Hot take (?) but Amazon's UI has literally always sucked

Not only am I only shopping at mcmaster carr I'm only using their physical catalog

i do almost nothing on cell phone. the mobile UX for big sites just plain blows 99% of the time. i use a handful of apps to check the status of things and i even use an app for the fediverse.

doing things like shopping or paying bills or whatever is always on a real computer, where i have easy access to the full suite of tools in a nice browser with extensions to make it so i can adapt and overcome the latest asshole marketing driven mechanic.

in rare occasions i might casually browse a few specific and not hateful shopping sites on my phone, to do basic shit like check prices, but if it becomes more serious, i switch to computer.

my parents and other family members seem to try and do everything on their phones and it looks absolutely brutal

Even just loading the Home Depot website on a mobile browser is laborious. Like your phone is struggling under its might to show you some picture of tools and some semi-organized colors and text. I just assume they have terrible engineering practices and packed it with behavior tracking. Better not try to tap the search bar while it's loading, it might throw up a popup just before and send you to some promotion you didn't want.

I was gonna suggest McMaster-Carr as the only good site but you beat me to it lmao. These tech bros are always waxing poetic about "reducing friction" yet they make these bloated-ass websites that fail the most basic usability standards. Love to have to make a uBlock Origin filter to prevent Amazon's dogshit "AI" popover from taking up a third of my fucking screen

picclick is a sort of eBay frontend that allows keyword search and shows things that are listed but algorithmically buried on eBay itself.

And it's not just the website that has gotten worse. Logistics are worse, don't think the deliveries have ever been slower than now, customer service is worse.

Unfortunately other stores are even worse. I've noticed some stores have one quick search index for suggestions while typing in the search bar and one more complex search showing the actual results and the suggestions in the search bar are consistently closer to what I'm looking for than the top 30 actual search results.

HEY DO YOU WANT TO BUY THING HERE HAVE AN AD THAT BLOCKS YOU FROM BUYING THING

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.

I was thinking of buying something from bestbuy but the website kept crashing my phone so I didn't buy anything.

Besides ai, I hate how much shit they put that uses way too much Internet. Like fuck off I don't need some special animation shit just show me some small png of your product. And you know those website exclusive loading bars at the top of page that are in the colour of the website? Fuck them too. My Internet is litteraly disconnected and your fake loading is still slowly progressing. Who are you kidding? Web browser already has a loading bar and it doesn't lie to me. Same goes for website exclusive refresh page

Then there's the AI assistant popup that takes up 1/3 of the screen and breaks the website. Also it can only regurgitate FAQ and can't actually help you or gives you completely wrong information.

Folks, would you recommend the GUBGIR over the RUNFUT? I've heard mixed things about NIBROO in the 3 hours since they incorporated, and might switch to SUKNUT