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99% of the internet is trash. Pages bouncing all over while loading, constant cookie or login popups (even with various blockers), links not connecting, old long outdated content being pushed to the front of searches, junk AI slop non-answers articles or marketing lists about a problem vs actual detailed answers....
Then there are all the various billing systems for various marketplaces, that all wanna require memberships for one time sales, before they tell you the shipping cost.
And so so much more.
It's all heavily dysfunctional and lame and not user friendly at all anymore.
Apps get more permissions than websites do. Websites being bad is on purpose to make you use the app so they can collect and sell more data.
Its enshittification
Yeah it’s by design
No, but only because I do not use apps, so do not have a reference to compare with. If I can't do it on your website, I don't do it.
If you look at most apps they’re just wrappers around the websites. Usually they’re using the exact same domains for payment processing so I can only imagine that the payment details are 99% the same.
Personally I haven’t experienced an increase in card declinations on websites.
The amount of sites claiming there's suspicious traffic coming from my IP is getting ridiculous
Even the new version of my banking app seems bad in comparison to the old one. Sure looks nice, but having a white screen until the web app has downloaded isn't really good design
Clothing sites nearly always make my phone (iPhone 13) run hot after a few minutes of browsing. Often the phone as a whole will start to get really slow (thermal throttling?) and I have to force quit the browser and maybe even restart iOS.
Grubhub’s website seems intentionally unusable. Slow, constant errors, randomly logs me out, etc.
First Covid happened and I noticed every piece of tech started getting bad updates.
Then AI happened and things got worse…
I agree completely! So many sites have forced me to download an app to accomplish what I need!
It's mostly better than it was in the 90s when things first started trying to be more than just static text and images. But government websites are somehow even worse.
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