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Similarly travel booking sites add an artificial delay otherwise travelers don’t believe the site tried hard enough to find the best deals.


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).




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