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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."

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

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. 😮‍💨

"We use cookies. Pay us or allow us to sell your data." I guess I'll find that info somewhere else then :)

Canon.com refused to show me the final price before clicking pay now

"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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Job offer that require registering and read from resume falsly so i have to fix everything the job experience and education etc

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.

Requires 2FA for login, but doesn’t support time-based authenticator codes / setting up an authenticator app

Code is successfully emailed / sent via SMS

“Code is invalid. Please try again.”

Also, any system where the code is requested but never arrives.

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. :-)

The new Twitter has an 'x' in the top right corner that does not close the page. Asshole design.

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.

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.

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.

school website that required adobe flash for menu, silverlight for some other feature and activex for homework

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.

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

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.

Tech support web site that had incomplete or inaccurate information

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.

A popular EHR cloud service that we use has a developer portal where operations such as logging in or entering two-factor codes would take upwards of 2 minutes to process.

When I asked our rep about it they went "eh it's normal".

This same company designed a XML SOAP API where if you request too much data, it just returns a HTTP 200 with no content. No error message or formatted SOAP reply, just completely nonsensical response.

I hate this company but there's literally very few choices in this space.

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

DHL. Fucking DHL. Not sure if it fits your question but I got triggered badly here.

They removed all forms of contact except WhatsApp and their shitty z broken chat bot. If there is ever a use case for LLM than this is it. But they use s system that can either sell you stamps or breaks.

Oh but you can call them. Do you can talk to there chat bot. Once you've broken it enough for it to grant an audience with a human being the connection drops.

I very rarely get worked up by broken systems but someone else chose to use this shit shoe and I'm now imprisoned in their web of bullshit.

I think Id have to say youtube. That shitty site just keeps getting shittier and just when you think they cant fuck things up more than they have they set new standards of shitty shitfullness.

There was once a day long ago when the next video in que was remotely relevant to your query or previously played video. Now you could be watching a documentary and two videos later they are shoveling some completely irrelevant shit at you.

Then they started vpn blocking. 95℅ of the time I cant even play a video. Or it plays for a minute then errors out with "something went wrong".

For years yt-dlp saved my ass when I needed a video. Now works about 10% of the time.

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