Credits

Acknowledgements

The intellectual debt

The framework behind this book is Cory Doctorow's. The naming is his. The decades of patient warning are his. If you have not read his work, read it first. Start with Enshittification, The Internet Con, and Chokepoint Capitalism, and subscribe to Pluralistic. This book works in territory he opened up: he named the disease, and Grift, Inc. brings the case files that ground the diagnosis.

Quotations from Doctorow's Pluralistic essays are used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, his chosen licence. Quotations from his trade books are used under fair use, with attribution.

The people who made it better

A book like this is the work of many people: the editors who pushed back, the beta readers who caught what did not land, and the early reviewers who stress-tested the cases. They are named here individually, each with their permission. If you read an early draft and want to be credited, write to hello@spspyrou.com.

This is also a debt to the people who did the original work the cases rest on: the litigators, the regulators, and above all the investigative journalists whose reporting made the record public in the first place.

Any errors that remain are mine.