Anon does some online shopping

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Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Open browser

Browser demands updates

All extensions update simultaneously. Each opens its own tab to proudly announce bug fixes for bugs you never noticed.

Close ten tabs you didn’t open

Miss one. It autoplays a video ad.

Type in search bar. Autocomplete offers suggestions that are 5 years old, NSFW, or both.

Search for a product. Top results: Ads. Sidebar: Ads. Bottom: Ads. An actual organic result is wedged between an ad and a newsletter signup modal.

Click real-looking result. Redirected to a shady dropshipper site.

Back button doesn’t work. It reloads the same scam page five times. You lose the original tab somewhere in a pile of redirects.

Click Amazon link. It’s a new seller with the business name “USB_Cable_Amazon_Partner_Official.” 13,000 reviews. All 5 stars.

Try to read reviews. Most are for the wrong product. Many are AI-generated gibberish. The rest complain about shipping.

Add to cart. You are not logged in.

Log in.

CAPTCHA challenge: Pick all the traffic lights. Traffic lights are 1 pixel wide. One is technically a lamppost. Verification failed.

2 factor authentication push. By the time you get the authenticator open, the session expired. Start over.

Try to close browser. Are you sure you want to close 37 tabs?”

Yes. It crashes.

Reopens all 37 tabs next launch.

Give up and use your phone

4 popups, fingerprint required, and every link jumps when the page loads because of delayed ad banners.

App store ad appears for the site you’re already on

Clicking “x” opens the ad anyway.

You close the phone browser

Go outside

Get a push notification: “You left items in your cart.”

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- spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This should be etched into gold as a perfect description of life in 2025.
  
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- ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think it’s interesting that in 2005, the internet had a ton of popups and scammy ads that told you “you just won a free iPod!” and everyone knew that was a thing. There was even a gag about it in Scary Movie 3: Image
  
  Yet you don’t hear people complain about that as much today. It’s like so much of the internet has been cordoned off into walled gardens that most users don’t see pages out in the open.
  
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  - Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I read an interesting article about that: thehistoryoftheweb.com/ads/
    
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  - bob_lemon@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Those popups were so prolific that all browser developers responded by implementing popup blockers.
    
    Which kind of led to the absolute mess of banner ads (and the adblockers created in response) that we still have today. I dare you to deactivate your adblocker on any of the major (commercial) news sites.
    
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- pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You missed scroll hijacking because reinventing how things move on the screen is important for some reason?
  
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  - ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Because phones. The reason behind fucking up scrolling is phones. Swipe upwards once and get the next pretty animated scrolling to the precise place, wooo!
    
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- Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  One trick for the “back button doesn’t work” is to right click it and select the page you want to go back to from that list.
  
  Though I do wish back buttons worked on clicks rather than loads or anything a site can override with javascript. I hate the sites that treat scrolling to the next article as a new page. It trains me to not scroll to the next one, even if it looks interesting, because they fuck with my browser like that (even though I can work around it, fuck them for the attempt).
  
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  - grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The other day I found one that I’m pretty sure somehow removed the earlier entries from the back button list.
    
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  - ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    After using window.location.replace(url); the current page will not be saved in session history, meaning the user won’t be able to use the Back button to navigate to it.
    
    I also hate how some sites block middle mouse clicks or ctrl+click, which opens a new tab. So I’m forced to follow the stupid link then either middle click the back button, or right click back - open in new tab
    
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- mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I once responded to one of those “you have items in your cart” emails that I received like a mere half hour after finishing browsing with a “fuck off”, and a short while later somebody responded and said some things and ended with “same to you too”
  
  I immediately replied and said oh wow a real person replied, don’t take it personally, it was directed at the automatic message.
  
  they started berating me and telling me that I should just unsubscribe if I don’t want the emails (that I never fucking subscribed to in the first place???), and then deleted my account and banned me from the store, it seems. I tried to buy something over half a year later, but it was declined without reason, and support told me it was “flagged for fraud” and didn’t elaborate
  
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  - reptar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh fuck them
    
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- Bombastic@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m sorry, I can’t read this.
  
  Can someone put it in greentext?
  
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Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
And everything is SO FUCKING SLOW. I swear my old Celeron 300A at 500mhz running Windows 98 and SUSE Linux was super responsive. Everything you clicked just responded right away, everything felt smooth and snappy. Chatting with people over the internet using ICQ or MSN was basically instant, all the windows opened instantly, typing had zero latency and sending messages was instant.

My current Ryzen 5950X is not only a billion times faster, it also has 16 times the number of cores. I have hundreds of times the RAM as I had HDD capacity on that old system. Yet everything is slower, typing has latency, starting up Teams takes 5 minutes. Doing anything is slow, everything has latency and you need to wait for things to finish loading and rendering unless you want everything to mess up and you’d have to wait even more.

