Enshittification

Cory Doctorow examines how major internet platforms change after they gain users, shifting value away from those users and toward advertisers, business customers, and shareholders. The book presents this pattern as a structural explanation for why online services become less useful, less trustworthy, and harder to use over time.

It offers a clear account of the forces behind that decline and argues that the trend is not accidental. The focus is on how these systems degrade and the broader implications of that process for the internet.