Since beginning of 2025 big corps turned to be each time more anti consumer. They feel quite comfortable. I wonder what happened for them to feel like that.

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bigC5560 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Sounds to me like you just became aware of it in 2025. This has been happening for forever. Keeping with the electronics example, the Phoebus cartel was lowering the lifespan of lightbulbs in the 1920s. The US government seemed to be stricter on it at that time (I mean in the 1920s), but billions of dollars in lobbying will change that over time.

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mr_toad 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Pretty sure that phone companies have been anti-customer ever since the invention of the telephone.

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diego_moita 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Since beginning of 2025

I suggest you to study the birth of consumer protection laws on the beginning of the 20th century, such as the birth of the FTC in 1914. It was a time when milk and beer were routinely adulterated, most meat was contaminated and all sorts of cartels did price fixing [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission_Act_o...

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replygirl 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

just since 2025?

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nxm an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Any actual evidence to backup this claim?

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kmbfjr 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

Are you serious?

Only in the last week we have Sony deleting paid-for movies. That is pretty anti-consumer.

I realize all of this is empirical, but the term enshitification just didn’t form out of thin air.

	▲	cj 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		He's probably looking for evidence of "Since beginning of 2025". (I'm curious too) Feels like we've been on the same train for over a decade.