Rather than enshittification, what Meta did to Instagram could be considered "a consumer-welfare bonanza," Meta argued, while ...

Two years ago, a Canadian writer named Cory Doctorow coined the phrase "enshittification" to describe the decay of online platforms. The word immediately set the Internet ablaze, as it captured ...

The Macquarie Dictionary, the national dictionary of Australia, has picked “enshittification” as its word of the year. The Australians define the word as “the gradual deterioration of a ...

In a 2023 essay for Wired, Doctorow laid out the basic arc of enshittification, or the process by which platforms die. “First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make ...

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Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. The award-winning author and naturalist ...

This is what the author Cory Doctorow has dubbed enshittification. Online products and services get worse over time as the companies behind them are forced to extract more and more value no matter ...

Meet your new favorite term to describe why your favorite things keep getting worse: enshittification. It turns out that “enshittification” resonates with so many people that Australia has ...

More and more, it feels like the internet has gone bad. There’s an increasingly popular theory about why: “enshittification.” The term, coined in 2022 by the author, journalist and activist ...