Comment by ๐Ÿš€ lars_the_bear

Re: "Xfinity/Cockmast Bad!"

In: u/stack

@stack : they pretty much all suck. People are no longer willing to pay a bit more for a better service, so there's a mad rush to the bottom of the market.

I don't think that's anybody's fault: it's hard to judge quality of service, but it's easy to compare prices. I was bragging earlier about how my VPS only costs 83 cents a month, but that was before I had to contact their tech support. Now I know why it's so cheap.

๐Ÿš€ lars_the_bear

Mar 22 ยท 7 weeks ago

1 Later Comment

๐Ÿš€ lars_the_bear ยท Mar 22 at 08:19:

Also: I'd never heard of "Cockmast" so I put it into a search engine. Oh, my. That's not a mistake I'll make again.

Original Post

๐Ÿš€ stack

Xfinity/Cockmast Bad! โ€” It took me 45 minutes to pay my bill today. I tried 3 different computers with various browsers, and finally did it on my phone with Chrome. It takes minutes for pages to load at their pay system, and you have to disable uBlock and Privacy Badger and all that, even though the site loads tens of web bugs and tracking crap. So it took more than 10 minutes each time, going through 2FA texts and delays just to find out that nope, this won't work. I have to do this every...

๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 comments ยท Mar 22 ยท 7 weeks ago