The Ebay online-shopping website is running scripts to port scan users and determine if they are using a VPN and possibly attempting fradulent activity. But this is a compromise of security and trust. This can be blocked though. There is a lot of information about this here: https://blog.nem.ec/2020/05/24/ebay-port-scanning/. Judging by the information in that blog post, the uBlock Origin filters below should really help out to block this stuff on that website.
||https://src.ebay-us.com/fp/clear.png ||https://src.ebay-us.com/fp/* ||https://src.ebay-us.com/fp/check.js ||https://src.ebay-us.com/* ||h-ebay.online-metrix.net/* ||https://ebay-us.com/* |
There could be other websites using this service as well, who knows who they are. But this is a start. The online-metrix.net domain is already blocked by uBlock origin anyway, it is a tracking server. But blocking the Ebay filters blocks the implementation on the website. This should really help with maintaining privacy when using the Ebay website over a VPN. Using a VPN is not a criminal activity, if you are still using a legitimate payment method. This is just the modern implementation of more and more tracking and invasions of privacy.
Another good trick is to go to about:config in Firefox and set network.websocket.max-connections to 0.
network.websocket.max-connections = 0 |
This will help further in protecting you from this invasion of privacy.