An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification

Watch a thought-provoking DEF CON 31 conference talk exploring how internet platforms follow a predictable decline pattern - starting with user-friendly services, then prioritizing business customers, and finally extracting maximum value for themselves before eventual collapse. Learn how corporate consolidation through mergers and acquisitions has reduced the internet to a handful of dominant platforms that continuously modify their systems to shift value away from users and business customers. Discover how government restrictions on user modifications like reverse-engineering, scraping, and bots have left users vulnerable to this degradation. Explore potential solutions including antitrust measures, corporate regulation through privacy laws, and user empowerment tools like alternative app stores and ad blockers to help restore balance to the internet ecosystem.