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by motbus3 24 days ago
Since beginning of 2025 big corps turned to be each time more anti consumer. They feel quite comfortable. I wonder what happened for them to feel like that.
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Sounds to me like you just became aware of it in 2025. This has been happening for forever. Keeping with the electronics example, the Phoebus cartel was lowering the lifespan of lightbulbs in the 1920s. The US government seemed to be stricter on it at that time (I mean in the 1920s), but billions of dollars in lobbying will change that over time.
> Since beginning of 2025

I suggest you to study the birth of consumer protection laws on the beginning of the 20th century, such as the birth of the FTC in 1914. It was a time when milk and beer were routinely adulterated, most meat was contaminated and all sorts of cartels did price fixing [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission_Act_o...

So what happened to FTC in 2025 that it’s not doing anymore consumer protection?
Hmm, could it possible be a change in government's policies, more friendly towards corporations? Nah, I am probably inventing conspiracy theories... /s
Pretty sure that phone companies have been anti-customer ever since the invention of the telephone.
Well, they are providing a valuable service to society. How much money should they be allowed to profit for providing this service?
Potentially lots of money, potentially none, but they should be honest about the capabilities and lifetimes of their products and not make that profit through bait-and-switch and other lies.
Reminds me of a recent tweet:

> this has been talked about extensively you're just 21

This isn't new behavior. Not by years, but decades.

Any actual evidence to backup this claim?
Are you serious?

Only in the last week we have Sony deleting paid-for movies. That is pretty anti-consumer.

I realize all of this is empirical, but the term enshitification just didn’t form out of thin air.

He's probably looking for evidence of "Since beginning of 2025". (I'm curious too)

Feels like we've been on the same train for over a decade.

just since 2025?
Well… since then but also before then.