Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

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Enshittification: it’s not just you―the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.
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 the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.
Doctorow’s argument clearly resonated. Once named, it became obvious that enshittification is everywhere, so much so that the American Dialect Society named it its 2023 Word of the Year, and was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.
Here, now, in Enshittification the book, Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and―most important―how they can be undone.

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Praise fo Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow

Publisher ‏ : ‎ MCD
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 7, 2025
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374619328
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374619329
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 1.2 x 8.55 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Social Media Guides #1 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences #1 in Social Media for Business
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