Winbloats was arguably the first one of this list to get enshitiffied. I remember being a 12 yo trying to find an alternative to winbugs because the microsoft account login was required. It's got worse since then
Oh enshittification is coming for Windows. In the future. Like it hasn't happened yet or wasn't the first and worst of these companies for it to come for. But something that hasn't happened yet, not in the past. Interesting.
For those wondering about what specifically happened with each:
Minecraft - microtransactions on Bedrock edition
Reddit - API changes killing 3rd party apps and streamlining ad delivery
Netflix - Pricing and library changes making it less and less of a good deal
Chrome - Manifest V3 killing uBlock Origin and similar content blockers
Windows - Increasing numbers of ads baked into the system, poorly-made features like Recall, and lack of hardware compatibility with the TPM 2.0 requirement
This would be true if it wasn't for the blood trails. All these companies are thriving despite the enshitification; perhaps they're thriving because of it.
I kinda feel like people don't really care, I mean the ones who care are here and they left these products behind, but we're really a small fraction that barely counts, most just use these stuff, they just don't overthink it.
I mean there are levels and challenges and adds of up to 30 seconds on solitaire, a game that's idea is to play casually in between. And minesweeper isn't pre installed anymore, you have to download it in the shop and I can't do that on my work laptop (and I obviously don't use windows privately)
minecraft is shit now? I last played around 1.15-1.16 and I had a lot of fun. I don’t really follow it but I haven’t heard of any recent dissatisfaction. What have I missed?