So Apple, where did the "Stop Import" on Photos go? I've imported 6,115 photos from my phone and still haven't found it.

Take your time. It's not like I'm going to stop it now. I've made it to last Christmas. #Enshitification

‘We can have a better digital world’: A global campaign targets ‘enshitification’ of social media. by Anna Desmarais — Euronews

‘We can have a better digital world’: A global campaign targets ‘enshitification’ of social media.

A platform becomes ‘enshitified’ when it introduces paid features or subscriptions that makes a user’s experience worse than it u…

#SocialMedia #Tech #Enshitification #Norway #CoryDoctorow #Platforms

Netflix Got $2.8 Billion Last Month. Now It Wants More of Yours. Last month, I closed out the Warner Bros. bidding war saga with this line: > _"Whether it's Netflix or Paramount holding the keys to Warner Bros., that part doesn't change. We're still paying $18/month for a streaming service that drops three episodes of a show and then makes us wait six months for the rest. The consolidation is happening, the prices will keep going up, and the content will keep getting spread thinner."_ > I didn't think it would take less than a month to be proven right. On Thursday, March 26, Netflix quietly updated their help page with new pricing across every single plan. No press release. No announcement. Just: here are your new prices, effective today for new subscribers, rolling out to existing members over the coming weeks. ## What You're Paying Now Here's the damage: Plan Old Price New Price Change Standard with Ads $7.99/mo $8.99/mo +$1 Standard (no ads) $17.99/mo $19.99/mo +$2 Premium (4K, 4 streams) $24.99/mo $26.99/mo +$2 Extra Member (ad-supported) $5.99/mo $6.99/mo +$1 Extra Member (ad-free) $8.99/mo $9.99/mo +$1 This is the **second price hike in just over a year.** The last one hit in January 2025. If you want Netflix without ads, the cheapest you can get it is now **$19.99 a month.** If you want 4K, you're looking at **nearly $30.** ## Netflix's Statement Is a Work of Art in Corporate Non-Language Netflix's statement to Variety: _"As we deliver more value to our members, we are updating our prices to enable us to reinvest in quality entertainment and improve their experience by updating our prices."_ They said "updating our prices" **twice** in the same sentence. That's not an accident. That's what happens when your PR team has to explain a price increase without using the word "increase." The "more value" argument is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Yes, Netflix has added video podcasts, live events, and sports content. They've also been spending $20 billion on content in 2026 alone — up from $18 billion in 2025. But nobody asked for video podcasts. And the core experience — dropping partial seasons, algorithmic recommendations that feel like they're actively avoiding what you want, the endless scroll — hasn't materially improved. ## Let's Talk About the $2.8 Billion Here's the part I can't get past. Netflix just walked away from the Warner Bros. acquisition last month and **collected a $2.8 billion termination fee** in the process. Netflix CFO Spence Neumann stood at an investor conference and said — and I want you to really hear this — _"Now we move forward, and we move forward with $2.8 billion in our pocket that we didn't have a few weeks ago."_ Cool. Great. Terrific. Now they've turned right around and raised prices on every subscriber in America. I'm not suggesting there's a direct causal link — the price hike was telegraphed in Netflix's Q4 earnings guidance in January, before the deal collapsed. But the optics of walking away from an $82.7 billion acquisition with a $2.8 billion consolation prize and then immediately coming for your customers' wallets next billing cycle... that's a specific kind of audacity. ## The Ad-Supported "Escape Hatch" Is Getting More Expensive Too This is the part that should actually annoy you. When Netflix launched its ad-supported tier, the pitch was pretty clear: if you can't stomach the price increases on the premium tiers, here's a cheaper option. Accept some ads, pay less. Fine. That tier just went from $7.99 to **$8.99.** A $1 increase on a plan that still shows you the same ads — research from Parks Associates found that seven in ten viewers say the same ads repeat too often on streaming services. You're paying more for the same annoying experience. (And if you've been following the broader war on users who just want to watch something without being monetized to death, this pattern should feel very familiar.) And the gap between ad-supported and ad-free is now **$11 a month.** If you don't want ads, that's $11 extra every single month. The "cheap" tier isn't a path down anymore — it's just a slower path to the same destination. ## You're Also Paying More for a Worse Viewing Experience The price is only part of the story. The _product_ has also gotten worse in ways that never make the press release. **The binge model is quietly dying.