So many:
- Unsubscribe links that are magically broken.
- Newsletter popups when you’re trying to view content.
- Websites that are paywalled coming up in search engines.
- Broken shopping cart payment systems.
- The fact that it’s an assault on your senses to browse without an adblocker.
- “Sign in to view content” for articles, posts, etc.
- Banking sites that time out after a minute.
- likewise, shopping cart sessions that expire before you’re done shopping.
- AI generated articles that don’t even sound like they’re referring to the right topic.
- Recipe websites that have a 15 page story for each recipe without a way to skip to the actual recipe.
- “Endless scrolling” that prevents you from accessing links at the bottom of the page.
- Business websites that don’t list an address.
- “Password must be short enough to guess.”
- "How did we do? " emails.
- Automatic newsletter sign-up.
- Desktop websites that act as if you’re on a phone (i.e swipe through grocery filters instead of scrolling through them).
- Unreadable, archaic, and/or low-contrast fonts.
- “This content is not available in your country.”
I could list dozens more. 😮💨
“we respect your privacy, as such our whole website is unavailable in your region because the GDPR made our data gathering policies illegal and we’d rather cut you off than have to comply with the law.”
“I see this as an absolute win”
We respect your privacy and only share your data with 508 resellers.
The new Twitter has an ‘x’ in the top right corner that does not close the page. Asshole design.
USA visa application is hellish.
Login is convoluted, and breaks password managers.
It has a global time out somewhere between 10 and 20 minutes.
On timeout, it lets you work, until you try and go to the next page, then just forgets you exist rather than saving.
You can’t save pages that aren’t completely filled in.
Some pages can take 20 minutes to fill in (it gets detailed, and you dare not mess it up).
Oh, and it breaks pasting into some boxes, so no prewriting it in another document.
Try doing anything with US customs. On the one hand, woe and Armageddon to those who do not enter absolutely correct data, on the other hand, you cannot enter anything but A-Z, 0-9, and a handful of basic punctuation. And, of course, addresses have American formatting and fields.
One would have thought that a bureaucracy dealing with customs might have heard about foreign countries…
I suspect both websites are maintained by the same team (assuming they are maintained). For one of the (supposedly) most technically adroit countries in the world, their ICT is truly crap.
There is an extension “Don’t Fuck With Paste” for FF (maybe chrome too) that, as the name implies, stops pages from messing with the ability to paste. Could be useful.
Oh, it also only worked in native Chrome. It went weird in Firefox, and apparently also played up with chromium.
Ah, a proper government-funder endeavor.
Soo many job application form… Make account, upload CV, correct mistakes, add all information again because it’s just too frustrating to correct everything, find the job that you want to apply for. Fuck you Honeywell, the most toxic company that I ever worked for.
Canon.com refused to show me the final price before clicking pay now
eBay. Selling at 6 figure levels and they still have no support for sellers, treat you like crap, obfuscate what you’re actually paying in all combined fees. Mine never got below 39% including all fees combined, shipping, tax, transaction, and platform with a perfect account. For the actual work they do, they are not worth half of that. If they were not a monopoly, a competitive market would be half from all involved. Taxing used goods is criminal. Logistics is a scam of ridiculous bureaucracy, and online transaction processing is more like a skimming operation with a government piracy charter, while actual eBay is mostly automated.
A webshop, where I wanted to buy tools. Choose things, put into cart, then go to check-out. The “check-out” was a page that they wanted you to print out and fax to them. Nope, nope, nope. :-)
“how can we run a shell company with a customer-facing experience for cover?”
“I have just the thing”
Not a website, but a 30+MB app that could easily have been replaced with a <10k website…
To pay for your parking, you have to enter the parking lot number, your cars’ tags, and CC data. So far, so good.
But they also require an email address and a phone number. They want to confirm that email address, and they check whether the number is a valid UK telephone number. And no, you simply cannot enter an international prefix. Which meant that I as a tourist could not pay for the parking lot at the hotel.
Tech support web site that had incomplete or inaccurate information
Probably Civitai bcus
- so goddam (slow|bloated) , uses tonnes of (CPU|GPU)
- barely working search function apparently so bad peops had to make 3rd party websites just to search civitai bcus performance so bad
- login-gated downloads , they don’t let you use passwords , login email only
- Can’t even view model info if marked sensitive , so forced to login for that tꝏ
Oracles website when trying to download a specific version of Sun Java because it’s the only version of Java the shitty management app works with.
LinkedIn and its identity verification.
I didn’t want to do it so I wanted to delete my account. They don’t have a form outside your profile page, which was inaccessible because it needed an identity verification.
A popular EHR cloud service that we use has a developer portal where operations such as logging in or entering two-factor codes would take upwards of 2 minutes to process.
When I asked our rep about it they went “eh it’s normal”.
This same company designed a XML SOAP API where if you request too much data, it just returns a HTTP 200 with no content. No error message or formatted SOAP reply, just completely nonsensical response.
I hate this company but there’s literally very few choices in this space.
I was trying to sign up for an Apple account to use Apple music, and I kept running into errors on Linux. I ended up using a windows computer and got through the initial process successfully. BUT THEN to log in on desktop, it turns out signing up for an Apple account through Apple music requires less information than signing up through the accounts page, so I had to go back to fill out more information.
After a while of that, I got stuck at an instructional page where the button to continue had no JavaScript attatched to it. It seems to be an issue that’s been present for years on windows devices, and Apple has seemingly done nothing to fix it.
I ended up just borrowing my Dad’s account.
