OP just has crap internet. It absolutely does not take noticeable amount of time for JavaScript to download.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2025
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Literally enshitification. Often when these companies focus on one aspects and not others, it leads to such results.
Imagine having to navigate that site to buy a new monitor, without a monitor.
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
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.
Marketplace ruined (affordable) great garage sale finds.
Now some girl will want 300 dollars for her 2 year old vacuume cause that's what some moron actually paid
Before the internet there were still people who thought their stuff was worth more than it was. I do feel like garage sales in general though have declined so thats a bummer.
Honestly that EU cookie legislation does more harm than good.
No, this is malicious compliance bullshit. About as clever as a three year old asking if dolly can have a sweetie instead
Yeah. Although I don't get why they can't just not use cookies?
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.
Not to mention the popup ads...
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
I remember arguing with my mum over a banner ad that said "congratulations you're the 1000th person to visit this page, youve won 1million dollars"
I was really young and I was like mum just put your card in here and get a million dollars its so easy and you always complain about having no money. Its not a scam we just got lucky.
I am lucky neither of my parents had a credit card or any trust for computers.
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.
I'll enshrine this post it encapsulates something that I always struggled to put into words.
And, the sites end up eating battery.
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.
Likely because those sites are built by the same provider.
I work for a car dealership and all of the other dealerships of the same brand in our region use the same family of providers, We -used- to have the faces of real employees pop up on the chat thing until they got too busy to handle it
now its the same stock photo of a person who likely doesnt even exist
c/overemployed
- 2025
- Go to any website
- uBlock Origin
- No ads and cookie banners
- Some AI chat assistant named Jill on the bottom right corner
I always ask AI Jill if she wants to fuck.
Well... did she?
Jill has standards
Don't toss your monitor, you will need to go to the online store in order to get a new one
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
Sad part about this is it's not comic hyperbole. It's just literally an average online experience.
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.
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 small selection of apps, and now that makes total sense.
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