Cory Doctorow is coming out with a book on enshittification in the fall: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.
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Doctorow made a CBC podcast on this very topic: Who Broke The Internet -- Season 5 of Understood. I suspect the book is an expansion of the podcast material.
I listened to the first 10 minutes of the first episode and it was so on point that I had to halt it. My spouse will want to listen to this with me on our next road trip.
I think I allude to Doctorow's enshittification-of-the-internet theory about once a week these days. So depressingly true of so much.
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