Read this essay is like those glasses in “THEY LIVE”: you’ll start seeing the pattern he describes in almost every website and a dismaying amount of desktop software. And there won’t be any going back.
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good article 
few games interrupt so often with stupid how to play for every simple step that i uninstall it.
Ahem. Looking at you, Photoshop.
You can add Microsoft Outlook, Word, CoPilot and Windows 11 to that, Perry.
Copilot in Word is really pissing me off - much worse than the dreadful Clippy.
Most of the aspects of “enshittification” remind me of women of a certain bodyshape in tight dresses constantly asking “does my a##e look big in this ?” to which the answer is bleeding obvious, yet no-one dares reply honestly, as any answer is politically incorrect, or career suicide, if you’re in the team building it.
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Since getting off windows and onto Linux I have been more productive and I attribute it to lack of interruptions. The older I get the harder ‘focus’ becomes. The constant pop ups and ‘tutorial’ just breaks my brain. The tutorials should be just on a help button.
My muscle memory is broken too, just switching between a mac and a pc and the windows/apple is annoying as pins 2 & 3 on RS232. Everything changes every 5 minutes and you are constantly searching for tools that have moved for no reason.. it’s maddening.
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Yes, good article. When I’m working it’s aggravating to have your train of thought constantly interrupted. My pet peeve are website that have something you want, product or info, and before you can orient yourself on the opening page an add pops up or some such thing. Close it, start to read the page or look for the link you need, and there comes another popup for this or that. It’s like they don’t really care about THEIR content, they just want the revenue from ad clicks. If I get more than two popups, they lose my attention and business.
Interesting article. I totally agree with the constant interruptions. While it is nice to have updates available on-line for download ridiculous number of changes, interruptions, etc. is annoying to say the least.
When I create software I don’t do any of that crap and typically don’t require an internet connection for it to run other than a link to a website or option to send an email.