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Products are getting worse on purpose

Rob Beschizza
Jul 22, 2026
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Worse on Purpose is a website about the decline in product quality and the forces driving it, ranging from mundane cost-cutting to enshittification. Private equity is a regular theme, but corporations of every kind are at it, and the site offers “autopsies” of notable offenders and categories. One of the latest items is why Your Cookw…

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