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This post is a little ironic on the pro-Amazon front, what with the complaining about Ebay's checkout process while Amazon holds the one-click-buy patent...

sigstoat 8y ago
the patent expired last year. ebay could've had some version of it ready to roll out automatically within seconds of whatever expiration time was approved by the legal department. personally i've never used one click purchasing on amazon, and their checkout still feels better than ebay's. the real irony is: > (among other things including the issue of trust) when amazon is comingling inventory and generally confusing people about who they're purchasing from.
- O1111OOO 8y ago
  > sigstoat: the real irony is: >> me: (among other things including the issue of trust) > sigstoat: when amazon is comingling inventory and generally confusing people about who they're purchasing from. I was referring to sellers being allowed to include their own JS and Flash on listings[0] and the high-profile hacking cases along with ebay's response[1,2]. Sellers were also allowed to include 3rd-party templates to list their items (which can lead to yet another attack vector). This may still be happening but like I said, I abandoned ebay some time ago. Also, when purchasing on ebay, you're always dealing directly with a seller. It's a marketplace, a bazaar. It's their business model (but like I said, it can mutate into something else). Unlike Amazon (where you always "feel" you're dealing with a single company - comingling aside), on ebay you never feel like you're dealing with a single entity. As a result, I always felt on high alert: investigating sellers, viewing their reputations, etc... it's time-consuming and an effort. It constantly forces me to question... to trust. [0] https://hacked.com/biggest-hacks-breaches-2014/ https://hacked.com/biggest-hacks-breaches-2014/ [1] https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2015-16/W/3482/Team12_eBayHacks.pdf https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2015-16/W/3482/Team... [2] https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/02/18/ebay-scripting-flaws-being-actively-exploited-by-fraudsters.html https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/02/18/ebay-scripting...
  - brianwawok 8y ago
    Good news! EBay doesn’t allow active content anymore. So no JavaScript.

sigstoat 8y ago

the patent expired last year. ebay could've had some version of it ready to roll out automatically within seconds of whatever expiration time was approved by the legal department. personally i've never used one click purchasing on amazon, and their checkout still feels better than ebay's. the real irony is: > (among other things including the issue of trust) when amazon is comingling inventory and generally confusing people about who they're purchasing from.

O1111OOO 8y ago
> sigstoat: the real irony is: >> me: (among other things including the issue of trust) > sigstoat: when amazon is comingling inventory and generally confusing people about who they're purchasing from. I was referring to sellers being allowed to include their own JS and Flash on listings[0] and the high-profile hacking cases along with ebay's response[1,2]. Sellers were also allowed to include 3rd-party templates to list their items (which can lead to yet another attack vector). This may still be happening but like I said, I abandoned ebay some time ago. Also, when purchasing on ebay, you're always dealing directly with a seller. It's a marketplace, a bazaar. It's their business model (but like I said, it can mutate into something else). Unlike Amazon (where you always "feel" you're dealing with a single company - comingling aside), on ebay you never feel like you're dealing with a single entity. As a result, I always felt on high alert: investigating sellers, viewing their reputations, etc... it's time-consuming and an effort. It constantly forces me to question... to trust. [0] https://hacked.com/biggest-hacks-breaches-2014/ https://hacked.com/biggest-hacks-breaches-2014/ [1] https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2015-16/W/3482/Team12_eBayHacks.pdf https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2015-16/W/3482/Team... [2] https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/02/18/ebay-scripting-flaws-being-actively-exploited-by-fraudsters.html https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/02/18/ebay-scripting...
- brianwawok 8y ago
  Good news! EBay doesn’t allow active content anymore. So no JavaScript.