Lyft CEO David Risher brought a colorful colloquialism to his second annual letter to shareholders: enshittification. "It describes the ongoing degradation of a once-great product or experience, often ...

That rage you feel as you deal with every single piece of tech in your life? It’s caused by enshittification and the dictionaries are taking notice. Reading time 4 minutes The biggest word of 2024 is ...

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. Sign up here! A few years ago, Cory Doctorow coined a word that took the internet by storm. It appeared everywhere, including in our newsletter that ...

We are all fluent in the language of the internet now, which is to say we can read a consent screen at 20 paces. The sentence always opens the same way. We care about your privacy. Then comes the ...

IF THE INTERNET feels worse than ever recently, the good news is that there are many people who agree with you. The bad news is that your brain might be suffering as a result. The slow erosion, or ...

Attorney General of Australia Michelle Rowland rejected proposals by the country’s own think-tank that wanted to give tech companies rights to mine copyrighted content for training Generative AI. The ...

Cory Doctorow is correct about how algorithms end up ruining good services. However, I experience little to no enshittification, probably because I don’t do so-called social media, and I pay to use ...

A few years ago, Cory Doctorow coined a word that took the internet by storm. It appeared everywhere, including in our newsletter that analyzed why dating apps are breaking the hearts of their users.