@ocean Kill Me Please

@ocean at least you can view the status without registering an account!

@ocean wait, before you navigate away, do you want to sign up for our newsletter?!

@ocean Yesterday UPS pages kept refreshing after five seconds. Parcel FTW.

@ocean 🤯

@ocean you can avoid all that https://parcelsapp.com/en

@ocean not much better clicking a random reddit link in the search engine. Before I let that bloatware load to completion, I move my mouse to the address bar and change the hostname from reddit to a libreddit instance I trust. Unfortunately, that won't work with parcel tracking.

@ocean@raru.re Ooo you got lucky though. 99% of the time when I get a tracking link from a corporation I only a error page that there is no associated package.

@ocean the package tracks you

@ocean What about the other browser tab with the merchant shop that is showing shipping info that is in it's own parallel universe 😅

@ocean the best part is that in the end you'll just notice another line appear in the transit log that says "recipient couldn't be reached, package diverted to pick-up point" and nobody's been to your door all day

@ocean@raru.re I feel ya

@ocean aarrrrgh

@ocean

Pop up hell. 😑

I’m still waiting on something that I ordered in November that’s been stuck in the black hole that is Customs in NYC since December 12. It’ll probably be expired by the time it actually arrives.

@ocean heh, UPS are the worst of them too. My favourite from them was: compulsory account signup ("UPS My Choice®" 🙄) to track a parcel, and at the end of signup being told I'd need a code sent to me by letter to sign in. The letter arrived the day after the package

@ocean this site is way less shit on mobile using firefox...

@ocean jesus christ.

@ocean dam now i miss the public postal service even more.

@ocean why tf is their page reddit coded

@ocean

"Privacy policy" 🤣🤣🤣

They've turned the word into its opposite, as corporations and their political friends do with so many words..

@blogdiva

@ocean package tracks you

@ocean @gardevoir i have to pay for a separate app to track my packages as i refuse to deal with this shit anymore

@ocean Wow is like the "updated" UPS App like 100x worse than the old one?

@ocean
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Struck gold.

@ocean

Well, at least they didn't call you...
...
...
...right?

@ocean parcelsapp.com

@ocean scary :(

@ocean 17track.net is pretty good imo

@ocean Just use https://www.aftership.com/track instead.

#ProblemSolved

@ocean or when you get an email saying it’s using something called ‘shop’ and you can only do it by downloading an app

@ocean This uhhhh…. tracks. 😂

I get the we'll-get-you-a-delivery-date-ASAP message, every time I try, and then it just shows up.

@ocean @Meyerweb I cannot recommend this app enough: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/parcel/id375589283

Use it constantly. Though, I'm an IT Director and am constantly shipping tech things to staff.

@ocean I have never seen any good implementation on any website ever of those stupid "do a survey about our site" overlays

@ocean
Get tracked fool

@ocean Don't ask what UPS can do for you, ask yourself, what you can do for them 🙃

@ocean its crazy. They are shipping from mars nowadays

@ocean tbf you did get the actual information immediately.

@ocean Ick! I can’t stand that crap!

I use Hush for Safari on Mac. It removes a lot of crap (most all Cookie messages at least). Have a pi-hole on my network so I see no ads while browsing the web. These 2 things make browsing around great.

When I have to use our work VPN (which negates my pi-hole), I get slammed with ads. I then realize how truly bad browsing without these things is.

https://oblador.github.io/hush/

https://pi-hole.net

@ocean@raru.re this was terrifying, but then I noticed that uBlock shows 42 blocked ads, and it suddenly became even more terrifying.

@ocean https://www.17track.net ?

@ocean hellscape

@ocean This is the real reason why JavaScript was invented. Seriously tho why do they need this many popups? I would leave the website after this

@ocean in fascist America, package tracks you!

@ocean adblock is useless when the entire page is an ad.

@ocean overloading

@ocean ... and uBlock Origin already blocked 42 things ... 🙈

If you want to have an even greater user experience, try open one of that cooking recipe sites on your mobile phone.

