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“Enshitification” refers to pivoting from selling a product to selling the audience that bought the product. For instance, Windows putting ads in the start menu
by brookst 1y ago
“Enshitification” refers to pivoting from selling a product to selling the audience that bought the product. For instance, Windows putting ads in the start menu.
As awful as this Sig Sauer fiasco is, it doesn’t seem to be a result of a pivot to indirect monetization.
- dreamcompiler 1y agoThis is not what enshittification means. Facebook enshittified itself without ever having sold a product to its users. They were selling their users' personal data before they ever became enshittified. Enshittification is about obtaining, then abusing platform semi-monopoly power to extract more money from your users and your customers by making your product worse.
- game_the0ry 1y ago> Enshittification is about obtaining, then abusing platform semi-monopoly power to extract more money from your users and your customers by making your product worse. Yeah, this is how I meant it. In the case of Sig, it was probably cost-cutting, product management by committee, corner-cutting due to tight business reqs, or some combo of the above.