this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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Eh, nothing new. For the past few years I’ve had to shop though manufacturer spec pages anyway.
Retailers know most shoppers aren’t careful, though.
Instruction manuals for all sorts of cheap chinese made crap are written by machines, there are all sorts of errors and weird wordings in it too. It's been like that for at least ten years, before so called ai was released to the public.
Fine until manufacturers start doing it too