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Alexander Fortin's Tech Blog
Alexander Fortin's Tech BlogOct 9, 2026
Stop complaining about enshittification. Use the alternatives
In the last past 10 years or so I've gradually tried to distance myself from various form or "enshittification", I talk here about some of the alternatives I have chosen and why I think they serve me better than the most popular ones.
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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 7, 2026
Paramount, Warner Bros Formally Merge, Form Giant Mountain Of Disastrous Debt
Larry Ellison has succeeded in fusing Paramount and Warner Brothers in a $110 billion merger that will culminate in mass layoffs, higher prices, lower-quality product, and news outlets like CNN becoming even more friendly to corporate power and the U.S. right wing. This enshittification will arrive despite endless promises by the Ellisons that none of...
consolidationdavid ellison
Nathan Nelson
Nathan NelsonOct 2, 2026
Master’s, academic publishers, beer, adverts
I submitted my dissertation a day early. No late nights before the deadline, no last-minute rush, no panic. I used to pride myself on quoting Douglas Adams, with his deadlines making a whooshing sound as they fly by, but in the end I was relaxed and ahead of time. So uncool. My past self doesn't...
advertisingagroecology
Techdirt
TechdirtSep 25, 2026
The Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 12, 2026
Microsoft Slaps Hours Limits On Xbox Game Pass Cloud Gaming
There's enshittification, and then there's enshittification. Allow me to give you an example of each. For what we'll call enshittification classic, there's Xbox's Game Pass service. A mere two years ago, Microsoft made all kinds of changes to Game Pass to coincide with a serious slowdown of subscriber adoption. Those changes included doing away with...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 1, 2026
X Kills Nitter And Xcancel, The Last Ways To Read Tweets Without Elon Watching
When Twitter launched, it was originally designed to be just like an open protocol. In the early days, the company eagerly supported third party development, building on that protocol. But, because it was a new communications protocol totally controlled by a single company, eventually commercial pressure led the company to close off the openness. Jack...
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riz#000000meJul 15, 2026
On Calling It Capitalism
The buried intermediary in the totality of capitalistic society.
capitalismenshittification
I'm Not Doctor Who
I'm Not Doctor WhoJul 4, 2026
#oneaday Day 757: Nothing works any more
One of the most common refrains of people who discuss the topic of enshittification is that so much stuff related to tech just flat-out doesn't work any more, and no-one seems in any great hurry to fix it -- particularly when all the actually knowledgeable engineers have been replaced with "vibe-coding" cunts. Photo by Beyzanur...
enshittificationnextdoor
Emelia’s Ramblings
Emelia’s RamblingsMar 30, 2026
On being valued
What does it mean to be valued, have I found the right room?
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theoswelt.org
theoswelt.orgMar 6, 2026
Die Gentrifizierung und Enshittification des Internets
Interessant, der NPR-Code-Switch-Podcast und die Idee, die Gentrifizierungs-Theorie auf das Internet anzuwenden... jedenfalls auf einige Bereiche (Stadteile 😉)... CODE SWITCH - How the internet got gentrified (npr.com) [Die Autorin spricht dabei auch über ihr Buch (2021): The Gentrification of the Internet How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom (ucpress.edu).] Und zur Gentrifikation passt dann auch sehr...
digital cultureenshittification
Cory Dransfeldt
Cory DransfeldtOct 26, 2025
Enshittification
Explaining the process of the “enshittification” of digital platforms over time and what to do about it. Cory Doctorow's Enshittification takes a witty yet incisive look at the tech landscape, where platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and Google start off great—before they inevitably turn terrible. In this contemporary moment of digital decline, Doctorow explores how tech giants lure users in with convenience and then degrade their services over time, squeezing profit at the cost of user experience. With a mix of sharp humor and deep insight, he unveils the slow creep of "enshittification," turning the online world into a worse place, one algorithm at a time.
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Cory Dransfeldt
Cory DransfeldtOct 22, 2025
AI browsers are straight out of the enshittification playbook
Enshittification isn't cliché, it's simply pervasive. Browsers being launched by AI companies will, undoubtedly, follow the same playbook we've seen over and over again.
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edafe.de
edafe.deAug 1, 2025
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
"In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder." Molly White has been using RSS for over a decade and would like you to join her...
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edafe.de
edafe.deJul 31, 2025
Delta’s AI-based price-gouging
"It's a scam. AI agents aren't going to replace human labor. The only way we'll replace human labor with software agents is by redesigning all these heterogeneous, competing systems owned by people who benefit from the status quo and have every motivation to obstruct this project. Good luck with that." Cory Doctorow reviews the ways...
artificialintelligenceautomation
edafe.de
edafe.deJul 27, 2025
When we get komooted
"Digital enclosure is the continuation of the physical enclosure of land. This sophisticated form of digital extraction is so common that it’s almost unremarkable. But there’s a wrenching contradiction here between Komoot’s stated mission of 'enabling access' to public land while privatizing and exclusively profiting from those very movements. They take our most meaningful encounters...
businesscapitalism
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 16, 2024
Everything Becomes Growth Hacking
If your platform is being exploited by growth hackers, you need to moderate it, or you threaten its long-term health, reputation, and survival. It’s not easy—because growth hacking always finds a way.
growth hackingenshittification
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMar 28, 2024
The Value Of A Promise
When you hear a company like Substack or Canva make a promise, you may get pretty cynical that they’re going to keep it. Honestly, I get that.
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