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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
“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.”
We respect your privacy and only share your data with 508 resellers.
“I see this as an absolute win”
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.
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”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is why I hate DHL:
Why do they need soooo many different shipping systems, and why do I as the recipient need to care?
I have been in the situation where I was trying to track a package, but because I was in the wrong portal or selected the wrong DHL service, it claimed that it had no idea about the package.
How hard can it be to have one unified tracking number?
Something like:
DHL<SERVICE_CODE><ID>
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”
