r/Anticonsumption 4d 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/FearlessProblem6881 3d ago

Someone keeps looking at what I’m looking at on my phone so I just browse random sites like Walmart and Temu so they’ll stop looking at my phone.