While you're busy making your list of New Year's resolutions, eBay has gone ahead and made one of its own. The online auction site has decided to stop displaying advertisements within its mobile apps sometime in 2013, citing its own unhappiness with the experience users are having with them as rationale.
In an interview with AllThingsD, eBay's head of global marketplaces Devin Wenig says that the company has decided mobile ads "just aren't worth it" and that removing them won't be a problem because eBay doesn't need the money they generate. That's due in part to the fact that, unlike other online businesses, eBay makes money off of every transaction it f