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DaiPlusPlusyesterday at 1:52 AM1 replyview on HN

Enshittification specifically is when a product/service/platform gets worse from the user’s perspective because the platform vendor can directly profit from user-hostile design; for example, Google intentionally serves up bad results on the first search results page so the user clicks-through to the second page of results, resulting in more advert revenue to Google[1].

…whereas I feel what you’re describing is another Tragedy-of-the-Commons.

[1]: https://jackyan.com/blog/2023/09/google-search-is-worse-by-d...


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red-iron-pineyesterday at 3:25 PM

enshittification is a hip, tech-bro term to mean "rent seeking" and is nothing new