By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/06/2026WEI's creators said they were only trying to put the web on a level playing field with apps, which routinely rat you out to the companies you connect to. 42/ 161
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/06/2026Apps are a source of bottomless enshittification, not least because (unlike the web), they enjoy special, dangerous legal protections that make it *very* legally risky to modify them: pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/u... 43/pluralistic.netPluralistic: You can’t fight enshittification (31 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1100
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/06/2026WEI wasn't an effort to level the playing field between apps and the web - it was *a race to the bottom*, an attempt to make the web as enshittogenic as the app hellscape. 44/ 1100
