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Is your favourite brand getting worse on purpose?

The latest Recomendo newsletter recommends you check that your favourite brand has not gotten enshittified. How? By seeing if it is "Approved" here:

Worse on Purpose rates 215 brands — tools, bags, apparel, eyewear, and footwear — as either Approved, Watchlist, Former Great, or Avoid. A sample: Ray-Ban is designated “Avoid” (“Priced as luxury, produced to commodity standards”). Another example: Peak Design is designated “Approved”, (because it is still founder-owned).