9 stories tagged enshittification, newest first.
350 points by nohell | 235 comments
An anonymous essay on Nonograph arguing for writing software and giving it away free, citing the platform's own low costs versus subscription-driven enshittification.
335 points by geox | 585 comments
El País English culture article examining why the quality of products and services, from airline seats to clothing to customer service, seems to be declining.
430 points by rkaveland | 307 comments
A blog essay by Robin Kåveland using a library metaphor to critique how modern websites and the internet push ads and distractions on visitors.
816 points by anotherevan | 632 comments
A Mastodon post arguing Brother became the recommended printer brand because competitors made their printers worse through anti-consumer 'innovation' while Brother didn't.
399 points by isoprophlex | 418 comments
A personal blog post venting about the poor, intrusive software in the author's modern car and the broader enshittification of vehicles.
1311 points by ivee | 721 comments
A Substack essay by Ivan Vendrov arguing that consumer software gets worse over time because companies optimize for the least-engaged marginal user.
887 points by g0xA52A2A | 296 comments
Techdirt opinion piece by Mike Masnick criticizing Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal as DRM for the web and a betrayal of its open-web values.
495 points by dasil003 | 350 comments
A Marginalia weblog post arguing that venture-capital-funded social media inevitably degrades online communities, citing the 2023 Reddit controversy.
405 points by xavdid | 341 comments
Blog post by David Brownman introducing a tool to build a searchable SQLite archive of your Reddit data ahead of Reddit's June 2023 API changes.