I feel like various websites have gotten markedly worse over the past 2 months.
Like over the weekend, I was trying to buy something from Ikea, and I was finding like 15 second wait times in trying to nav the site.
And I'm not picking on Ikea specifically, because every site I've been engaging with feels for w/e reason a little extra glitchy.
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I know these are vibes, not facts.
The challenge is whenever I start to try to pin down exactly what feels off.
It's no longer there when I get back to it.
It feels like I'm being actively gaslit.
So this is mostly just me being like, am I actually the only one feeling this way?
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@raiderrobert not just you. It’s felt this way the past 2 or 3 years, and has seemingly ramped up since the start of the year on big sites, specifically (e)commerce sites. I’m noticing way more blocking cookie banners, dick bars, captchas, unresponsive navigation, page reloading triggered by the site itself, and layout jumping around.
I partially attribute it to my network based adblocker, as well as extension based adblockers, where sites have to try harder to extract value from me, but still
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