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- nickhammes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  In the 90s, a lot of programmers spent a lot of time carefully optimizing everything, on the theory that every CPU cycle counted. And in the decades since, it’s gotten easier than ever to write software, but the craft of writing great software has stalled compared to the ease of writing mediocre software. “Why shouldn’t we block on a call to a remote service? Computers are so fast these days”
  
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  - frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The flip side of that is entire classes of bugs being removed from modern software.
    
    The differences are primarily languages. A GUI in the 90s was likely programmed with C/C++. Increasingly, it’s now done in languages that have complex runtime environments like dotnet, or what is effectively a browser tab written with browser languages.
    
    Those C/C++ programs almost always had buffer overflows. Which were taken off of the OWASP Top 10 back in 2007, meaning the industry no longer considers it a primary threat. This should be considered a huge success. Related issues, like dynamic memory mismanagement, are also almost gone.
    
    There are ways to take care of buffer overflows without languages in complex managed runtimes, such as what Go and Rust do. You can have the compiler produce ASM that does array bounds checking every time while only being a smidge slower than C/C++. With SSDs all but removing the excuse that disk IO is the limiting factor, this is increasingly the way to go.
    
    The industry had good reasons to use complex runtimes, though some of the reasons are now changing.
    
    Oh, and look at what old games did to optimize things, too. The Minus World glitch in Super Mario Bros–rooted in uninitialized values of a data structure that needed to be a consistent shape–would be unlikely to happen if it were written in Python, and almost certainly wouldn’t happen in Rust. Optimizations tend to make bugs all their own.
    
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  - Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    One thing I love about the Linux/FOSS world is that people work on software because they care about it. This leads to them focusing on parts of the system that users often also care about, rather than the parts that Product Management calculated could best grow engagement and revenue per user over the next quarter.
    
    I’m not arguing that all these big frameworks and high level languages are bad, by the way. Making computers and programming accessible is a huge positive. I probably even use some of their inefficient creations that simply would not exist otherwise. And for many small or one-off applications, the time saved in programming is orders of magnitude higher than the time saved waiting on execution.
    
    But when it comes to the most performance sensitive utilities and kernel code in my GNU plus Linux operating system, efficiency gets way more important and I’ll stick with the stuff that was forged and chiseled from raw C over decades by the greybeards.
    
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- ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “If you have resources, why shouldn’t MY website be using 100% of it?” - web developers since 2017
  
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- Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh my fuck, my work has a website and I hate it. There are multiple fields to fill out on a page, and every time you fill one field, the entire page automatically refreshes. I can’t just tab from field to field and fill things out - I have to fill out a field, wait for the refresh, click in the next field, fill it out, wait for the refresh, click in the next field…. until I’m done.
  
  Next, for some reason everything is a floating window and there is no scroll outside of it. Which means that if I click the page wrong, the floating window moves, and I can’t move it back. I lose all progress because the only way to fix it is to refresh the site.
  
  Then there’s the speed. At the end of the day, when everyone is using this site, it gets extremely slow. You’d think this would be a predictable issue that the company could be proactive about, yet every day, right when we’re itching the most to go home, every one of us experiences the dreaded lag. I hadn’t seen lag this bad since I played Sims 2 on an old computer.
  
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- Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s because in the Celeron 266-300A-350 days we overclockers were as gods! And if you had just moved from a modem connection to a university LAN connection like me, it was peak computer usage.
  
  The way you describe performance then and now makes me wonder if you’re thinking mostly about running SUSE back then and if you’re talking about a Windows (Teams) machine now. I definitely remember things like the right-click menu taking forever to load sometimes on old windows & HDD based systems.
  
  Using Linux on my work & home PCs now after being used to Windows on them first, they have that responsive feel back.
  
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  - Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I use Arch BTW.
    
    Teams runs on just about anything, which is part of why it’s so slow.
    
    Back in the day Windows 98 was definitly faster than SUSE on my machine. Drivers back then on Linux were rough and if you wanted to play a game you’d need Windows or DOS for sure.
    
    I only had 56k dialup back then, no fast internet for me.
    
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- SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s a two-fold curse - first, every single program these days isn’t a stand-alone program, it’s a glorified web browser. Hand-in-hand with that is the fact that, in order for these webpages-disguised-as-programs to behave in the way you normally expect a modern UI to act, it has to have five layers of javascript frameworks, each adding its own pile of cruft to the slagheap that is modern app design. It’s horrendous and I hate it.
  
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A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Honestly like 2/3 of this is handled by the right Firefox plugins but that JavaScript Shuffle bullshit drives me INSANE

MY PHONE IS AN HTML ONLY ZONE

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- decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah… I tried that for a while. You don’t go very far on modern internet with JS disabled
  
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  - emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Use noscript and whitelist urls as needed. Pages that dont need javascript dont get to use it, and for pages that do need it, you can make sure it only runs exactly what it needs to.
    
