Modern information technology is far from perfect. Below are some examples of it.

See what I've previously wrote on this. And a possible explination for it in the technology glass wall

Someone at Google made the idiotic decision that when using Google Chrome on an Android phone if you swipe down when at the top of a page the browser does a refresh. That means the browser goes back to the internet and read loads entire webpage. This is a secondary way to refresh a web page because from the Crome menu (3 dotstop right) ther is a circle with an arrow head on it that will refresh a web page.

The, I'm sure unintended, consequences of the down swiping to refresh a web page is the often you dont no that you are at the top of a web page. A way of noing you are at the top of a page is the continue to swipe down untill the page no longer slides down. BUT with the idiotic function of the web page refreshing when swiping down when at the top of a page, rather than not scrolling, the page refreshes, often multiple times, with the consequential delays re going back to the internet. This puts additional loads on the internet which is not necessary.

But the worst case scenario is where your filling out a form and you want to scroll back to the top of the form and you go to far and the whole form is reloaded. Meaning that everything you've entered you have to re-enter again.

Even worse when you are using a cloud based application and are typing lots of text only to find when you scroll you end up losing the whole lot

For a period of time there was the ability to switch off this, swipe down to reload, function within Google Chrome. But again somebody in their idiotic wisdom at Google decided to remove that ability.

It's been like this for quite some time now. So it appears that Google don't see this as a high priority item to be fixed. Perhaps they have a reason for this. But because you can't directly communicate with Google it's impossible to no.

One of my biggest gripes about modern information technology is the messages that computer programmers and system engineers put into software that they expect end users to understand.

It's also quite obvious from the examples below that programers that the write these messages don't understand what they're doing.

When copying files from my phone to a network drive, if a file is larger than 2 gigabytes a message is shown saying that the drive is full. When in reality the drive is not full.

See:

https://youtu.be/fk3DYBKDvZs

This problem exists across multiple operating systems, indicating it could be some sort of design problem.

Also the message only comes up after the whole of the 2 GB file is near to finished copying. It would seem logical, that the program should check if there was sufficient disk space before it even starts copping. I'm sure that used to happen in previous generations of software.

Sometimes when using my phone to make payments by internet banking, I get a message that “function missing”, and I am not able to make the payment. Via experimentation I found out that if I switch the phone off and switched it back on again, I could end up making the payment.

On reporting the issue to the bank I just got a standard email saying how to use internet banking.

The message means absolutely nothing. It does not say what the function is that is missing or any explanation as to what function is needed.

The message only comes up after filling in all the information needed to make a payment. If a program function is required to make a payment, to me, it would make more sense to check if the function is available before all information about the payment is entered. So warning the end user that something cannot proceed before the end user go to the trouble of entering a lot of information.

If you use an older quiet email program to access Gmail, and a particular setting has not been set to allow Gmail to use what Google call “unsafe applications” a message saying that the password is incorrect will be displayed. When in fact the password is not incorrect.

The problem here again is lazy programming. When a password is used to access files on another computer system, some programmers assume, incorrectly, that when they don't get access the password is incorrect. When in actual fact ther could be many reasons why they are not allowed access.

Tech causes more problems than it solves

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/06/30/tech-causes-more-problems-than-it-solves/