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Holy shit literally every online shopping website is unusable. (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 day ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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I feel like just in the past few months they've all tanked in usability. Amazon is almost physically painful to navigate now... They used to be the "gold standard" in interactivity with how everything kinda got you where you wanted to go (I know it's been a long road, but it's literally all AI slop now and I can't even scroll without something becoming a popup).

Lowe's and Home Depot are just as bad. Useless search, constantly shifting UI. AI generated photos.

Fuck it. I'm only shopping at McMaster Carr from now on. I don't need a fancy magnetic knife rack from a 6 letter lifestyle company that's been around as long as a fruit fly. I'm getting an 18in Screw Mount Magnetic Tool Holder with 1 1/8in depth that's RoHS 3 compliant and comes with free CAD models.

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They are making websites terrible to move you towards AI-slop agents that will buy three wrong products before finally processing your poorly worded prompt. When you stop paying attention to prices, and let the agent take over, they can stop doing sales. They can also start hiding products with discounts from agents (when it is caught through the browser, or the metadata) and funnel your agent directly into the high-price "AI agent" pricing; given that anyone using the token-intensive computer agent feature is probably subscribed to an AI service.

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