11.03
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On November 3, a netizen posted that screenshots from the Android version of Taobao taken a few months ago contained invisible watermarks, which were visible when zoomed in. The user encountered significant trouble after sending the screenshots to others. In the comments section, some netizens claimed they had received calls from customer service demanding they delete posts after sharing Taobao shopping screenshots, while others confirmed they had also discovered the watermarks.
2026.11
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
Netizens discovered a baseball cap on Taobao printed with the characters "Cuiping," named after the character Wang Cuiping from the TV series "Lurking." Because the character "Cuiping" (翠) can be disassembled into "Xi Xi Su" (習習卒 - meaning Xi dies twice), it was used to allude to Xi Jinping, and the product was removed shortly after being discovered.
10.10
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On October 10, netizens discovered that a fur collar product page on the Taobao women's clothing store CHICYOU was labeled as using the fur from the back of a tabby cat. That evening, the store apologized, claiming that the materials supplied by the factory did not match and that the product had not yet officially gone on sale, but it avoided any mention of subsequent listing and delisting records.
10.04
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Beijing
Affected by Beijing's drone control policy, the Taobao platform, because its system cannot distinguish between "masturbator cups" and "drones," has halted across-the-board shipments of adult products containing related keywords to customers in the Beijing area; a notice in a merchant group was exposed.
09.24
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·Beijing
Netizens submitted that a bamboo dragonfly toy on the Taobao platform does not support shipping to Beijing addresses, reason unknown.
07.27
·Hearsay
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Ningbo, Zhejiang
On July 27, 2026, a netizen in Ningbo, Zhejiang posted that their real name was rejected by the Taobao system as a recipient because it matched the platform's politically sensitive word database, leaving them unable to normally claim government consumption subsidies.