Enshit
Most things turn to shit over time.
We track how companies and services are doing in the enshitification process. Enshittification is the pattern where products get worse for the people using them—often after a good start—as incentives tilt toward business growth.
Good value first—they need you in the door.
Latest
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Bing
3 Cashing inMicrosoft’s search layer—often a conduit into Copilot, Edge defaults, and Windows integration rather than neutral retrieval.
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Brave
2 Hard to leaveChromium fork pushing privacy and optional rewards—fewer trackers by default, but still a product with its own wallet, ads narrative, and ecosystem bets.
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Google Chrome
3 Cashing inDominant Chromium default—fast and compatible, tightly coupled to Google accounts, sync, and the ads ecosystem that funds the web’s biggest funnel.
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Discord
2 Hard to leaveStrong real-time product for communities, but your social graph and server history are deeply embedded—switching means rebuilding social capital elsewhere.
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DoorDash
3 Cashing inFood delivery marketplace with fees stacked on restaurants and riders; convenience for diners, thin margins and policy fights everywhere else.
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DuckDuckGo
1 Plenty for usersPrivacy-marketed search with lighter tracking; still a business that must fund results and experiments over time.
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Epic Games Store
3 Cashing inPC storefront and launcher competing on cuts and exclusives—better for devs in spots, still a platform tax and account wall for players.
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Eventbrite
3 Cashing inSelf-serve events and ticketing—easy for organizers until fees, feature tiers, and payout rules become the product.
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Figma
2 Hard to leaveCollaborative design in the browser; files, libraries, and plugins embed teams so deeply that leaving feels like a migration project.
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Firefox
1 Plenty for usersOpen-source browser with privacy-forward defaults and no ad-tech parent; Mozilla’s funding model is fragile but the user-facing product still skews toward surplus over extraction.
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IMDb
3 Cashing inCanonical film/TV metadata within Amazon—indispensable lookups with ads, Prime nudges, and data leverage across commerce and streaming.
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LinkedIn
3 Cashing inThe default résumé graph for many industries, increasingly monetized via feed ads, recruiter tools, and upsells—users are the inventory.