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3CX

3CX, Inc., is a software development company and developer of the 3CX Phone System founded in Cyprus in 2005-11-01. The 3CX Phone System is a digital private branch exchange (PBX) based on the…

3D printers
3D Printing restrictions and bans

3D Printing Restrictions and Bans is a practice in which businesses, platforms, or governments impose legal, technical, or policy-based limitations on how consumer 3D printers may be used. These…

4k Video Downloader+

4k Video Downloader+ is a program created by InterPromo GMBH used to download videos from YouTube and other video sources.

5CA

5CA is a customer support outsourcing and technology company used by gaming and tech brands.

7-Eleven

7-Eleven is an American retailer store that is an subsidiary of Seven eleven Japan that is owned by Seven & I Holdings. Founded in 1927 by Joe C. Thompson, originally known as Southland Ice Company…

Accellion data breach

Around Mid December in 2020, several hacker group going by the names FIN11, UNC2546, and CLOP, infiltrated Accellion systems using SQL injection, affecting organizations delving to various aspects of…

Acer

Acer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational company that produces computer hardware and electronics, headquartered in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. It was founded in 1976 and originally called…

Acer Leap Ware smartwatch bricked by discontinuation
Activation

Activation is a license or service validation procedure. It may involve sending information about a device, a license or a licensee to a service provider, and receiving some information that is…

Activision Blizzard

Activision Blizzard, Inc., often referred to as ABK (Activision-Blizzard-King), or Acti-Blizz, is an American video-game holding company. On 13 October 2023, Microsoft acquired ABK for $68.7 billion.

Ad block

Ad blocking is the practice of blocking advertisements, typically through automated means. Typical goals for doing this are reducing distractions, lowering the extent of data collection, decreasing…

ADDW car systems legislated in the EU

The European Union (EU) has passed legislation that mandates Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) systems for new cars produced for sale within the EU (Article 6 clause D).

Adware

Adware (combination of words advertisement and software) is a piece of software that is designed to display advertisements. This description is used for software that is displaying ads excessively…

Age verification

Age Verification (AV), also referred to as Age Affirmation (AA) and Age gating, is the process in where a business requires some form of identification to verify your age. This is usually done for…

AirAsia

AirAsia is a budget airline based in Malaysia. In 2007, The New York Times described AirAsia as a pioneer of low-cost travel in Asia. As of November 2025, they serve Asia, the Middle East, and…

AirPods

AirPods are wireless earbuds designed by Apple. They first debuted on 7 September 2016, alongside the iPhone 7, and were released on 13 December 2016.

AirPods connection vulnerability
AirPods Max moisture issue
Airsoft GI

Airsoft GI (GI Toys) was launched in 2003 and has quickly become America's #1 retailer of airsoft guns and accessories. Airsoft GI is a company run by airsoft players for airsoft players. Almost all…

Airtel Axis Credit Card devaluation

Airtel Axis Credit card has been devalued effective 12 April 2026.

Airthings ASA app release

Airthings ASA sells air monitors and purifiers, which customers can pair with a mobile app in order to access the air measurements and various additional services. On May 21, 2024, they sent an…

Akelius

Akelius is a corporate landlord that owns 20,000 rental apartments in major cities such as New York, Boston, Washington, Austin, Toronto, Montreal, Québec City, Ottawa, Paris and London.

Alliance Laundry Solutions and Speed Queen

Alliance Laundry Systems and Speed Queen, a US-based company and subsidiary with systems rolling out across both north and south America has created an exploitative system with negative implications…

Allstate

Allstate, founded in 1931, is an American insurance provider that also operates in Canada. The company owns several subsidiaries, many of which carry the Allstate name, as well as Esurance. It is one…

Alltech Services Inc

AllTech Services, Inc.

Ally Financial

Ally Financial Inc. is a US-based company offering banking, securities, and other financial services through its subsidiaries such as Ally Bank, Ally Invest Advisers Inc.

Ally Invest Securities

Ally Invest Securities, LLC (also known as Ally Invest) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ally Financial which provides securities brokerage and financial services. Ally Invest provides services to…

Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc. is a global leader in e-commerce, cloud computing, and digital streaming founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos. Originally launched as an online bookstore, Amazon quickly expanded into a…

Amazon allows fraudulent product page after manual review

Sellers on Amazon can list products, gather reviews for them, and then modify the listings to sell entirely different items while retaining the reviews from the previously sold products…

Amazon Fire TV

Amazon Fire TV is a line of streaming devices and smart TVs powered by Amazon's Fire OS (based on Android). The primary Fire TV devices is the Fire Stick line, which consists of portable HDMI…

Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle is a product line of e-readers made by Amazon.

Amazon Luna revocation of third-party games

On 10 April 2026, Amazon announced it would end support for individual game purchases and third-party storefront integrations on its Luna cloud gaming platform, revoking cloud-streaming access for…

Amazon revokes access to their Appstore on non-Amazon devices

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 sued for enrolling and charging customers into Audible without consent

Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon, has two pending class action lawsuits against it for enrolling Amazon customers into the Audible membership without their consent and charging them the $14.95 monthly…

AMD

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD is an American technology company that designs and sells computer components such as central processing unit (CPUs), graphics processing unit (GPUs) and related…

Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com, owned by The Blackstone Group, is a genealogy company based in the US, known for its DNA testing and family trees.

