A: Yes. eBay uses machine learning to analyze click patterns, time-on-page, scroll depth, and IP quality. Bots exhibit "bursty" traffic (e.g., 5,000 views in 10 minutes) which human behavior never shows.

This determines how many "viewers" are sent at once. Higher threads require better proxies and more CPU power.

A raw GET request never increments the counter. By 2020, eBay also started requiring x-ebay-pop headers and token validation for item pages. The bot was dead before it shipped — but people bought it anyway.

The allure of the is understandable. Selling on eBay is hard. Competition is fierce. The desire to "trick the system" is tempting.