The Worst Website in the Entire World

Broadcom / VMware Website Experience

• Many describe the Broadcom/VMware support and download portals as hostile and confusing: broken or circular navigation, hard-to-find downloads, 404s redirected to the front page, and multi-page PDFs explaining basic tasks.
• Some note this pattern is common after acquisitions: older product-specific sites are folded into a generic corporate portal and effectively buried.
• A few point out that Broadcom’s making VMware Fusion/Workstation “free” coincides with a strategy to sunset them, not to invest in them.

Enterprise & Corporate UX Patterns

• Commenters generalize the Broadcom experience to “enterprise software”: SAP, Oracle, IBM Fix Central, SailPoint, SAP Ariba, Globalsign, etc. are cited as similarly maze-like and user-hostile.
• One explanation: internal portals often generate support tickets, which are a profit center or justify headcount, unlike consumer sites where friction directly hurts revenue.
• Others contrast this with utilities and billing sites, which tend to have at least the payment path reasonably polished.

Password, Security, and Browser-Hostile UX

• Disabling paste in password fields and over-complicated password rules are widely condemned as both usability and security anti-patterns.
• Defenses mentioned: avoiding clipboard-based malware, preventing copy-paste of mistyped passwords, reducing support load, satisfying outdated infosec checklists or regulators.
• Multiple people argue this harms disabled users, encourages weaker memorized passwords, and is often enforced by security/management over developer objections.
• Technical workarounds (browser settings, extensions, password managers that “type” instead of paste) are discussed.

Control of the Browser and User Data

• One long comment uses “don’t mess with my browser” as a springboard to critique click-wrap agreements, device “ownership,” lock-in of user content on platforms, and AI models harvesting online text without attribution or royalties.
• The argument is that tech has shifted value from users’ work to platforms through dark patterns and enclosure of the digital commons.

Other “Worst Websites” & Aesthetic Outliers

• Arngren, LingsCars, Yvette’s Bridal, and similar chaotic sites are repeatedly referenced. Many find them charming, fast, and authentic despite (or because of) their visual chaos.
• In contrast, corporate sites like Workday, government portals, banks/insurers, Google Play Console, and others are seen as blandly evil: slow, opaque, and built to serve internal metrics rather than users.