Not enshittified. We still pay a monthly fee for access to the internet and it still operates in the same way as it did back in the 90s.

There was auto-playing music, auto-playing gifs, auto-playing banners all over the place, and it was always for time-wasting. It’s literally not changed. Maybe its inhabitants have changed, but it’s largely exactly the same as it was.

The days of randomly happening on goatse from clicking some link in a chat room are basically gone, and places are far more moderated than they ever have been. Open source software exists for anything and everything you could possibly do, and with an adblocker, you see none of that shit - which you should have been running 30 years ago, as well as today.

Additionally, everyone keeps piling onto this “AI Generated” bandwagon even though a bunch of it isn’t. Any time they see a mistake, they think it’s AI and not some basement-grown dweeb with a inferiority complex.

The term “Enshitification” encapsulates when a high quality service exists, and is reduced in quality for the purposes of profit. If anything, the internet grants higher quality access to things today than it ever has; for cheaper prices, and faster speeds…

I’m paying $60 a month for symmetrical gigabit fiber access to the internet. Gigabit upload speeds! For 60 a month! How in tf world is that worse than what we had before?

This shit is absolutely atrocious and shows how far we’ve fallen.

Microsoft almost got broken up as a company over simply BUNDLING a browser. Now they’re actively hijacking other installs to put big warnings up and redirecting to theirs. It’s absolutely bonkers this is allowed.