Its a refreshing experience in a world where products and services will push the legal boundaries in order to:
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Hide or mask spyware and bloatware
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Make unauthorized system settings changes.
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Only offer access to certain features or setting if you downlad their app.
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Changing everything from opt in as default to opt out being the new default.
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And the cherry on top is the same companies will also burry the means to contact support while face fucking their useless shit for brains AI bot at every selection you choose.
*lookin at you Google, Microsoft, paypal, amazon, Samsung
Snapchat was just the most recent app I used that triggered this realization but there are literally dozens (*insert Arrested Development’s ‘never nude’ meme) of other products and services that are in the same boat of initially being perceived as annoying but now are viewed in a more appreciated light.
Bonus anecdotal LPT: The simplest way I found to describe the enshitiffication movement to Gen X’ers and Boomers is by explaining to them that its when a company actively engages in implementing changes that lower the quality of the product or service you pay for with the intent of providing a solution option that will either cost more money or force the user to grant the product or service permissions that will, for example, allow them to mine your data and sell it for profit.
All my Gen X homies knew what enshittification was before it had a fun name.
I live in Ruralasfuck, USA. Most of my peer mellenials think the word “firmware” is some made up Harry Potter nerd shit. Thats coming from my generation who grew up with technology. You start going up the generation ladder from there and it doesn’t get any better. The older generations will maintain a similar void of understanding but its delivered with more homophobic or racist sentence enhancers than I normally get from my mellenial peers. Usually will sound something like, “What the fuck is firmware? More made up shit you learned from those Harry Potter f*gs you used to jerk off to?”