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The article “The Slow Death of the Power User” argues that deliberate actions by major tech companies have eroded users' technical literacy and autonomy, turning them into passive consumers reliant on managed platforms. This decline harms users' ability to audit, adapt, and innovate while consolidating control and surveillance in monopolistic ecosystems, with no clear industry or regulatory solution in sight—leaving individual effort to preserve technical competence as the only recourse.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/