New ebay layout now compulsory

[Bloodwych]

Ebay's homepage layout now has adverts dominating the top, as do many of their other pages.

Part of the whole redesign was about accommodating advertising. Useful homepage items are now second priority at the bottom or middle of the page. As if they don't make enough money already through ebay and paypal!

I really hate how the internet has become a business playground, with advertising dominating sites. Plus nearly everything on ebay now is buyitnow, so it's not even much of an auction site anymore.

Anyway, I used firefox flashblock to stop that annoying little trend.

[woody.cool]

It's quite weird
The new 'search experience' is now compulsory, but my PC still shows the old style ..... is this down to a cookie on my machine?
If it is, can I copy that cookie to other machines? ....... I like the old style.

[Harrison]

You might be able to copy the cookie to other machines. However, normally cookies are set to expire after a certain date or time of the day, so it might not work for long.

You could look at the contents of the cookie as some have obvious content you could try changing. But most of the time they just hold a cryptic string of numbers and letters that only the server understands. Worth a look though.

[woody.cool]

I'll give it a look in the next day or two.
If I find of way of 'fixing' ebay to use the old layout on a more permanent basis, I'll let you all know.