Online Shopping in 2005 vs 2022

>2005 >Go to online store webpage >Search for the item you want >Checkout >2022 >Go to online store webpage >This website uses cookies. Allow cookies? >Allow >Allow this website to know your location? >Block >Allow this website to send notifications? >Block >Popup covering screen appears. Enter your email now for 10% off! >Close popup >Fake chat appears, Jill would like to assist you >Close chat >Finally get to the search bar, start entering text >Javascript wasn't finished loading, search bar gets deselected halfway through typing >Click the search bar again, finish typing, hit enter >Item you want appears, try to click it >More javascript loads before you click, the page rearranges itself, now you've clicked something else >Close webpage and toss monitor out the window

A tired-looking Pepe the Frog is paired with a 4chan-style greentext comparing simple online shopping in 2005 with the barrage of cookies, location requests, notifications, popups, fake chats, and broken JavaScript found on modern websites. The punchline is the exaggerated final reaction: abandoning the webpage and throwing the monitor out the window. People send it as a reaction to frustrating web design and annoying online shopping experiences.

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