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by GoodDreams 2751 days ago
Similarly travel booking sites add an artificial delay otherwise travelers don’t believe the site tried hard enough to find the best deals.
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TurboTax Online is just an hour long series of delays to give the impression that server farms are struggling to do work that could be handled instantly by a Commodore 64.
Wow. Do airlines do this as well? I literally will not fly American Airlines anymore because their website is so unbearably slow when looking for flights (not that United or others are much better).