Anyone who actually checked the settings would already know of this. This can be gotten to, starting from the main page, ebay.com (I use ebay.co.uk and ebay.de) -> My eBay - > Summary -> Account -> Advertisement preferences Also I'm not sure exactly which method they use to determine what country you are buying from, but this likely means people in the US are getting all this information collected from them and there's not much they can do about it
We don't all check the things we are supposed to do (otherwise we'd all be perfect wouldn't we ) The post was a just gentle reminder to members who use ebay.
Thanks for the heads up, I'm not clear how this is even legal under the GDPR - there was no opt-in consent as far as I'm concerned.