#enshittification

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I review @pluralistic 's Enshittification. Short form, not surprising on the surface, much more surprising in the depths of Enshittification. Must-read, must-loan.

https://www.stevensavage.com/blog/2026/03/book-review-enshittification-by-cory-doctorow.html

The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.

When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.

I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

En español, se llama "mierdificación" aunque siempre he pensado que ya teniamos una palabra, "enmerdar", que viene a significar lo mismo.
Ahora metiendose hasta el fondo de la
@pluralistic

https://www.eldiario.es/tecnologia/chatgpt-clickbait-llama-mierdificacion-acaba-llegar-inteligencia-artificial_1_13058825.html

"It's very important: it needs to be nice at first."

"In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into and how to resist it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

Link to the report:
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

"Special thanks to @pluralistic , who has coined the term 'enshittification’, for sharing his early book draft, and for inspiring this report. "


HT @eikofried

I'm a little behind in my podcasts, but here's an excellent speech from @pluralistic on the opportunity Trump has given the world to break free from American tech.

Well worth a listen!

The Post-American Internet (39C3, Hamburg, Dec 28) | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/

Probably all of us have now seen the Enshittificator video by the Norwegian Consumer Counsel — .https://vimeo.com/1168468796 — possibly more than once : )

Noted that it's part of a broader campaign https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree that includes calls to action and letters being sent to governments: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-english/digital-products-and-services-are-getting-worse-but-the-trend-can-be-reversed/, and a recorded seminar (in Norwegian) including an an interview with @pluralistic (in English, forward to somewhere in the middle): https://vimeo.com/1165647336?fl=pl&fe=vl

Dear Google,

I'm a lazy consumer, but I can't stomach (dis) information from X in my Discover feed. You didn't give us a way to exclude them, so I turned it off altogether.

Waiting for you to remove the off button,

-Jack