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Enshittification takes place when companies can move value around. Digital tools make this easier than ever to do, for example, by changing prices on a per-user, per-session basis, using surveillance data to predict the highest price or lowest wage a user will accept:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/
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