r/enshittification

Ive went to 3 stores today looking for bread/bagels/cinnamon rolls, every single store I shit you not either the last day of its life or expired that day, how is this legal? I am literally unable to get non-expired bread because these shitty ass corporations care about nothing except profits, and they've like fucking doubled in price recently, im hungry and not for stale fucking bread, genuinely im at a loss for what I can do other than start a fucking wheat farm and bread processing plant in my back yard, fuck im so tired of all my food being expired within 24 hours of me getting it.

I could totally be wrong, and please correct me if I am, but over the last few weeks, maybe a month or more, I have noticed podcast ads have hugely multiplied in number, like on the order of 100% more ads.

And this isn't just iHeart podcasts, but others as well.

Podcasts that I thought previously were outlandish at 2.5 minutes of ads on the front end, are now rocking 4.5 minutes of ads on the front end.

Podcasts that previously did 1 minute (two 30 second ads) are now doing 2-3 minutes.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly complaining. I like not paying for podcasts. And at the same time, longer ad breaks are actually better because they're easier to skip through. And I am happy for the podcast producers (some of them) to get good and paid, while I don't listen to ads.

But I just wanted to see if anyone else had noticed the same marked increase in the last month or so.

Advertisements are slowly ruining my mental health. They are fucking everywhere. Forced ideologies and products shoved down all of our throats. Never in my fucking life have i bought something or thought a different way because of an ad.

They have reduced the scent oils so much that their stuff smells almost like nothing! The scents there are SOOOO faint now! We almost walked right past the store without noticing. You used to be able to smell the store front 2 stores down! We were burying our noses in the candles, and they smelled like barely anything!! The body sprays all just smelled like alcohol!! And it's not my nose going blind, because I did finally find a rose body spray and an ocean hand sanitizer that at least had SOME scent, but they have cut the fragrance oils on most things that they barely smell like anything! And I was looking forward to getting a new Christmas candle, as mine from 2 years ago is almost gone, but now they just smell like ... wax!

Suggestions on how we can vote with our money to slow down enshitification:

Don’t buy stuff from large corporations. Instead of going to McDonald’s, go to a local restaurant.

Instead of buying cheap crap at Costco, buy good stuff from smaller vendors. I’ve looked at low price clothes at Costco, and refused to buy them since they were grab

Any other suggestions?.

No, I don't want AI on my phone, I want my hands free Google Assistant...but it's now gone. So, on my drive into work, I ask it to "play the news" and it used to play the prepared 5 or 10 minutes of news outlets I pre-selected -- now it displays various views articles (in print) on the phone... nice update.

Searching through eBay for old comic books, recently. And remembering how much easier the process was on half.com before eBay swallowed it.

It’s been awhile, but eBay hasn’t matched that UI in awhile.

A shame no one seems to have been able to recreate a similar service.