Seventy-five fucking US dollars per month? To hear about how the ruination of apps is good, actually? I can remember when yearly subscriptions to magazines were like $12, fuck's sake.

Is it bad?

$75 per month?

Yeah, it's pretty fuckin' bad.

This feels like the economic equivalent of climate change deniers promoting forest fires as, exclusively and inherently, a good thing because they 'make all that new growth' after

If your cherry pie has even a little bit poop in it, it’s a poop cake. Not hard to grasp.

I thought it was a meme edit...

75$ per month?

It's in the name.... "enshittification"...

Put this shit into dunk_tank...

Edit: to the article writer, not the poster...

$75 for a Financial Times subscription?! Why spend that much when for just $10 a month, I'll hold you down, put a funnel in your ear, and squeeze pudding directly into your skull

Not paying 75 a month for a one word article that says, "Yes."

Who's to say?

Apparently shareholders in those apps' publishers who own media orgs! Thanks FT

This is a fair price. If the article can tell you if spending $75 a month on this is bad, reading it could save you as much as $75 a month!

Beyond parody.

I mean... They're not wrong. Enshittification of apps (and every other aspect of daily life) is in fact positive to the people a publication like the Financial Times is written for. It sucks ass for the rest of us but for them it means exciting new revenue flows.

That's the good thing about the business press, they are much more honest when they're training to themselves then when they are talking to the proles.

Wow, I clicked the 2nd link to take psychic damage and I never got the paywall message. I guess that BPC (bypass paywall) addon for firefox actually worked for once.

But think of all the money that could be made!

Market forces cannot solve every problem, but they can do a lot. And they work much better if users are free to come and to go. Everything in a market economy has the potential to be enshittified: the taxi company can be late every time; your local bistro can serve you microwaved ready meals; the coffee shop can double its prices. They don’t, because they know you’ll leave and never come back. There’s a lesson in that for the platforms — and those who regulate them.

Hot take but the people who use the term "Enshittification" are annoying as fuck. It's the equivalent of saying: "I trusted proprietary software and now it bit me in the ass, I'm going to throw a temper tantrum." Wow, who knew that in a capitalist society that capitalists would choose profit over well-being and the inherent power struggle of nonfree software is the vehicle of abuse. Stop whining about your favorite silicon valley slop not being kind to you, they don't give a shit. The guy who invented the term isn't even a marxist, he's some Canadian white guy who writes sci-fi.

Either read Free Software, Free Society and apply it to your own life (maybe even liberate your computing right now!) or accept that no one cares if you cry enshittification.

Enshittifcation more like

Hot take over.

$75/mo for this garbage?????? That's how much they're paying?