Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
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In *Enshittification*, Cory Doctorow diagnoses a phenomenon that feels all too familiar: the steady, inexplicable decline of the digital platforms we depend on daily. With characteristic clarity and energy, Doctorow traces how tech monopolies systematically dismantled the internet's early architecture of openness and interoperability—once the digital immune system that protected users and enabled competition—to create chokepoints of control and exploitation. The book explores the social, governmental, and financial guardrails that once prevented companies from degrading their products for profit, and how their removal has left users vulnerable to abuse. Through compelling examples and incisive analysis, Doctorow reveals that the decay you've noticed isn't imaginary—it's the result of deliberate corporate strategies designed to extract maximum value from users. *Enshittification* is both a reckoning with how we got here and a call to action for reclaiming the internet we deserve.
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ebook
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published Jan 1, 2025
352 pages
ISBN: 9780374619336
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First Published
2025
Language
eng
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