** Netflix built its entire identity on dropping full seasons at once. That was the deal — you pay, you watch, you don't have to wait. Now they're increasingly releasing in batches or on weekly schedules. You get half a season, then wait a month for the back half. Or you get one episode a week like it's 1987 and you have rabbit ears. They didn't announce this as a policy change. They just started doing it. **The gap between seasons is getting longer.** Stranger Things is the most egregious example — fans waited over three years between Season 4 (July 2022) and the final season (November 2025). A show that's been running since 2016, and it took nearly a decade to produce five short seasons. Now, plenty of people have figured out the workaround: cancel, wait for the drop, resubscribe, binge, cancel again. Netflix knows you're doing this. They've _always_ known. And their response hasn't been to shorten the gaps or reward loyalty — it's been to make the content calendar unpredictable enough that you're never quite sure when it's safe to cancel without missing something. The churn game is a feature, not a bug. **And if a show survives long enough to get traction, there's a decent chance it gets cancelled at Season 3.** Not because it failed — sometimes right when it's hitting its stride. Netflix has developed a well-documented pattern of greenlighting shows, letting them build an audience over two or three seasons, and then axing them right around the point where they'd have to start paying the cast and crew significantly more. The show doesn't get an ending. The audience doesn't get closure. _Santa Clarita Diet._ Three seasons. A genuinely weird, funny, beloved show — Season 3 scored 100% on Rotten Tomatoes — with a cliffhanger ending that will never be resolved. Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant spent three seasons building something people actually cared about, and Netflix pulled the plug right before the story paid off. Creator Victor Fresco found out his show was cancelled while sitting in the edit suite — an assistant producer walked in to tell him the sets were being dismantled. That's how he heard. Fresco had deliberately ended Season 3 on a cliffhanger to try to force Netflix's hand — _"We didn't want to make it easier for them to cancel us,"_ he said. It didn't matter. They booked the subscriber acquisition value from the marketing push, counted the streams, and sent someone to tear down the sets. The fans are still out there, years later, knowing they'll never find out what happened. That's not a content strategy. That's using your audience as a resource and discarding them when the math changes. ## And Then There's the Chef's Kiss That Ties the Whole Thing Together In 2017, Netflix posted a tweet that became something of a brand identity statement: _"Love is sharing a password."_ They meant it. CEO Reed Hastings said the same year that password sharing was _"a positive thing, not a negative thing."_ For years, sharing your Netflix login with a kid at college, a parent across town, or a new partner was practically a cultural ritual. Netflix knew. Netflix encouraged it. Netflix built an audience of over 100 million password-sharing households on the back of that goodwill. Then in 2023, they killed it. Suddenly sharing a password was a terms-of-service violation, and adding someone outside your household would cost you extra — on top of the subscription you were already paying. The tweet is still out there. The goodwill it was built on is not. So to recap: they got you hooked on a generous, flexible product. Raised prices. Cracked down on the sharing they told you was love. Switched from full season drops to batches and weekly episodes. Cancelled the shows you cared about before they could finish their stories. Made the content calendar unpredictable enough that you can't even strategically cancel anymore. And now they want two more dollars a month. ## The Pattern Is the Point Netflix isn't an outlier. Every major streamer has raised prices in the past two years. But Netflix's pace is worth documenting. Netflix's Standard plan history, roughly: * **2019:** ~$12.99/month * **2022:** $15.49/month * **Early 2025:** $17.99/month * **Today:** $19.99/month The mid-tier plan has gone up roughly **54% in five years.** Meanwhile, Netflix's Q4 2024 earnings set subscriber records. The company is projecting $50+ billion in revenue for 2026. They're not raising prices because they're struggling. They're raising prices because they can. ## What You Can Actually Do Honestly? Not a lot. Netflix has the content. They know they have the content. Your leverage is cancellation, and they also know that most people who cancel come back. But if you're paying for Premium and only using two screens — drop to Standard. If you haven't audited your streaming subscriptions lately, now is a good time. The average household holds nearly six streaming subscriptions; that's a lot of $2 increases adding up across a lot of services. Or don't. They've already factored your inertia into their revenue projections. That's the most honest thing I can tell you. _Existing subscribers will get email notice one month before the new prices hit their billing cycle. New subscribers see the new prices starting today._ **Got thoughts on this mess? Find me on Mastodon at****@ppb1701@ppb.social**

