2025 incidents

Amazon Echo is a series of client devices for the Amazon Alexa voice control platform for connected smart homes. Echo products have long offered the option to disable cloud voice analysis and perform…

On 26 February 2025, Amazon removed the "download and transfer via USB" feature from their website. This means Amazon Kindle users are no longer able to download their purchased e-books from Amazon's…

In August of 2025, Amazon revoked access to the Amazon App Store on all non-Amazon Android devices. Customers will now be required to purchase Amazon hardware, such as Fire TV or Fire Tablet, if they…

Amazon charges non-Prime customers $19.99 per month for Alexa+, a generative AI upgrade to the Alexa voice assistant, while bundling it free with Prime memberships that cost $14.99 per month. The…

On July 3, 2025, Electronic Arts (EA) and BioWare announced the "sunsetting", or server shutdown, of their video game Anthem, with January 12, 2026, set as the shutdown date. Premium in-game currency…

MacOS Autodesk Fusion users will be presented with a warning upon launching the application on an Intel based MacOS device running OpenCore legacy and macOS 15 Sequoia or earlier. The corresponding…

On January 16, 2025, the 3D-printer manufacturer Bambu Lab announced that future firmwares for their 3D printers would introduce an authorization and authentication protection mechanism for their…

Bandicam is a PC screen capture and recording software capable of taking screenshots and recording screen changes. It is shareware, meaning that it can be used for free with limited functionality and…

Bitly has introduced "preview pages" for QR code and Bitly links, which may contain advertising, before users are directed to the destination link. Users must subscribe to a paid plan in order to…

BlackVue mandatory app registration removed the ability for dashcam owners to connect to their locally present camera over Wi-Fi without first creating an account & logging in over the internet…

GamersNexus, a pro consumer tech publication had their YouTube video taken down by Bloomberg as they claimed a DMCA violation on a fair use snippet from their coverage of Donald Trump's speech.

An update to BlueDriver OBD2 scan tool's iOS and Android apps required the user create and use an account for any functionality at all. This is in direct contrast to how the app functioned prior…

BMW has a subscription-based service called ConnectedDrive. BMW chose to restrict this service, making certain functions removed or not as powerful, causing issues for many users.

BMW patented a fastener whose head is shaped like the company's roundel logo, designed so that no standard screwdriver, hex key, or Torx bit can engage it. The patent (DE102024115950), filed on June…

Booking.com processes over 1.1 billion room nights per year across 3.4 million properties, but its booking flow doesn't require hosts to show all terms before the consumer pays. Consumers have…

In October 2025, Bose Corporation announced that it would end cloud support for its entire SoundTouch product line on February 18, 2026. The decision sparked widespread consumer backlash, as owners…

Canva, the company that acquired Serif (parent company of Affinity and its respective graphic editing software) has removed the ability for users to purchase older versions of the Affinity…

CFMOTO changed the terms of service for the CFMOTO Ride mobile application by introducing a paid subscription model for its intelligent services. These changes, implemented on August 15, 2025…

Click Adventure was a fake Steam game used to drain wallet funds from pre-compromised user accounts through the Steam Community Marketplace. Published by "Folso Dev" on August 6, 2025, the game…

Meta and Yandex use a covert tracking method on Android: their native apps (Facebook, Instagram, Yandex apps) listen on fixed localhost ports, and scripts on websites forward browser cookies and…

Crave, the Canadian streaming service owned by Bell Media, stopped supporting its app on Samsung smart TVs manufactured before 2018 as of September 15, 2025. Crave's device compatibility page now…

Creality has removed access to previously available features such as scanning directly with a phone link (connecting the phone directly to the 3d scanner), without the use of proprietary hardware…

Creative Fabrica is an online marketplace for fonts, graphics, and design assets, including a premium All Access Subscription marketed with commercial-use licensing. The service is widely used by…

Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests & forcing them to upgrade to regain functionality.

