{"id":203,"date":"2007-10-09T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T15:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2007-10-09T08:44:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T15:44:53","slug":"20071009-ebay-sellers-seething-over-targeted-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/09\/20071009-ebay-sellers-seething-over-targeted-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/10\/09  eBay Sellers Seething Over Targeted Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not good for Ebay. Article from slashdot.org<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article\" id=\"art1\">\n<p class=\"generaltitle\">\n<p class=\"title\">\n<h3> \t\t\t <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/07\/10\/09\/1424253.shtml\">eBay Sellers Seething Over Targeted Ads<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Posted by \t \t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/%7EZonk\/\">Zonk<\/a>  \ton Tuesday October 09, @11:23AM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>buck-is-stopping-a-little-short<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=217\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\thoagiecat writes <em>&#8220;eBay isn&#8217;t just an enormous auction site; it&#8217;s also a publisher of Google and Yahoo targeted ads, which earn eBay money every time a user clicks on them. But those clicks take users to a new page, and lead them away from the auctions \u2014 and those who make their living from those auctions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/Tech\/2403\/071008ebayads\/\">are starting to get upset<\/a>. Is eBay doing the right thing to make some extra cash from the hot advertising market? Or are they cannibalizing their income and hurting the sellers who have been the backbone of their business?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not good for Ebay. Article from slashdot.org eBay Sellers Seething Over Targeted Ads Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 09, @11:23AM from the buck-is-stopping-a-little-short dept. hoagiecat writes &#8220;eBay isn&#8217;t just an enormous auction site; it&#8217;s also a publisher of Google and Yahoo targeted ads, which earn eBay money every time a user clicks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}