literally any site/service which advertises itself as "free" and then AT THE VERY LAST STEP it asks for your credit card info. i gtfo out of there the moment I see it
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I can't get my Medi-Cal insurance back because the official government site to apply simply does not fucking work.
"We use cookies. Pay us or allow us to sell your data." I guess I'll find that info somewhere else then :)
Job offer that require registering and read from resume falsly so i have to fix everything the job experience and education etc
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.
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. 😮💨
Honestly, AI websites that do sound like they're talking about the right topic are worse. You'll get halfway through the steps and realize it's bullshit and wasted your fucking time
Recipe websites that have a 15 page story for each recipe without a way to skip to the actual recipe.
This is a quirk of copyright law. You can’t copyright a recipe unless it’s attached to a story. Because recipes aren’t considered creative works, for some reason. So you’re not copyrighting the recipe; You’re copyrighting the story, which was a creative writing exercise. Basically, without a story attached to it, the recipe is free for anyone to steal and resell in a cookbook or paid site.
There's probably some SEO "hack" involved, too.
Either way, as a user, it's infuriating.
Any website that insists on emailing you a login link rather than just using a password. Then they treat it like a positive and say “no more passwords!” Fuck you.
Microsoft likes defaulting to email-based login, and I always click on the option to enter my password instead, but after doing that it sends me an email with a verification code anyways. Seriously???
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.
I used to put my photos on DeviantArt, I had an account for ~20 years on that site, and it got slower and worse over time, finally I just had enough and deleted my account and built a simple HTML menu and exported galleries from DigiKam and put on a personal webhost, it is far, far, far faster than any big social media image sharing platform, and it looks retro and cool.
I have also got myself a Pixelfed account:
It loads faster than dA did and is easy to use.
Trying to recover a password on Spotify - "We have no record of that email address."
So I try to create a new account with that email - "This email address already exists in our system."
Yeah that's happened to me too; as far as I can tell it's just Spotify silently banning your account. Must've signed up for one too many free trials.
Not at all. It was just an account I hadn't used for a while and had forgotten the password to. I was trying to sign up for premium so I could listen to albums on the Android app.
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
Korean websites. I won't even list all the frustrations here, omg there's so many. It's like a shitty 90s yahoo webpage with so much gatekeeping, engagement bait, arbitrary moderation, minimal community engagement, no customization or curation, impossible authentication demands, so on and so on.
and it's like the fucking standard, everywhere! in a country with maybe the best internet in the world!
oh yea and it doesn't work except with IE!! forced edge use! its like a Ferrari in wooden wheels. fuuuck i hate korean webdesign culture
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"
Just this past Friday I had a pile of boxes I had to scan barcodes on. Two barcodes per box.
The issue was the form did nothing when you pressed enter, and required tab to get from the first field to the second (a 2nd tab would start a new row, so it was at least equipped for multiple entries).
Most barcode scanners, if you're unfamiliar, insert a linefeed character (ASCII 0x0A) after each successful scan.
It took me an unbearably long time to read through the 250 page user guide / programming manual for our barcode scanner to figure out how to change this to tab (0x09). It required no fewer than SIX barcodes to be scanned; enter programming mode / modify suffix / 0 / 9 / validate / save, which were spread across three pages of the manual (fortunately it had links, because also >100 pages apart).
It was worth it in the end, but it would have taken 5 minutes for them to code it to allow enter to switch between fields. This workflow is the only thing this site does, it's unreasonable to expect people wouldn't be using a barcode scanner.
Canon.com refused to show me the final price before clicking pay now
There's the old saying: "If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it."
So they're either incompetent, are hoping you are, or they're playing to this logic and only want rich customers.
These options are not mutually exclusive either.
"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.
Tech support web site that had incomplete or inaccurate information
So apart from the websites that are purely based around being obnoxious so you'll subscribe to their premium plan I'd say GitHub has been the least intuitive place to navigate for me.
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.
Try to sign in for Amazon Kindle unlimited
school website that required adobe flash for menu, silverlight for some other feature and activex for homework
Wow, Silverlight - now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
The new Twitter has an 'x' in the top right corner that does not close the page. Asshole design.
I have actually tried to get rid of a Twitter embed by clicking on the "X"
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.
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.
Twitter, after it became X. Due to the downsizing and automation of everything I can't even delete my account because the hell(p) pages send me in a three page loop.
Downloading VMware Workstation from Broadcom. They made it free but they definitely didn't make getting it easy. What's worse, in-app updates have been broken since Broadcom takeover, meaning you need to navigate their shitty website every time you want to update.
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