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 but select a flight when I use Safari or Brave on the Mac. If I want to actually fly with KLM I need to use the DuckDuckGo browser. Go figure.

I used to work with web designers and project managers, good ones, and so I know a bit about user testing and stuff. The fact that this appears severely lacking in some quite major websites is amusing, but with no way to feed back to said sites exactly how useless their sites are it will not improve. Oh well.

Anyway, none of this is radio related!