Products are getting worse on purpose

A website called Worse on Purpose is documenting an increasingly familiar frustration: products getting worse on purpose. Per Boing Boing, the site catalogs everything from cost-cutting to 'enshittification'—the practice of degrading products for profit—and traces patterns across industries, from private equity buyouts to everyday manufacturers. It publishes detailed autopsies of companies and product categories, turning what many consumers have experienced into searchable documentation of how and why products decline.

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