Derrimut 24:7 Gym, an Australian gym chain that is marketed as offering round-the-clock access (with "24:7" in both its name and domain), suddenly announced reductions to operating hours February…

Dictionary.com shuts down premium ad free app after selling lifetime subscriptions, user word lists and offline accessible dictionary no longer accessible. They continue to run an ad supported app.

On 3rd October 2025, Discord published a press release stating that one of their third-party service providers, later revealed to be 5CA, was the target of a data breach. Discord states that they…

In January 2025, Disney+ updated its Subscriber Agreement to include provisions allowing advertisements in content across all subscription tiers, including those marketed as "no ads" or "ad free."

In February 2025, Electronic Arts (EA) made an announcement that the source code of older titles from the Command & Conquer video game franchise were recovered, and made public under the GPLv3…

In August of 2025, Electronic Arts (EA) launched an open beta for their upcoming release, Battlefield 6. Like other new EA titles, Battlefield 6 uses EA's proprietary anti-cheat system, which…

On the 21st of April, 2025, eBay's privacy policy was updated to allow eBay to use personal data for the training of their in-house and third-party AIs.

A July 2025 firmware update pushed by Echelon Fitness retroactively blocked third-party fitness applications from connecting to their devices. The update affected users of QZ (qdomyos-zwift), an…

With the v2.48 patch on January 29th, 2025, Steam users wanting to play Rocket League were suddenly met with an error upon startup of the game, with the user being required to create an account with…

UK-based news sites have recently implemented the consent-or-pay model, creating a binary choice where readers must either consent to cookies or pay to opt out of data tracking. This consent-or-pay…

The Spirit Blossom Morgana skin, released by Riot Games on June 25th, 2025, is part of the developer's new "Exalted" skin tier, marketed as ultra-premium digital content for the game League of…

At the start of the 2025 Formula 1 season, F1TV started limiting the amount of concurrent streams you could watch with F1TV pro (the highest subscription plan in 2024). At the start of the 2025…

Final Draft is an industry-standard screenwriting software. It announced in January 2025 that it was discontinuing activation services for Final Draft 10.

In February 2025 Mozilla introduced terms of service (TOS) for the Firefox browser for the first time as well as an updated privacy policy. These terms of service contain a section about the rights…

The Google Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 are Smart Watches / Fitness Trackers designed, developed and marketed by Fitbit, now owned by Google. Both devices have reached their end of support. Google…

In May 2025, leaked internal communications revealed that Flock Safety, a $7.5 billion surveillance technology company, planned to incorporate data from known data breaches into its Nova law…

Futurehome was accused of ransoming customer devices by forcing them to pay a subscription fee, or face disabled core functionality. In 2025, after the company went bankrupt, Futurehome's new owners…

Good2Go Mobile is a cellphone provider that offered prepaid sim cards with no data. This company was advertised as a no contract cellphone service until the end of July 2025. That's when they decided…

On 25 August 2025, Google announced that starting in 2026, the company will block the installation of Android apps from outside the Play Store unless the developer has verified their identity with…

On March 4, 2025, Google Chrome automatically disabled uBlock Origin, the most popular content blocker to date, for all users as part of shift to the Manifest V3 version of Chrome.

Google has added some Android devices to their "Find Hub" network without the users consent, only informing them via email, and giving only 2 days to opt-out. There is supposedly an opt-out link, but…

Google changed the terms of service for their 'Local Services Ads' program in the US and Canada. These changes allow Google to collect and analyze phone calls and chat messages between businesses and…

Google has announced significant changes to its Google Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector product line. The company is discontinuing the Nest Protect product line and requiring existing…

Google has announced the discontinuation of cloud-based support for first and second-generation Google Nest Learning Thermostats, affecting devices purchased between 2011-2014. While the thermostats…

Users of the Google Chrome Android app have reported that Google's password manager has blocked alternate password managers to be used on Chrome. This does not occur on other Android web browsers or…

The Google Pixel 6a is an Android smartphone designed, developed and marketed by Google. It was released on July 28, 2022. Android 16 is expected to be the last version supported with security…

