The concept of enshittification, as coined by the author and activist Cory Doctorow, just feels right. Whether you’re searching on Google, shopping on Amazon, or scrolling on Facebook, large platforms often feel like they’re not trying to bring us value so much as extract every bit of value they can out of us. It wasn’t always like this, was it? Can we get it back?
On this episode of The Vergecast, Doctorow has an answer: no, it wasn’t always like this, and yes, we can get it back….
