over the last few years i've been impressed at how many websites have just stopped working. major businesses, sometimes megacorps. essential functions that simply don't function correctly. basic login, for instance, a thing that worked for literally 20 years, is now broken all over the place.
it's been at least three years, maybe five, since the pizza hut website could remember that I'm logged in, and it does what an awful lot of sites do now: the "hut rewards" link will show my balance, but next to that I get a sign in link, or it'll say "Hello, [name]" but the rewards number is a sign in link. this happens all over the place now, tons of websites will show that i'm logged in and out simultaneously, on the same page. or I'll log in, it'll look fine, then I'll click on "orders" or "profile" and it asks me to log in again. I do so, and then land on a half-broken page where obviously half the elements still think I'm not logged in. amazon does this. ebay. paypal.
digikey's website constantly spits error modals and randomly redirects me back to pages I'm already on. my cart has eight items in it, but I click on it and it shows up empty until i refresh. i've placed three orders in the last month and dozens before that; none appear in My Orders, not a single one. order status links in emails go nowhere.
it's not possible that my account is broken - certainly not accounts on dozens or maybe hundreds of websites. I haven't done anything unusual on any of them, i just signed up like any normal person. it's been happening across a half dozen PCs and installs, different browsers, the works. it's not adblock, I've tried turning it off. happens on my phone too. i think shit is just broken now.