The Play Integrity API is an API provided by Google for the Android Operating System that allows applications to verify the genuineness of the app's binary and Android version. It is the successor of…

Milan Digital Audio, developers of the Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ software, refused to provide installation files for older versions of their software to customers who purchased perpetual licenses…

In February 2025, HBO Max stripped 4K, HDR, and Dolby Atmos from European subscribers who had signed up with a 50% "lifetime" discount, unless those subscribers agreed to pay more for a Premium tier…

HealthyEquity is a health savings management service, think HSA account from your employer. Logging into this service requires a per-device passkey and password or OAuth authentication is not…

In February 2025, HP Inc. instituted a policy to artificially tell all consumer PC & print customers they will have to wait a minimum of 15 minutes when calling support. This was designed to…

Ioniq 5 N cars from Hyundai do not appear to allow for DIY brake pad replacement, due to Electronic Parking Brake (EPB) system software restrictions, as discovered by a Reddit user. The story was…

On January 30, 2025, Crunchyroll emailed US users of its server about an update to its terms of service through email and notifications on login. There were two main updates to the terms of service -…

Indeed, owned by Recruit Holdings, operates as one of the world's largest job search platforms with more than 350 million monthly unique visitors. The platform had large operational changes in…

Instacart is an American company which hosts a grocery delivery and pick-up service. Instacart has 7.7 million active users and reported 263 million orders and $2.2b gross profit in FY 2023. In 2022…

LA Fitness goes out of their way to make it as difficult as possible to cancel gym memberships by placing intentional barriers in the path of customers.

On December 3, 2025 Micron Technology announced that Crucial will exit from the consumer business to focus in the AI business. Micron no longer does Crucial product shipments, this since February…

In a Windows insider blog published March 28, 2025, under the section "[other] changes", the removal of bypassnro.cmd script is announced. This script is used to complete a new Windows installation…

In early 2025, some Xbox players discovered that Minecraft’s LAN multiplayer, previously available to anyone who had purchased the game, now required an active Xbox Game Pass subscription.

In May 2025, MinIO, Inc. released version 2.0 of its Object Browser, a web-based graphical interface for managing object storage. This update removed many previously free management features, leaving…

In October 2025, a security researcher discovered that Molekule's internet-connected air purifier network contained a vulnerability that could expose data from approximately 100,000 devices…

In September 2025, air purifier manufacturer Molekule sent emails to customers warning that devices using non-genuine replacement filters, detected using their Near Field Communication (NFC)…

In October 2025, MyFitnessPal began rolling out a mandatory update for its mobile application, marketed as the "brand new Today tab." The update was met with widespread criticism from users, who…

Neato Robotics was a company founded in 2005. In 2017, the company was acquired by the German company Vorwerk Group.

Ngenic Tune is a cloud-dependent smart thermostat for residential heating systems sold by Ngenic AB, a Swedish energy technology company based in Uppsala. Historically, customers could buy the…

With the release of Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo added encryption methods to the bottom of the consoles USB C port. Using a new encryption method as well as an encryption chip. The USB C port will…

On May 8th, 2025 (with changes generally effective May 7th-8th, 2025), Nintendo released significant updates to its Nintendo Account User Agreement and Privacy Policy. These revisions introduced new…

On May 5, 2025, Nitro Software, Inc. sent an email to perpetual license holders of Niro PDF, stating they would be revoking the licenses remotely.

At the start of CES 2025, GamersNexus, a pro consumer tech publication channel, uploaded a video to their YouTube channel exposing Nvidia's scheme of threatening them.

The NZ coalition government has been pushing for surveillance of every vehicle in the country. With no opt out manual option this will record the location and movements of everyone who drives and…

OtO Lawn is a company known for its smart irrigation and lawn care technology. Their OtO Lawn Solutions subscription model was discontinued during January 2025. Devices that were part of the…

On 17 January 2025, the FTC released a lawsuit against PepsiCo alleging price discrimination. The FTC stated that PepsiCo was selling their soft drink product line Pepsi to a certain retailer at a…