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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] -5 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Honestly that EU cookie legislation does more harm than good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

how??? I mean, really now? How does the GDPR cause harm? I mean, it harms the greedy marketing corporations and data farmings, but that's good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

No, it forces people to actively take a stand about the surveillance and exploitation of your data. Without it those things just happens automatically (they still do of course, but not in the form of cookies at least).

Anyway, get the consent-o-matic extension for your browser, it seriously lessens the annoyance, although companies are beginning to take notice of it and are making attempts at circumventing it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

No, this is malicious compliance bullshit. About as clever as a three year old asking if dolly can have a sweetie instead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Yeah. Although I don't get why they can't just not use cookies?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago (1 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Not in the same measure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Not to mention the popup ads...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

c/overemployed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 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

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