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A tumblr post saying "i really like this thing where websites will have separate “log in” & “sign up” buttons and if you click “log in” it takes you to a sign-up screen anyway so you have to click “i already have an account” and then it will ask if you want to sign in with your facebook account or with instagram or linkedin or deviantart or whatever, and if you choose “username & password” it asks if you want to put in your username or use your thumbprint, and once you put your username & password it emails you a confirmation code, and once you put in the code it says “do you want to give us your phone number for future sign-ins? do you want to sign up for facial recognition? do you want to give us your bones? give us your fucking bones?”

    • Mniot@programming.dev
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      7 days ago

      It’s shitty, but it’s not “enshittification”.

      Doctorow’s explanation goes

      Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification

      What the OP describes is just obnoxious design. To be enshittification it should be a change from better UX to worse and the change should be an attempt by the site to grab some extra cash.

      Twitter requiring an account to see replies to a tweet is an example–they’re trying to juice their user-count.