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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days 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] 2 points 2 days 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] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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] 7 points 2 days 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 2 days 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] 2 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

Not in the same measure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days 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] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not to mention the popup ads...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days 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] 7 points 2 days 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] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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] 12 points 2 days 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.

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