The Enshittification Thread
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If I have to x out of an ad to use the touchscreen, I will lose my mind.
... You don't already have those? Huh.
Idk if this has been posted here but I read this article a month or so ago and is kind of the perfect encapsulation of enshittification.
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Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
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I feel the same way every time I'm greeted with a, "Rate your experience" email/text/dialog. Ostensibly it's presented as a way to solicit feedback, a way for Mr. & Mrs. Customer to train a faceless company in how they want to be treated, but what it really ends up being is that company crowdsourcing unpaid (and unreliable!) volunteers to decide which employees are underperforming and therefore need to be investigated and put on some kind of "improvement plan" because they have a number lower than that of their peers.
Disclosure: I write the above as someone who is constantly subject to being rated for performance, and who consistently scores highly in ratings (without cheating!), and I still think it's a stupid, flawed method that is too open to being "gamed." And for evidence of this, I need only point to the not insignificant number of people who got themselves fired solely for doing just that.
--Patrick
Disclosure: I write the above as someone who is constantly subject to being rated for performance, and who consistently scores highly in ratings (without cheating!), and I still think it's a stupid, flawed method that is too open to being "gamed." And for evidence of this, I need only point to the not insignificant number of people who got themselves fired solely for doing just that.
--Patrick