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
And don’t even get me started on payment.

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- ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Based Brazil has pix: select payment method, scan qr code with your bank app, pay.
  
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Quik@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You obviously also need an account for everything. This requirement is only communicated at checkout.

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- relativestranger@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  i always look for the ‘guest’ checkout option. some merchants have it, and i’ll choose them over somewhere like azn if the price is reasonably close.
  
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  - Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah but then they pull the old you need to enter everything to get the delivery costs. I understand they need my address to figure out what shipping would cost. But they also require my name, email and phonenumber before showing the shipment costs. So annoying, it makes comparing prices between shops impossible as some shops have higher prices and free shipping, where others have super low prices, but then fuck you on the shipping.
    
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sad part about this is it’s not comic hyperbole. It’s just literally an average online experience.

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- tungsten5@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I came here to say this. Often times the pop ups are so bad that I just leave the site. Its almost never worth it
  
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  - bob_lemon@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Amazon redirecting you to the front page after you decline cookies is just amazingly stupid design.
    
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  - CodeBlooded@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I often decide I don’t actually need what I was about to purchase when I run into this, and I close out the browser tab and move on.
    
    …I guess in some weird way, the poor experience benefits me!
    
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  - SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Sites so slow they actually crush the browser and overheats the phone. Reddit does that, the imgur site is cursed by performance issue and it’s always loading something. Sometimes I think they’re loading malicious code to mine crypto with my computational respurces for how bad it gets.
    
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  - aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m totally not looking at temu
    
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- ulterno@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  It’s just literally an average online experience.
  
  I am going to refute that claim as I don’t see monitors falling out of windows everyday.
  And I am pretty sure people are doing “online” stuff.
  
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- M137@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not with a good ad and annoyances blocker. I reformatted my hard drive recently and the few pages I had to visit before installing that really opened my eyes to how bad it is, and how most people just live with it being. Hadn’t experienced much of any of these the past several years, and it has gotten a lot worse since I did. I’ve noticed that most people I know who are not that tech-savvy have stopped going to websites or even trying anything online other than a very few selection of apps, and now that makes total sense.
  
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the_wiz@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is the reason why I had a long and bloody fight regarding the homepage of the company I work at. And I won.

Management wanted a new homepage, marketing wanted the homepage to be - and this is a citation - “Emotional!!! And we want ENGAGEMENT!!!” (For context: We are building industrial machinery).

Marketing got an external offer (behind my back) and a mockup of the homepage based on React with animations and an dynamic background which turned every PC we looked at it with into a space heater. And they wanted to spend > 15 k € on it.

I - as something yanks would call a CTO - said no.

Everything turned quiet “Emotional!!!” for a couple of months, but in the end I won with the argument that we are building FUCKING BORING INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY, our costumers seldom change and if so, they are also from some big boring industrial company who already know us because we are in this business since Ugh, the first CEO chiseled the first iteration of our landmark product with a flintstone in 15000 BC.

The rebuild of the homepage resulted in something that is quiet nice looking… but that can also work perfectly fine in fucking DILLO!

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- Tinidril@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Way back in 2001 when Adobe flash was the exciting new thing on the web, I was the network/firewall admin for the data-center hosting the company website. I didn’t get to argue about the site itself, since they had Microsoft in to do that. I did win the argument against the Microsoft engineers wanting to put the site outside the firewall for “performance”. Needless to say my ass was on the line if performance were impacted.
  
  Sure enough, the big launch day arrives, the Superbowl adds run, and the complaints all start coming in about how terribly the site was performing. They beat the hell out of it in the lab, so they knew with absolute certainty that the firewall was to blame. Lots of higher-ups were suddenly aware that I existed, which is never a good thing for a network admin.
  
  I dove into troubleshooting and had my answer in less than ten minutes. The front page was a monstrosity made entirely of flash that displayed nothing until the entire page loaded - graphics and all. That worked well enough on a high speed network but, back in 2001, most people at home were on dialup. A little quick math on the size of the download has it taking over 40 seconds to just see the front page.
  
  The site got a really rapid rewrite, and I was off the hook.
  
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- deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “Works fine in Dillo” is a golden endorsement.
  
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- ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah good call, idek your company, site, or industry, and I don’t need to. As someone who has to deal with the same shit from a customer perspective I can’t hate it enough.
  
  Professional websites should all aspire to be like McMaster-Carr’s, “you know why you are here why should we bug you with bullshit, now what size roll pins did you need?” Literally one of my favorite websites of all time, no muss no fuss.
  
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Beryl@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Also the thing you’re actually looking for will be on the 3rd result page, buried under a dozen vaguely related items that are the site ''recommendation ‘’ even though you typed the exact reference of the thing you were looking for.

