"Remember when the internet was young and alive, vibrant and accessible and free? Cory Doctorow does, and he knows what’s gone wrong―and he sees a way forward. This is a magnificent book."
—James Gleick, author of Chaos and The Information
"Cory Doctorow is a genuine tech hero. He has encapsulated here much of what’s going wrong with the internet, and he suggests how the spirit of the original internet might be brought back. This is a great book for those of us hoping to make things better for everyone.”"
—Craig Newmark, founder of Craiglist
"Punchy, pungent, and utterly compelling. Enshittification will change the way you see the world, and just might change the world itself. You simply must read it.”
—Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist
"Big Tech does not just plunder your data. It does not merely rob you of your privacy. It does something far, far worse. You know it. You feel it. But you won’t be able to put your finger on it until you have read Enshittification. Then you will know and, more important, you will stand a better chance of resisting.”
—Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism
“Cory Doctorow brilliantly diagnoses how our digital commons became a wasteland of extraction and surveillance. But his greatest contribution is showing us the escape routes, reminding us that the internet’s promise isn’t lost, its merely captured. We built it once; we can build it again, better.”
—Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador and first digital minister
"“With his hallmark clarity and energy, Cory Doctorow lays out how tech monopolies innovated ways to disregard, abuse, and suck dry their users. We must heed Doctorow’s no-bullshit account of how to fight back.”
—Jathan Sadowski, author of The Mechanic and the Luddite
"Enshittification explains the exploitation that changed the internet and our lives. Doctorow gave us the word to describe how these companies immiserate humanity on a planetary scale."
—Edward Snowden
“I always love Cory’s shit, but Enshittification is not only a smart, funny, and refreshingly furious screed on how tech has betrayed us all—but also a bracing, daringly optimistic plan for how we can free ourselves from awfulness.”
—John Hodgman
"Cory Doctorow spells out why our experience online keeps getting worse — and what we can do to turn this around. Enshittification is an essential read to understand today's digital economy."
—Rohit Chopra, Former Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
"The steady decline of the technology you use every day isn't just in your imagination—and in Enshittification, Cory Doctorow explains how we got here. Witty, incisive, and urgently relevant, this book reveals how we can reclaim our digital lives from the forces that have degraded them."
—Molly White, editor of Web3 Is Going Just Great and Citation Needed