US Sues eBay for Allowing Sale of More Than 300k Emissions Defeat Devices

Re:US Sues eBay for Allowing Sale of More Than 300k Emission... by Aurornis on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @06:09PM (#37838327)

> My experience is that eBay screws up their filters and wayyy overfilters.

This is what happens when the penalties are high and users are motivated to evade keyword filtering.

I doubt it's what eBay wants to do, but if the law is unclear about how filtering must be done then companies will over-filter to stay safe.

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Re:US Sues eBay for Allowing Sale of More Than 300k Emission... by Guvante on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @08:31PM (#37839563)

I think calling it overzealous government orders is giving eBay too much credit.

If you ask "what is the quickest way to filter X" someone is going to do a keyword search.

You could then actually put forth the effort to properly filter but generally once the fire is out no one cares anymore.

Unless those other products added up to enough revenue to impact numbers of course.

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