{"id":93363,"date":"2026-06-27T07:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=93363"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:17:25","slug":"enshittification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/27\/enshittification\/","title":{"rendered":"Enshittification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video on enshittification\u00a0from The Norwegian Council is brilliant:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T4Upf_B9RLQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The term enshittification was created by Cory Doctorow to describe the process where online services and products deliberately decline in quality over time, and usually cost more. It is an idea totally embraced by AI.<\/p>\n<p>This is extractive capitalism at work. We all pay the price.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Hat tip: Anne S.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video on enshittification\u00a0from The Norwegian Council is brilliant: The term enshittification was created by Cory Doctorow to describe the process where online services and<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/06\/27\/enshittification\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-neoliberalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93365,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93363\/revisions\/93365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}