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>The most rational explanation for this is Temu is using a Javascript framework that also expects to be run offline (it's localized in multiple languages), they
by anonym29 2y ago
>The most rational explanation for this is Temu is using a Javascript framework that also expects to be run offline (it's localized in multiple languages), they are querying some dead resource that shows this naive lazy error, and never redirected the page. Explains everything.
Really? That's more plausible than a company being greedy and simply trying to deceive would-be unsubscribing users to continue pushing ads their way for profit?
Occam's Razor.
- seattle_spring 2y agoHanlon's Razor would support the "broken API" theory.
- anonym29 2y agoYup, wrong Razor, my bad - corrected my original post.
- K0balt 2y agoAre you sure you didn’t get it wrong on purpose just to preemptively sabotage any potential argument? /s It is surprisingly hard to give companies the benefit of the doubt these days, with dark patterns being somehow normalised … we have learned to assume bad faith.
- james_marks 2y agoI shopped on Temu recently to understand what it was, and there were clear examples of this kind of dark pattern, so I’m biased to assume malice in this case. I don’t remember all of it, but opening a million tabs so it’s hard to leave the site is one example.
- JohnFen 2y agoWhy would they even code that, though? Your device will already tell you if you've lost your internet connection. This looks like incompetent sneaky stuff rather than incompetent legitimate stuff to me.
- seattle_spring 2y agoLots of SPAs detect when the Internet goes out or the server goes unresponsive so the experience is consistent and can be recovered without a page refresh once the problem is resolved.
- JohnFen 2y agoInteresting. I didn't know that, thank you.
- jvanderbot 2y agoHanlons razor states that you shouldn't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. As far as I can tell, you've used it against your own argument. Greed (malice) is less preferred as an argument vs a non-robust implementation (incompetence).