Useless websites
Certain websites are becoming terrible these days and for no reason other, I suspect than poor or non-existent testing. I am actually trying to buy a cooker hood. I made a shortlist of 4, one poor, three ok. I went with one from a company but when I got to the ordering screen it wanted to add nearly £15 for delivery. This had not been made clear before. So, the second choice was from Amazon, free delivery. I tried to order this in Safari on the Mac but, after logging in and adding the OTP code I got a blank screen. So I tried via the DuckDuckGo browser - same thing, a blank screen. Plenty of code, pages of scripts and obfuscated stuff, just nothing rendered. I resorted to the Amazon app and this time Amazon told me the product cannot be delivered to our address. No explanation. Anyway, goodbye Amazon. Again. I actually ditched Amazon when as a Prime user paying annually they decided they were going to inject adverts into films even though I was paying for Prime. I ended up paying the delivery charge with the other company. KLM is another infuriating site. I can do everything…
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