Enshittification

Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

352 pages

English language

Published Oct. 7, 2025

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978-0-374-61932-9
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Enshittification: it’s not just you―the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify.

We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.

Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.

When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).

The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users―and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then …

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Innsiktsfullt og gjennomtenkt, men et argument vi kjenner igjen.

For oss som har fulgt Doctorows blogg og hørt en og annen forelesning eller intervju de siste årene er det ikke mye i denne boken som er nytt. Det er slik han jobber. Han er veldig produktiv og det er tydelig at skriveprosessen er en måte å tenke på. Det leder til at han ofte gjentar seg selv, på godt og ondt. Leser man noen få tekster får man fort med seg de viktige poengene og man kan lett velge en måte å motta det på som funker bra for en selv.

Når jeg først oppdaget Doctorow i tiden før Little Brother kom ut (jeg tror det første jeg leste av ham var Eastern Standard Tribe) konsumerte jeg alt jeg kom over. Det var ofte både engasjerende og insiktsfullt, men det var lett å bli litt lei. Det han skriver er fortsatt innsiktsfullt i dag, men jeg har aktivt …

intressant men seg

Det här är en bok huvusakligen skriven för en amerikansk publik, och då menar jag USA. Är man intresserad av amerikansk arbetmiljö, fack- och inrikes politik så är det här guld. Visst, Cory tar upp saker som berör oss allla han går ganska snabbt igenom EU, UK- och världspolitik med men tyvärr blandar han dessa delar i delarna med USA-politiken så det går inte att hoppa över delar.

Boken är bra och intressant, om hur storföretagen gör allt för att tjäna mer pengar åt dem som styr medans kuder och arbetare får det allt värre.

Första tredjedelen är bra, intressant och stundtals rolig. Andra tredjedelen är tung och seg och går igenom mycket amerikansk politik, arbetsrätt, arbetsförhållanden och fackkultur. Saker som är helt anorlunda och funkar på ett helt annat sätt hör i Sverige och EU. Vilket gör boken seg och trögläst, i alla fall för en som …

An easy clear walk through a policy forest

If you remember the good internet and see this POS we use today, you can use this guide to what happened and how to change it.

The stories are clear and easy to understand, precise and full of the right heat about what was stolen and how, what can change and how.

This is the book to give to normies about what’s been done to them.

Enshittification - Capitalist scum are siphoning off our surplus value and shitting on our heads

There are plenty of reviews of this book so go read one of those instead.

This book helps to explain why almost everything on the internet---and, more generally, our capitalist world---is getting worse. There are things that can be done about it but I'm not sure that there is the political will in the world to make it happen.

The Definitive Look at Rotten Tech

Enshittification has become an easy way to describe how tech goes bad, but Doctorow has done the work of backing up that wonderful new word he added to our lexicon with a framework and survey of tech's history to flesh it out. He provides a path forward to reverse Enshittification and his focus on coalition building is a key part of that. This book is for both veterans in the fight against Enshittification and those just now recognizing how bad things have gotten.

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