Active content will be disabled in all eBay listings starting in June, 2017. Take action now to give your customers the best buying experience.
Why Replace Active Content?
Active content such as JavaScript and Flash hinders mobile purchases, creates longer load times, and increases security vulnerabilities. To ensure the best shopping experience, it’s important to replace active content in your listings now—before it’s disabled in all listings across all devices starting in June, 2017.
- June 2017
Active content in all listings across all devices will be disabled. Use eBay tools or third-party partners to replace any active content in your listings.
- In 2018
The policy will extend to eBay Store pages.
What is active content?
Active content includes third-party applications like JavaScript, Flash, plug-ins, and form actions. Such applications can negatively affect the user experience by inhibiting purchasing, increasing page load times, and raising security vulnerabilities.
eBay will eventually phase out the ability to use active content in listings, so you should limit or eliminate its use in eBay listings and Stores as soon as possible. We also strongly suggest you don't invest in creating or augmenting a custom Store experience with active content since this capability will be retired at a later date.
Use this guide to help you remove active content or find a third- party resource to help manage it for you. Contact information for trusted partners who can help is listed below. You can also check out our free template creator.