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Comment by teruakohatu | Hacker News Reader

Temu is also spending a lot of money advertising in New Zealand. The catalog is minimal and when they do have what I want it's terrible quality. Aliexpress has all the same low quality products but often mid-range and Chinese brand name products as well.

The search is terrible, it seems the app is built around getting you to impulse buy dollar store gadgets.

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Noticed this as well. Temu seems to have the lowest quality and just that of every product category pricing it about twice as other platforms.

I could get used to the app if it didn't shove 3 popups in my face every time I open it

That's Chinese Apps for you. I haven't tried TEMU yet, but the typical Chinese App opens a popup on you in what feels like every fucking second. Even something like Baidu Maps shoves an ad into your face every time you switch to another app and then back. It reminds me of early 2000s Internet, before popup/ad blockers.

Going through HN top list today on a machine with no ad blocker I see the same in pretty much all US sites: Cookie popup that is clearly illegal, lots of ads, cookies and trackers (189 on one site), then some JavaScript pop-up about whatever (newsletter mostly) when moving the mouse outside the frame. It is not any better. At most more polished but likely we are just used to it. Good thing I have adblockers in both my normal machines browser and on the firewall.

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