Oh wow, I did this for the better part of my grownup life without having a name for it. I called it "Self-Solving Problems" after reading "SEP field" in a Douglas Adams book:
"An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem."
Once used a cheap hosting company that didn't allow to post tickets in the weekend. I asked why, they said 'because by Monday most people have solved the problems themselves. I replied; by that logic, you should only allow tickets one day in the week, perhaps for a single hour on that day..
I guess my point is; it makes for bad customer service to not communicate.
They have a point though. They are not working on the weekend, so it does not matter whether you file the ticket on Saturday or Monday. If you solve the issue yourself they don't have to do anything. If you can't, you can always file it at 9am.
TechCrunch works without javascript, which is quite nice from them though. Compare it some others, where the content is literally loaded after consent, using js.
We use user agent histogram as a security litmus test on our payment sites. If we see a spike of a smaller set of user agents without increased traffic (or a longer ‘tail’), we can almost be certain that something shady is going on. Not super useful as in, we can’t just block every legit looking user agent, but it notifies the analytics team that can then dig deeper.
Putting this here for the argument's sake: I think children do get bored with all the distractions from internet, screens and what not. If you've ever seen a teenager mindlessly scroll Instagram on their iPhone, that look is pure boredom.
Notice that for an activity such as looking at your friends' photos online, allocating your last 15 minutes before hitting the pillow and allocating what's seemingly every hour of every day won't have the same effect.
1924 cars took a lot of labor on an on-going basis to keep running. (Hell, 1960s cars took a lot of labor to keep running as compared to today's cars that visit a mechanic perhaps annually.)
"An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem