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New Year, Same Internet Problems

TheCatWoman

I know I've posted about this before and bore many of you who know me, but I'm doing it again, the first grump of the year.

I'm becoming more and more convenced that the internet is getting worse and worse, less and less responsive to what you search for, no matter how the search is worded or what search engine you use, it just seems determined to give you what it wants and not what I've asked for. I beginging to doubt my sanity in believing that there will a different outcome to depression and frustration thats usually the result of looking for anything I want.

I wish we still had shop where you could go and look, try things on, feel things get some idea of what it is you might be buying. I saw a couple of weeks ago that more shops are starting to open physical stores again, I hope so, but then I suppose I'd still have to travel for miles, find something I like and ask if they have it in my size only to be told no and that I can get it online. At least in a physical shop a can go to the dept I want without being asked if I want something totally different a dozen times before I find one thing I might consider buying that matches what I want.

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  • Why everytime I look for somewhere to eat out it only comes up on trip adivsor that gives an AI overview of previous reviews? Or you have to go on faceache, I don't have faceache and nor do I want it!

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I don't have it either and have no desire to. I don't want lots of things I am not interested in dropping in my box. It's bad enough with cookies which I reject as much as possible.

  • in reply to Homebird

    I hate the cookie thing too, why are they called cookies anyway, what a stupid word? It's like they think if they use such a homely word you'll ignore what they are and what they do. Some sites I find don't give you an option to reject cookies, I don't use them.

    I think places like tripadvisor must be one of those that pays shed loads of money to be on the first half a dozen pages of whatever the search engine is and clog it up. Is this something government should look into? Unfair competition blocking or something?

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  • in reply to Homebird

    I hate the cookie thing too, why are they called cookies anyway, what a stupid word? It's like they think if they use such a homely word you'll ignore what they are and what they do. Some sites I find don't give you an option to reject cookies, I don't use them.

    I think places like tripadvisor must be one of those that pays shed loads of money to be on the first half a dozen pages of whatever the search engine is and clog it up. Is this something government should look into? Unfair competition blocking or something?

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  • in reply to Homebird

    It's called The Enshitification of the Internet, this is a real term for a real problem and article have been written on it and the whole term describes what you're describing and me too, how a search for something that seems quite simple and palin suddenly becomes a marathon of stress as you flick endlessly through pages of stuff you never asked for, mostly under the guise of sponsered ads. Sponsered ads aren't covovered by ad blocking software and you can't turn them off either on a search engine like google or a site like amazon. It's really annoying, it's like junk mail falling through the door or out of something like a magazine you've bought, companies pay to mess you about like this! I guess a lot of people just give in and go with it and don't bother looking at what they're buying, the rest of us just shut down the browser and find someone to rant at, I think we must be growing in number as I'm told physical shops are reopening. It always amazes me that when I look for new kindle books the first thing that comes up is romantic fiction, I've never read romantic fiction, these algorhym thingies are supposed to know us and our tastes so well, how can they get something so basic so wrong?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    What I don't get is when you search for the specific name of a shop and the first item is a different one. Also if it says sponsored I choose the entry which doesn't say that, as I heard once a reason why not to use the sponsored one.