Apps 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:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems
WEI 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.
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Cory Doctorow
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