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scipan

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3. Google enshittification.

Reply to Baron2024 (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 11, 2025, 01:43 AM

Mar 2025

Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

He nailed it and changed my worldview.

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So Doctorow has some words about egg prices [View all] intrepidity Mar 2025 OP

So A Question Baron2024 Mar 2025 #1

Google enshittification. scipan Mar 2025 #3

That Is Funny Baron2024 Mar 2025 #4

So stop buying them. flvegan Mar 2025 #2

"Shut up about egg prices!" LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #5

They also control what sizes MagickMuffin Mar 2025 #6

Nothing is a substitute for the protein & nutrition that you get in an egg. elocs Mar 2025 #7

Well in all fairness, the substitutions are mostly for baking MagickMuffin Mar 2025 #8

Alas, chickens are not allowed where I live but it would be a different story if elocs Mar 2025 #9

Apparently everyone can raise chickens for eggs per the FDA MagickMuffin Mar 2025 #10