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Internet activist Cory Doctorow talks about “Enshittification,” how tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google have made the internet worse for everybody by locking in users only to turn on them
Once almost everyone was using the internet, it became possible for businesses in a variety of areas to build up customer bases sustained by strong network effects. And one after another, these businesses have gone through the enshittification cycle.
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