Netflix Got $2.8 Billion Last Month. Now It Wants More of Yours.

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#blog #netflix #streaming #streamingwars #bigtech #userhostile #enshitification

#Enshitification has hit the #MLB For years one of the most impressive things about mlb.tv is that you could pick different fees (like the National TV Broadcast, and the Tigers radio play-by-play) and it synced up 100%. We'll it's #openingDay and that doesn't work right any more.

Spotifyn etusivu on käyttöliittymänä sietämätön oksennus, jista ei ole mitään mahdollisuutta bongata kiinnostavaa musiikkia. On semi-maksullisia kirjoja, videopodcastejä, paskoja hittipop-listauksia.
#enshitification
#spotify

@madeindex @socialmedia so like LinkedIn then…

#enshitification

Cory Doctorow zum Verfall von Facebook, Google und Co. - 10 vor 10 - Play SRF Mit dem Begriff «Enshitification» beschreibt der Netzaktivist Cory Doctorow den systematischen Verfall der Qualität von digitalen Plattformen als Folge konkreter Entscheidungen – die man nicht hinnehm...

@doctorow.pluralistic.net zu #Enshitification

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An announcement from DeviantArt for AI videos.

Well, look like it's time to leave DeviantArt for good.
Sad to see what this website became… :dragn_sad:

#AI #DeviantArt #Enshitification

What is mean is, those functions were not active, even though their keyboard clearly had them. #Enshitification

That's some seriously bad dark pattern manipulation Harvest are pulling to try and force you into integrating a Stripe account. #Enshitification

When I asked for a in-cm conversion Google pointed me to ck12.org which told me that there are 63.5cm in 72in. Sure, there are 63.5cm in 72in (plus around 119 more) #ai #wrong #ck12org #enshitification #wtf #aitutor

Screenshot of the Audible logo. Amazon dominates the audio book market with it's enshitifying DRM laden app. They make it very difficult to play the content they sell outside of their proprietary apps. ( you don't actually own the content you buy. Amazon has a history of locking users out of content they have purchased long after the fact. Their app is a masterclass in enshitification, as evey update over the past decade has made the App worse. After years of my books cutting off every morning, I began my quest to see this fixed. Now three years later, with no human response to my multiple attempts to communicate with this tech behemoth, I have only the public shaming of social media to voice my discontent. I love my audio books. I hate that Amazon makes the experience of accessing them an arduous chore.

Every day my Audible app quits sometime between 6 and 7 am. This even tracks through the clock changes for DST.

This is a widely documented issue that has existed for years.

Yet bug this persists unfixed.

Every morning.

My Audible reminder of Amazon's enduring commitment to #Enshitification.

After the store for point scamish news, now polymarket like gambling?
I hope Québec gambling laws will stop this shit at least, but WealthSimple really is driving the #enshitification train hard this month!
@wealthsimple.bsky.social what happened to the neo-bank & simple investment?
Already gave up?

Ads are coming to Maps because Apple needs to keep growing To hell with your experience, one of the world's richest companies needs more Services revenue.

#Enshitification comes to Maps, a core app on #Apple. Corrupting search results and intruding on #privacy by selling ads for your location.

Because Apple doesn’t have enough of your money they’ll ruin the one thing about their map experience that made it better than Google Maps.
#FuckApple

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The enshitification of water bottle refilling.
Glasgow Queen Street: place water bottle, sensor starts the water flowing, remove water bottle,flow stops.
London Kings Cross, place water bottle, tap the touch screen about 20 times carefully avoiding the two highlighted pathways which say in small […]

Apple confirms that its Maps app will begin showing ads to users "this summer" Apple Maps ads will look and work a bit like current App Store ads do.

John confirms he'll stop using Apple Maps 'This summer'

because fuck Apple. Apple is rich. They don't need more ad revenue. Fuck Tim Apple. Steve would be so disappointed.

Fuck enshitifican.

#enshitification #apple


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All centralized social media inevitably becomes enshitified. That’s why the #Fediverse is so great (and important). :matrix_code: :fediverse:

#Enshitification #Activitypub

EP 738, the Dark Side with @cyberwire @bittner: #GravityFalls returns with an art book, #Muppet marathons & lack of touchstones - ala #EvenKnievel #RipTaylor - and #TheLastQuietThing has us angry at #enshitification #technology and #consumerism gog.show/738 #podcast

The Washington Post enters its Amazon era. Data and efficiency are destined to shape the paper’s future. Whatever that means.

Enshitification at the Washington Post.

The Washington Post Enters Its Amazon Era.
Data and efficiency are destined to shape the paper’s future. Whatever that means.

#journalism | #amazon | #WaPo | #enshitification .

#Enshitification

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines Let us know if you see more.

Trusted search engine replaces headlines with vibes
#enshitification of the most basis core feature

www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

A whimsical drawing of a frog using a ouija board with the text “fuck ChatGPT. I’m asking ghosts”

#AI #enshitification #aislop #ghosts #occult #witchsky

Search For Instructions:

A website that isn’t Reddit, yet contains instructions for various things you want to do, replacing how shit Google has become. Recognizing that most people don’t want to watch a freaking video, everything is in text list format.

#InternetFantasies #Enshitification

#Enshitification

💯 agree. I’d say use the AI tech while it is free/cheap. #Enshitification of AI Tech is going to happen soon.

Sign the Petition Stop Google from limiting APK file usage

Google's going insane. I use @grapheneos.org on my Pixel because I'm tired of providing data to a company who's done their best to erase from history the fact that 2 decades ago their motto was "don't be evil". Don't let them go too far down #enshitification boulevard.

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And so the path to #enshitification continues.

I wonder if any Delta flight has ever been on time. Tardy af.

#deltA
#deltaairlines
#enshitification

It's astonishing how quickly successful products reach #enshitification.

@bitwarden.bsky.social has gotten there in record time. Forget clearing app search on folder change, not exiting the app on Cmd-Q or Cmd-L jumping directly to the search bar.

It's now blue folders. Blue or nothing.