It’s not your job to fix the internet
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Cory Doctorow discusses enshittification, where big platforms like Google and Amazon prioritize extracting value over user benefit. He argues this wasn't always the case and offers solutions in his new book.
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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. Doctorow's new book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, is filled with explanations about how large, successful, once u …