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fromThe Verge
2 days ago

How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet

Hello, and welcome to Decoder. This is Sarah Jeong, features editor at The Verge. I'm standing in for Nilay for one final Thursday episode here as he settles back into full-time hosting duties. Today, we've got a fun one. I'm talking to Cory Doctorow, prolific author, internet activist, and arguably one of the fiercest tech critics writing today. He has a new book out called Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.
Artificial intelligence
Digital life
fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

A theory why the internet is going down the toilet

Enshittification describes a predictable platform lifecycle: early user-first incentives shift over time toward extraction by advertisers and merchants, degrading user experience.
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Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?

AI recommendation systems risk degradation when companies prioritize profit, replicating platforms' pattern of diminishing user value once market dominance is achieved.
E-Commerce
fromSlate Magazine
2 weeks ago

Your Favorite Tech Products Are Getting Worse. Here's How We Can Fix It.

Amazon leverages platform dominance and pricing tactics to create illusory Prime Day deals, exploiting shoppers and sellers and driving consumer backlash.
Digital life
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Online platforms systematically degrade by prioritizing business customers and extracting value, turning user-focused services into monetized, degraded products in a predictable three-stage process.
US politics
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Colin Murphy: Yes, things are getting worse... and we even have a word for it now

Enshittification describes the detrimental decline of systems like the internet and global affairs, worsened by leaders like Donald Trump, with Ireland facing unique vulnerabilities.
fromSubstack
3 months ago

The General Theory of Enshittification

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."
Tech industry
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