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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.
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fromNextbigideaclub
8 hours ago

Why Does Everything Online Suck Now?

Platform businesses undergo a three-stage decline—user capture, publisher commodification, and degraded user experience—driven by surveillance, per-user rule changes, and monetization pressures.
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