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- ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh, and those filters on the side? Forget it, they’ll remove results you might actually care to view
  
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vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Don’t toss your monitor, you will need to go to the online store in order to get a new one

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- DicJacobus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  yeah cause you cant get one at your local best buy anymore, but someone will certainly harrass you into trying to buy a smart TV
  
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axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

2025 Go to any website uBlock Origin No ads and cookie banners Some AI chat assistant named Jill on the bottom right corner

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- KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I always ask AI Jill if she wants to fuck.
  
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  - CmdrKeen@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Well… did she?
    
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is 100% accurate.

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happydoors@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah, idk. 2005 internet sucked in a lot of ways too. Nostalgia doing a lot of work here

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- capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I can’t see me doing shopping online in 2005
  
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  - samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I did. Amazon started selling third-party stuff in 2000 (and wasn’t evil yet).
    
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- mang0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Please provide further reading to prove your point
  
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  - Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    2005 was back when you would open a page and get a cascade of pop-ups, then have to wait for a flash presentation load, play, and then present the option the website had to navigate with
    
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- ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Mostly because of flash and shit speeds.
  
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Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
UX my ass. These “improvements” only hinder the user.

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- currycourier@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I suppose they never specified it was supposed to be a good user experience?
  
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- Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The X stands for eXploitation.
  
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  - mang0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Dark design patterns
    
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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Our target audience is people with cognitive disabilities who still have access to a credit card.
  
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DicJacobus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Rose tinted glasses. Shopping online in 2005 was absolutely not as simple as 3 clicks.

you missed the part about broken links, pages that wouldnt load because of some random HTML error, oh, and the payment itself either getting rejected or otherwise not working for a long time.

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- Malfeasant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not to mention the popup ads…
  
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  - DicJacobus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The internet in the 2000s was like a WW1 Trenchline. Noise and graphic content everywhere and one wrong move could cost you life or limb.
    
    I dont exactly remember when it started getting “safer” because I think the same time the internet was getting safer to browse, a lot of Millenial and Zillenial kids were getting smarter and otherwise learning how to not get malware and worms on their PC
    
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  - breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    So many popup ads, and no adblockers to prevent them.
    
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Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Buying things online in 2005 was certainly better. Ebay was a wild place. You’d get in bidding wars going a dollar at a time. Sometimes you’d walk away with a pretty great deal. Not like now how you’ll go to a garage sale and some dude wants retail for his 4 year golf clubs. That’s in large part due to fb marketplace. It’s straight ruined garage sale finds

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- ilikecoffee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Sorry, what exactly about Facebook marketplace? Too low prices, or too high? Or do you just mean the fact that theres no bidding on there? Haven’t been on there in a while so not sure what the correlation is.
  
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  - Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Marketplace ruined great garage sale finds.
    
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Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The fake chats all seem to use the exact same image too. Apparently this one woman works for dozens of support sites if you were to believe she was real in the first place.

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sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Librewolf + Ublock origin with cookie popups blocked

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sturger@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
2025 Got to Online Store Type “toilet paper” in search bar. Instead of simply saying, “Sorry, we have no toilet paper” they expect you to scroll through 50,000 variations of “toilet seats”, “toilets”, “toilet brushes”, “paper”, “paper toilets”, “paper brushes” only to finally discover there are no entries for “toilet paper”, etc. and discover for yourself that they have no toilet paper.

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gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It used to be that the ads, viruses and tracking were on the web pages, but now we are so blessed that they are built into our browsers and operating systems! Talk about optimization!

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jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
it is bad enough on some websites to make me wish I could just use a mail catalog thing

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hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
We are all Anon now

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mortalblade@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Theres a webpage someone made thats like a visual example of this but I forgot what it’s called (maybe "I look at a webpage in 20XX ) Anyone know it ?

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Jackcooper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Missed the part where

Shipping is 6.95 Close tab Sigh, open amazon

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morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Was the cookies popup really 3 years ago already?

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Zenoctate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Literally enshitification. Often when these companies focus on one aspects and not others, it leads to such results.

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SunshineJogger@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Still true 3 years later

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SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ll enshrine this post it encapsulates something that I always struggled to put into words.

And, the sites end up eating battery.

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Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Remember YouTube before ads? Seriously profit motive and infinite growth ruins everything. I want to play Luigi’s mansion every time google asks me to switch to an app or sign in when I google something. Like fuck off.

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apftwb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
OK. Someone please drop a comment to this post telling me how to make all the “sign in to Google” and “Allow Essential Cookie” popups to go away. uBlock filter list?

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Hitting myself with the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind machine

Websites in 2005 never had annoying popups and obnoxious JavaScript and a thousand bad design decisions that made using them terrible.

Everything was so easy back then and you could always trust your anonymous Internet retail vendor to do exactly what you paid them for.

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