No Immediate Plans to Block Active Content

As mentioned in June, we have been looking at ways to make it safer to shop on the site.

One of the things we’ve started doing is hosting user-generated content (the content in the Item Description) on a separate domain. This protects buyers from having their purchase interfered with, while still allowing sellers to provide a visually rich, informative shopping experience. You’ll see the domain split on more and more pages as the new View Item page ramps up across the site.

We had also been looking at limiting sellers to a smaller, safer subset of HTML to minimize the possibility of interfering with the buyer experience on the View Item page. That project has been put on hold while we re-evaluate our plans. When we decide to consider it again, we will give you plenty of warning and will involve you in the discussion. This basically means that we do not plan to block user-generated active content at this time.