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I see it on all pages; home page, comments page, view single comment, submission forms, alphabetical index, individual articles... I see now that this does not happen on my desktop; there the ebay ad displays in the left side bar, instead of left-aligned in a header above the page content. (I know the ad was actually using full page width, because there is a sentence above it, like "buy now", which was centered in the page, not above the ad.) I am using FireFox 54.0.1 (32-bit) on that laptop. (My desktop uses 55.0.3.) I tried to flush the browser cache with Shift+Reload, to make sure I am using an up-to-date CSS file, but the behavior persists.

BTW, the behavior that I usually have to wait 20-60 sec before seeing more than a blank screen after loading a page, while the browser says "waiting for adn.ebay.com", persists on all my machines.

For the record: The CSS file this page links to is http://www.chessvariants.com/g/globalindex.css

My laptop's screen width is 1366. I hardly know anything about CSS, but it seems this would make the following lines in that CSS file apply to me:

@media screen and (min-width: 1331px) and (max-width: 1535px) {
	ASIDE.rightcol {display: none;}
	ASIDE.middle, MAIN {float: right; max-width: calc(100% - 340px); margin-left: auto; margin-right: 1ex;}
	MAIN ARTICLE {float: right;}
}

There is no definition of ASIDE.leftcol there, which according to the page source is the HTML element and class used for the ebay ad:

<ASIDE CLASS="leftcol">
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B>Nu Kopen:</B></P>
<script type="text/javascript" src='http://adn.ebay.com/files/js/min/jquery-1.6.2-min.js'></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src='http://adn.ebay.com/files/js/min/ebay_activeContent-min.js'></script>
<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript">
document.write( *** UNDISPLYABLY LONG LINE *** );
</script><SCRIPT>
if (window.canShowAds === undefined) {
	document.write(`<FIGURE>
<FIGCAPTION>Musketeer Chess Fortress and Unicorn Kit Bundled with HOS Luxury Plastic Chess Pieces</FIGCAPTION>
<A HREF="http://www.houseofstaunton.com/******** TITLE="Musketeer Chess Fortress and Unicorn Kit ..."></A>
</FIGURE>

<FIGURE>
<FIGCAPTION>Musketeer Chess Dragon and Spider Kit Bundled with HOS Luxury Plastic Chess Pieces</FIGCAPTION>
<A HREF="http://www.houseofstaunton.com/****** TITLE="Musketeer Chess Dragon and Spider Kit ..."></A>
</FIGURE>
`);
}
</SCRIPT>
</ASIDE>

Can this be a problem?