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verall ◴[] No.36447353[source]
A lot of people are bringing up Wirth's law or other things, but I want to get more specific.

Has anyone else noticed how bad sign-on redirect flows have gotten in the past ~5 years?

It used to be you clicked sign in, and then you were redirected to a login page. Now I typically see my browser go through 4+ redirects, stuck at a white screen for 10-60 seconds.

I'm a systems C++ developer and I know nothing about webdev. Can someone _please_ fill me in on what's going on here and how every single website has this new slowness?

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1. devnullbrain ◴[] No.36448930[source]
I use Firefox containers with Temporary Containers (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...) so oh boy do I deal with this a lot. With some hacking I can stop the page at the right time to make it 'always open in X container' - there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to glob for different subdomains.