IE has never really been good for accessing ebay.
They obviously dont support the older versions, and lots of issues crept in from hanging pages to watch list problems. But when 10/11 came in we had lots of reports about missing sign ins, various other missing menus. On IE9 it still had the options to enable dom storage and I found I could toggle some of the issues on/off by enabling/disabling that.
I think the official line back then was that they were optimising for phone/tablet use. It was predicted that most would be using phone or tablets by now, and that seems to have been correct, so I cant see them back tracking now??
I dont think its bad script, I'm not getting constant error messages.
I just think its sheer weight of advertising and tracking. I use super anti spyware to clean out most days, and the average haul is over 200 if I've been on ebay, which is most days as I'm usually watching a "few" things. If I dont go to ebay it will be 30 - 50 from all other sites visited. And I'm runing spybot which is actively blocking so those are the ones that are not on the blocked list. Obviously running an adblocker makes the big difference by screening out the active content, but I've found picking up all those cookies is still noticeable on an older machine - if they are all hitting within a few moments of landing on the page, the computer is storing them and if theres enough theres a perceivable lag.
You can use inprivate browsing ( from the tools menu in IE), which doesn't store cookies outside the session, and there is usually tracking protection included.
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