They have a name for it: Dead Sea Effect.

Your first paragraph reminded me of a short story: There Will Come Soft Rains.

According to this, Texas has ~7% of their prison population in private facilities. The national rate is ~8%.

I had one recently that (when changing / creating the password) would allow you paste into the “new password” field but not the “confirm password” field. Super annoying.

I just opened dev tools, pasted it into the “value” property for the control, and kept on truckin’. Just nuts that had to be done though.

Oh man, you’d love this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEfNeUdq_C0

This is why I gave up trying to run my own email server. It became clear it was turning into a racket quite a while ago. I would hear from someone that they didn’t receive an email, so I’d check with their provider and sure enough I’d been blackholed.

I’d go through all the steps to clear everything, re-send the message and it would go. Send a second message and my server was instantly blackholed again for “spamming” or “suspected open relay” or some other reason. All the “Big Guys” as you call them of course carved out exceptions for each other, but no matter how many security signatures or other measures I implemented it was basically an instant lockout.

It got to the point where I was forced to sign on with a “Big” provider for routing.