Escaping Enshittification: We're All Digital Migrants

Layer 0: A Splinter in the Mind Sometimes the most profound journeys begin not with excitement, but with unease. It wasn’t a single moment that pushed me away from the Google ecosystem. Rather, a growing discomfort had been creeping in, building up. It was the targeted ads that seemed to know too much, the dark-patterns becoming the norm, the shift towards an opt-out vs opt-in setup. It was the…