@ocean And that's with an adblocker, I can't imagine how much worse this would be considering it says it's blocked 42 elements here lol

@ocean In capitalist USA, package tracks you!

@ocean Web designers really just need to look at a design guidelines. Or, more accurately, their managers do. They'll tell whoever to knock this shit off. That's good advice.

@ocean crazier still, that's with uBlock Origin too.

@ocean this looks like justification of content blockers usage 😅

@ocean Is this what using Chrome is like? This is why I use Firefox with uBlock Origin.

@ocean "ups wants to know your location" :thonking:​

@ocean

@ocean in soviet russia package track YOU!

@ocean My reaction

@ocean@raru.re truly what a disaster of a time

@ocean
You fool!

@ocean track package? By the time you're done clicking it will have arrived

@ocean Truly this has become such a problem and I can't believe how few people even seem to realize it.

Once upon a time we had to have popup blockers because of this hot mess. Now they just render it in frame so it is 10,000x harder to block. And at least back in the day it was just the low grade sites that did this. Now, just as this image shows, it's the bigger companies themselves who are the worst offenders.

@ocean I don’t need to track its every move from warehousing to shipping to my front door. All I really need is the assurance that my package is “on its way”. I don’t know what these package-tracker apps are for other than to satisfy the human urge to watch paint dry.

@ocean@raru.re Jesus fucking christ. Making Poste Italiane look competent

@ocean @lisamelton And then it has the gall to tell you “this is the same info our customer service agents see so don’t bother calling us.”

@ocean If you try to track a package you should be in consent with our tracking of you. It's just fair: tit for tat.

@ocean how did we go so wrong.

@ocean oshy is cute, according to top right thumbnail

@ocean good LORD

@ocean The maniacs! They actually did it!

@ocean
Scary to see this. Parts of this hell are blocked here in my Firefox by the I Still Dont Care About Cookies add on. However, even the remaining ones are incredibly annoying.

@ocean
@hosford42

And this is why I use client applications for as many things as possible.
Email? Client - Kmail, and K9
News? Send it to Wallabag that syncs to my RSS.

If there is a desktop application for it, that is likely what I'm using

@ocean gotta love that it's this messy with uBlock active. Imagine it wasn't.

@ocean First thing that I do on entirely too many sites now is hit that uBlock Origin shield and then the eyedropper and pick apart their page until it's respectable again.

@ocean I thought we had killed pop up windows but they eventually… popped right back up…

@ocean
i don't think unpinned dependancies are THAT bad

@ocean and then once you defeat all the popups... "Label created"

@ocean So much enshittification in one screenshot.

@ocean "Mail Innovations is not a day definite service" oh, good to know!

@ocean In Corporate Empire America, package track you!

@ocean all the while here (NL) UPS routinely do "fake not home" because apparently their drivers are overworked and it is easier for them to pretend to have tried a delivery to make KPIs...

@ocean .. and the actual status is fake

@ocean

It’s somehow even more horrible to see it laid out here, like a butterfly pinned in a naturalist’s display, than it is when you’re in the middle of it. Just clicking furiously to get through it as quickly as possible.

@ocean everything is fine: you can read the essentials without connecting to Meta 😕

@ocean there is still abput 40% of the webpage visible. They could put some ads there...

@ocean UPS is uniquely shite and I'm annoyed whenever a company uses them

@ocean Pop-ups, crowded layout, dancing baloney - we've come full circle back to 1990s Web site design.

@ocean I have to deal with that site nearly everyday for work and it's an absolute bloated piece of garbage. Even on an overpowered PC it feels super slow and sluggish when creating a label. :dragnangry:

@ocean
Just got glasses from eyebuydirect. They make you download this stupid app that pissed me off so much I've blanked on the name.
It also connects to your Amazon, if you want to.
Guess what the only order that kept getting screwed up and I never even knew when it was coming.
Eyebuydirect!
Fuckers.

@ocean@raru.re im more surprised it actually accepted your tracking code

@ocean@raru.re (villan's voice) you consent... you consent... mwahaha!