The Internet Sucks
Reject All is one click, unless somebody paid for it to be twelve
Consent banners were meant to give you a choice. Most of them are engineered so that one choice is exhausting and the other is a…
Kartik Sahoo
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Kartik writes about workplace absurdity, having survived eleven years of it.
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8 articles
The Internet Sucks
Why the recipe sits at the bottom of a short memoir
The story above the ingredients is not self-indulgence. It is a rational response to how search engines and advertising both work.
The Internet Sucks
Infinite scroll removed the bottom of the page on purpose
The end of a list used to be a natural place to stop. Somebody noticed that stopping points cost engagement, and deleted them.
The Internet Sucks
Only three left, apparently, for the last six months
Countdown timers and scarcity badges are conversion tools. Some of them describe real stock, and telling the difference takes ten…
The Internet Sucks
To stop receiving these emails, please remember a password you never set
Unsubscribing should be one click. When it is not, the friction is doing exactly what friction always does.
Tech That Sucks
The battery is fine, it is just that everything is awake
Background activity, network searching and screen brightness explain almost all unexpected battery drain, and only one of them is…
The Internet Sucks
The video started playing and then followed you down the page
Autoplay exists because a played video counts as an impression. The little floating window exists because you tried to scroll away…
The Internet Sucks
Your password must contain a symbol, and not that symbol
Composition rules were designed to force variety and instead produced a predictable pattern that everybody follows and attackers…