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I think the time I was like 7 and was looking at hamster photos on Google to print and cut out. Scrolling along I couldn't find any that looked exactly like my hamster named Cinnamon after a black streak along his back.
Getting to the 3rd or 4th "load more" buttons on Google and it started showing me stuff that wasn't hamsters I got desperate. I saw there were a few images that had text along the top and bottom, "for more cute hamster photos go to xhamster.com".

So naturally, I went there.

Turns out xhamster.com was not a site where hamsters share selfies and is, instead, pornography.

Adobe.

Once, you sign in, good luck finding anything you need.

Time Cube (now archived). I feel bit bad saying it, but omg the layout. It was bad even by 90s standards.

Edit: the creator died in 2015.

Edit2: CW, anti-queer rhetoric, but I find it very hard to take it seriously in the midst of waves hands vaguely at the rest of the website

fcc.gov. Those goddamn "Sign into the Federal Fucked Up Document System with your FFUDS PIN now" things that just don't actually work. The layers of garbage between you and renewing an amateur radio certificate is truly Idiocratic.

Comcast. I dare you to try to cancel or change your cable and internet package.

Publisher's Clearing House.

So this company has ads on local free tv stations in the US about how you could win $5000 a week for life, but when you go to the website it's like 97% ads and maybe 2% contests, and some contests are straight up unenterable if you have an adblocker. Then before you can officially enter, you have to go through 3 pages of 'as seen on tv' crap that it tries to sell you before you can finish entering. Also it lags like a motherfucker with or without an adblocker, cause there's so many ads taking up that much bandwith, cause heaven forbid a webpage ad be a static image. And of course you have to have an account, so your spam folder and paper mailbox fill up with the worst things possible.

Usually webapps.

literally any restaurant website. I disabled Facebook from my entire network (pihole).

I can no longer order food on a website because Facebook is deadzoned.

Also, about half of big box brick and mortar online stores stopped working as well.

Spotify. Only website/service that makes their service intentionally worst and people still pay for it

It's hard to pick out one as THE worst, but generally, if I have to use the site for some external reason, the experience is awful.

Health insurance, doctor's offices, etc are generally pretty bad. Oddly, tax sites aren't as rough.

Also oddly, vacation related websites are awful.

Seemingly every recipe website. They tell a long, unrelated story, cover the page with ads, popups, slideouts, timer triggered ads, videos, etc.

It's almost impossible to see the recipe under all the crap.

Try using Instagram without an account and no app, basically impossible.

Pintrest is the worst website ever built and has caused immense damage to the free sharing of information.

4chan. When I saw a German shepherd get hit in the face with a shovel full force, I decided the site wasn't for me.

x.com

Reddit.

Fragile Mods. Shitty trolls. Dishonest engagements. Little to no good discussion. Opinions are seen as attacks. Power-tripping users and mods alike. Karma whores.