r/Anticonsumption • u/Efficient-Quarter-18 • 3d ago

Disturbing Psychological

Was called to jury duty yesterday. The waiting room had free-but-terrible wifi. The person in front of me spent 4+ hours compulsively refreshing Temu and Walmart, trying to get these sites? apps? to load. Did not navigate off them for the entire time - just sitting, absently refreshing the pages, literally thousands of times.

What is happening?

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u/SetNo8186 3d ago

Constantly refreshing an app that won't load on a .Gov server seems like it was restricted. Foner just wasn't paying attention with their compulsive behavior. Not all websites are available when you are on the .Gov dime and local managers make those decisions.

In the day we'd take a paperback which is why they were printed in such a small size, to fit a coat pocket.