Why the Internet Gets Worse Every Year

Millions of users are experiencing increasing frustration as platforms they once loved turn dysfunctional. Author and critic Cory Doctorow introduced the term 'enshittification' to describe this phenomenon.

Doctorow explains how platforms start positively, gradually become mediocre, and eventually evolve into hostile, manipulative, and useless entities. Users remain attached to them, not because of their quality, but because leaving is more complicated than staying.

Major players like Google, Amazon, and Facebook are characteristic examples of how 'enshittification' functions as a business model and as a cultural phenomenon.