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Cory Doctorow's "Enshittification" audiobook routes around the very problem it critiques

Cory Doctorow's "Enshittification" audiobook routes around the very problem it critiques

Mark Frauenfelder
Aug 25, 2025
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Enshittification, By Cory Doctorow

Remember when Google started as a helpful librarian then became a pushy salesperson? This scenario— enshittification—is an example of how "all the internet platforms we rely on were turning into piles of shit," says Cory Doctorow, who coined the term.

And now Cory, a friend and one of the first editors of Boing Boing, ha…

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