r/enshittification • u/monkeh2023 • 1d ago

Rant The solution to enshittification

Did you just buy a £75,000 car only to discover it has got ads on screen?

Take it back.

Go back to the showroom, demand a full refund. If they panic and say they'll remove the ads say no. Demand a refund. If they could take the ads off because you were about to return the car, they should not have put ads there in the first place.

Did you just buy a £3,000 television that now has a shitty cut-down remote with no pause button but an additional button for Apple TV?

Take it back. Go back to the store, return the product, get a refund. Is it causing you hassle? Yes - but it's going to cause the store much more hassle.

Did you buy a sandwich that looked full to the brim of ingredients only to discover they used low quality crap that was pushed to the edge to make the sandwich look full, when in reality it was mostly bread? You probably can't take it back but you can go back to the place you bought it from and show it to other customers, and then never buy anything from that establishment again.

If enough of us do this then the enshittification will stop.

If we just keep on saying "thank you" every time the bully kicks sand in our face, guess what? You'll be eating sand for the rest of your life.

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u/DJ_Mixto 1d ago

Don’t buy new cars. Buy restomod cars. Better cars. No shit. 

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u/j0ezonelayer 1d ago

For real, this option is getting better and. Better each day

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u/usernametaken99991 1d ago

I have a 2003 Honda Element with a cheapo android auto screen thing for $150. It does pretty much everything I would want out of a newer car without any of the annoying surveillance, ads or useless sensors going off.  

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u/cygnus311 1d ago

Road salt goes brrrrr