{"id":71725,"date":"2025-11-03T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=71725"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:26:50","slug":"enshittification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/enshittification\/","title":{"rendered":"Enshittification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Enshittification Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The now-viral term \u2018enshittification\u2019 helped put a name to a change that internet users are noticing: the feeling that many of your digital experiences, transactions, and services are not improving with time but are actually becoming worse because of their makers\u2019 updates.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Enshittification<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an<\/span><b> informal word used to criticize the degradation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>quality and experience of online platforms over time<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, often due to <\/span><b>profit-seeking behavior or monopolistic control.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2022, the <\/span><b>Canada-born author, tech journali<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">st, and activist <\/span><b>Cory Doctorow coined the term<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201censhittification.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a way of naming the process through which <\/span><b>internet platforms are being made deliberately worse for customers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by their decision-makers, <\/span><b>until they decay completely.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also used to<\/span><b> refer to a range of symptoms that degrade your experience as an internet user<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or customer.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some examples include the <\/span><b>insertion of advertisements, self-preferencing by tech companies, unfair bias in search results,<\/b> <b>once-free features becoming paid, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">genuine products being replaced with lower-value dupes, and more.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/154635\/OPS\/GBHF42OOT.1+G1RF44FBV.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enshittification is a way of naming the process through which internet platforms are being made deliberately worse for customers, by their decision-makers, until they decay completely. 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