACKED ???
Ebay has just started to ask me to VERIFY my credentials....nothing wrong with them !!
It's now doing the CAPTCHA clicky traffic light/shop window/lamp-posts etc. etc. bit.
Whilst i have no problem with this (my credentials were just fine before and i've not changed anything) my concern is the CHANGING foreign language (the copyright bit at the bottom) IS changing from one language to another at random/each time i try to log in !!!
One minute (usually mostly this country) it's Chinese, the next it's Italian then sometimes it's German....mmmmm....ALARM BELLS methinks......especially as the URL above clearly states .co.uk and my Ebay language preference is set to UK.
I did screen-shots of the various language Copyright message at the bottom of the screen but i no longer use PhotoCROOK (sorry i meant PB) to be able to show you what i mean....Ebay an "upload from your PC" button would be better here IMO.
In my opinion Ebay has been hacked but they haven't the cajones to admit it for fear of panic !! (again i could be wrong, but i'll let others be the judge)
I've emptied the cache/cookies and everything else as per suggestions in different Google searches but the RESEND still pops up and once or twice i clicked/ticked the "I'M NOT A ROBOT" and it INSTANTLY logged me in WITHOUT clicking on any pictures !!! **bleep**...if this is a SECURITY check/verification then it's not doing it's job very well....instantly logging me in WITHOUT clicking the picture mmmm something smells fishy here.....call me paranoid if you will but i'd rather be paranoid than handing over my account to some scumbag masquerading as me to do as they will with my account....if i didn't have PayPal (which some part of it loads in the background....check little snitch/No Script/other) as a payment option then i wouldn't give 2 monkeys about who/what was trying to get at my account/sat in the background waiting for me to "re-enter" my credit card/other information; but i DO have/use PayPal so hence my concern about NOW logging into my account !!
I HAD to click the IMO "bogus" verification process just to get access to this Community bit....not happy about it.
Before anyone asks; YES i did also switch off ALL my ad-blocking/No-Script/other plugins to test if the login process....and it STILL shows the CAPTCHA millarky.
IMO the Captcha is no different than your internet banking in that when you are logging in you are clicking on a PICTURE (albeit a picture of a letter/number) instead of TYPING in the same letter/number to avoid key-stroke loggers....my point is; the picture you are clicking COULD be (IMO) a lamp-post/traffic light/other but IN REALITY is masquerading as "i accept" or "i give my permission" or "i allow the following"....you get the picture (pardon the pun)....what you see/click on (IMO) is not always necessarily what you may think it is !!!
Again in my opinion this all smells fishy to me...and as such i'm either not going to use Ebay anymore or leave my account constantly logged in; which i'm far from happy about doing.
Ebay i await your response.
Yours JnS.
paulfto20
·1 year agoI too am now getting this captch thing every time I click on anything on my page. I have been with Ebay for years and years and this is putting me off from buying and using Ebay because it comes up with every click. I will end up switching all of my buys from Amazon as I do not get htis problem with them.
vegetableoxo
·2 years agoSame problem, I have installed a seperate browser just to use ebay when I can be bothered. I have also been buying more and more from amazon, as I don have problems with my browser on their site. Hope this helps.
andy_hewitt
·3 years agoI am currently unable to see any sellers All Feedback page due to the discriminatory / non functional Captcha system and I won't be buying anything else until I can.
I'm also unable to get to the Help & Contact pages, for the same reason - it insists I prove I'm human.
hCaptcha has an accessibility cookie, which I've set, but eBay claims I haven't. There is no alternative to solving a visual puzzle (set of poor quality images), which discriminates against a number of people, for various different reasons. Perhaps more relevant to eBay - it loses them sales and customers.
I don't do Facebook or Twitter. If they can support people there, they can do it here - or they can lose me as a customer, after at least 15 years of using eBay.
andy_hewitt
·3 years agoI also can't get to the Shopping Basket.