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[–] Zenoctate@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Literally enshitification. Often when these companies focus on one aspects and not others, it leads to such results.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

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

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[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Not to mention the popup ads...

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

So many popup ads, and no adblockers to prevent them.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I only fell for one of those maybe once or twice before I caught on. No money was lost though. just spam/adware

I did manage to get scammed and have my habbo hotel account stolen though, I was also a stupid kid.

[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 10 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
  • 2025
  • Go to any website
  • uBlock Origin
  • No ads and cookie banners
  • Some AI chat assistant named Jill on the bottom right corner
[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I always ask AI Jill if she wants to fuck.

[–] CmdrKeen@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 12 hours ago

Jill has standards

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago

Imagine having to navigate that site to buy a new monitor, without a monitor.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

c/overemployed

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I'll enshrine this post it encapsulates something that I always struggled to put into words.

And, the sites end up eating battery.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And, the sites end up eating battery.

Yeah, but they would have done that in 2005 too, if you were using them on a device with a battery.

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Not in the same measure.

[–] Gameline@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

it's called "enshittification", atleast that's how i refer to it

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Sad part about this is it's not comic hyperbole. It's just literally an average online experience.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't toss your monitor, you will need to go to the online store in order to get a new one

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] the_wiz@feddit.org 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is the reason why I had a long and bloody fight regarding the homepage of the company I work at. And I won.

Management wanted a new homepage, marketing wanted the homepage to be - and this is a citation - "Emotional!!! And we want ENGAGEMENT!!!" (For context: We are building industrial machinery).

Marketing got an external offer (behind my back) and a mockup of the homepage based on React with animations and an dynamic background which turned every PC we looked at it with into a space heater. And they wanted to spend > 15 k € on it.

I - as something yanks would call a CTO - said no.

Everything turned quiet "Emotional!!!" for a couple of months, but in the end I won with the argument that we are building FUCKING BORING INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY, our costumers seldom change and if so, they are also from some big boring industrial company who already know us because we are in this business since Ugh, the first CEO chiseled the first iteration of our landmark product with a flintstone in 15000 BC.

The rebuild of the homepage resulted in something that is quiet nice looking... but that can also work perfectly fine in fucking DILLO!

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah good call, idek your company, site, or industry, and I don't need to. As someone who has to deal with the same shit from a customer perspective I can't hate it enough.

Professional websites should all aspire to be like McMaster-Carr's, "you know why you are here why should we bug you with bullshit, now what size roll pins did you need?" Literally one of my favorite websites of all time, no muss no fuss.

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