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The DIY Deshittification Guide: An Overview

 September 27, 2026

The DIY Deshittification Guide: An Overview

At the end of my post on how to deshittify Facebook, I promised Amazon was next. Then I sat down to write it and realized the problems (plural) posed by Amazon's enshittification are much different than Facebook's, and we should start by looking at what kinds of problems we'll be trying to work around, and why.

For each company we deal with (Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Netflix and other streamers, banks, ...) the kind of dystopian trap we're in changes what "making it less bad" even means.

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The DIY Deshittification Guide: Making Facebook Slightly Less Terrible

 June 23, 2026

The DIY Deshittification Guide: Making Facebook Slightly Less Terrible

When you first started using Facebook, suddenly friends and family who you hadn't seen in years were closer! It was even free!

This was before you realized that you were the product. Remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal?

To refresh your memory: In the mid 2010s, a British political consulting firm called Cambridge Analytica obtained data from tens of millions of Facebook users and used it for targeted political advertising, including work related to the 2016 Trump campaign. The sneaky scheme they used to get the data came from an academic-style personality quiz app created by researcher Aleksandr Kogan. Facebook’s APIs let the app harvest not only users' data but also much of their friends’ data, even though those friends had never consented.

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