Enshittification only hurts product itself.

This implies Windows isn’t already enshittified, which is very much not the case.

everyone say goodbye to the wonderful decadess of lean, efficient, bloat-free Windows we have known and loved up until Windows 11!

it's been smooth sailing until windows 11!

Windows has been shit waaaaaaaaay longer than any of those. MS always "fixes" it afterwards just enough to become usable

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.

When did Minecraft get Enshittified?

NEFTLIX

I'm going to pretend using an enshitified version of this meme template was an intentional choice

You missed YouTube

Netflix happened before Reddit. Also, one could add Facebook and Amazon

Lol, this is hilarious. Thanks, Lemmy. It makes me feel better to know I'm not this far echo chambered. Good luck.

Wait, what happened to Minecraft? You're just talking about the Bedrock edition, right?

...right?

I just bought a brand new thumb drive so I can install Linux.

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

What? Windows has sucked for like 20 years. Google turned to shit when they got rid of “don’t be evil”

When did this happen to Neftlix?

Windoze must die! Long live DOS!

~ War cry of the ancient geek

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.

Shocked this thread is an hour old with no mention of Linux. Whoopsie.

TBH move reddit to the front of Netflix and Chrome and Windows behind Minecraft then its good.

LJ, digg, del.ico.us, Plants vs Zombies...

He'll never take Windows. Never!

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)

Windows should be first, Reddit second, Minecraft third, chrome fourth.