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On the other hand, why does every shopping, manufacturer, parts supplier, etc. Have to paginate everything? That only makes sense if you are trying to increase page views with ads. It is frustrating to have to click next, re load all the background clutter, sometimes every ten items.

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It is most likely just a relic from slower internet connections. Anyone who was browsing in the early 2000s didn't want an unknown number of images downloading all at once, especially on a mobile device. It does have little value these days but keep in mind some people are still on slow connections, and some categories of search results can be quite large.

You might as well ask why Google results paginate but you probably answered it (ads).

I much prefer pagination, because I can get back to where I was. There are technical ways to make infinite scroll deep-linkable but I almost never see it in practice.

I'd guess because it's a PITA to do infinite scroll "right" and make the thing work properly with the back button.

I've always wondered if this has something to do with instilling a feeling of artificial scarcity.

Oftentimes it is so that you have to interact with the website which subsequently allows the webpage to autoplay media with audio or track engagement with a particular piece of content.

Or just offload their servers cause infinite scroll makes the process of loading additional pages mindlessly faster and much less cumbersome.

There are multiple browser extensions for generic infinite scroll, like AutoPagerize, AutoPatchWork etc. so...

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