Android

Android is an operating system which started in 2003 and was acquired by Google in 2005, which made its first official release (Android 1.0) in 2008. It is based on a modified version of the Linux…

Android data collection

This article addresses the manner in which Android phones share personal user information with Google, usually in a complete user unaware and unapproved way, and the legal consequences Google has…

Android System SafetyCore

Android System SafetyCore is an app developed and released by Google for the Android platform. According to Google the software provides locally-run nudity censoring for any Android devices running…

Anthem

Anthem was an always-online multiplayer action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts (EA). The game was released on 22 February 2019 on the PlayStation 4…

Anthem server shutdown

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…

Anthropic

Anthropic PBC is a private for-profit American artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded in 2021. Anthropic is mainly known for their family of large language models (LLMs) known as Claude.

Anti-Cheat Expert

Anti-Cheat Expert commonly abbreviated as "ACE" is an modular anti-cheat system developed by Tencent, that initially released in 2005 as a anti-bot solution for Free Fantasy Online. ACE provides…

Anti-privacy legislation

Anti-privacy legislation simply put is legislation that may be created with malicious intent or not that invoke ones right to privacy. In the last decade, governments across the world have introduced…

Aotearoa/New Zealand consumer law

The corner stone of Aotearoa/New Zealand consumer law is the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993. This act guarantees consumers five basic rights when buying goods. Goods must be - of acceptable quality…

Apple App Store

Apple uses a range of technical measures to maintain control over the App Store ecosystem. While Apple cites security and user-friendliness as the reasoning behind these measures, they often create…

Apple authorized service provider program

The Apple Authorized Service Provider Program is a program created by Apple that attempts to provide third party authorized repair technicians with sufficient resources to repair Apple products.

Apple introduces OS-level age verification

iOS, the operating system of the Apple iPhone, has introduced on its Beta version 26.4 an integrated Age Verification in the operating system. This feature will be launched on the United Kingdom…

Apple Media Services

Apple Media Services (AMS) is the umbrella term Apple uses to refer to many of its online services, including the App Store, iTunes Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, and more.

Apple Self Service Repair

Apple Self Service Repair is a service offered by Apple that provides repair manuals, genuine Apple parts and tools for consumers to repair Apple devices. The service first became available in the…

Apple's planned obsolescence incidents

Apple actively makes it near-impossible for third-parties and consumers to repair their products while maintaining their full, intended functionality.

Arby's

Founded in 1964 by Forest Raffel and Leroy Raffel (or known as the Raffel Brothers), Arby's IP Holder, LLC is a American fast food chain specializing in sandwiches and milkshakes. It is a subsidiary…

Arduino

Arduino, now a subsidiary of Qualcomm, is an Italian open-source hardware and software, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller…

Ariston

Ariston is a brand under the Ariston Group, known for manufacturing thermal comfort solutions such as water heaters, boilers, heat pumps, and air conditioners.

Arlo

Arlo is a surveillance camera company established in 2014, originally as a division of Netgear. It has been an independent company since 2018. It specializes in smart home security products including…

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science that produces systems designed to solve problems that humans typically solve using intelligence. In the consumer and industry space, it is…

Artificial intelligence/training

AI training is a process by which data is fed into an AI model, in order to adjust its weights. This makes the output of the model closely match that of its input.

Assioma

Assioma is a product line of power meter pedals designed for cyclists by Favero, a company based in Italy. It was renamed from bePRO in 2017.

ASUS

ASUS (ASUSTeK Computer Inc.) is a multinational technology company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of computers, laptops, motherboards, graphics cards…

ASUS "sliding clip" battery connector defect

ASUS laptops manufactured between 2020 and 2024, including the Zephyrus G14 and Strix G16 series, feature a hazardous battery connector design where a non-insulated metal sliding clip can easily pop…

ASUS downgrades a well-reviewed monitor panel

The VG259QM 280Hz IPS 24.5-inch monitor was released in late 2020 with a Qisda Panel to excellent reviews. Users eventually noticed that their VG259QM monitors appeared as an inferior AUO panel. This…

Asustor Drivestor NAS
AT&T

AT&T, Inc. is a major telecommunications holding company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Atlassian

Atlassian is a global software company that offers a wide range of services, primarily consisting of cloud-based and traditional software products.

ATSC 3.0

ATSC 3.0, also known as NextGenTV (in the U.S.A.) or TV 3.0 DTV+ (in Brazil), is a television protocol for terrestrial (over-the-air) broadcasting. It promises to deliver over 4K resolution and 120…

Audi

Audi is a Germany-based automotive manufacturer owned by Volkswagen. Audi was founded on July 16, 1909 by August Horch in Zwickau, Germany. The Volkswagen Group acquired Audi in the 1960s from…

Audi basic HVAC "Sync" function paywalled

Audi equips all vehicles with the optional tri-zone climate control feature with the necessary hardware. Customers who do not purchase the option at the time of sale still receive the hardware, but…

Audible class action lawsuit
Audible subsidizes its streaming plan via premium credits

Audible, an audiobook marketplace and subsidiary of Amazon, is changing its royalty structure to subsidize its streaming service with premium credit purchases. In August 2025, the new structure took…

Aura
Australia Competition and Consumer Act 2010

"The object of this Act is to enhance the welfare of Australians through the promotion of competition and fair trading and provision for consumer protection." The Act is administered by…

Autel

Autel is a developer, manufacturer, and distributor of professional automotive diagnostic tools, equipment, and accessories.

Authy

Authy is a free mobile app that generates random six-digit tokens to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for online services. Authy was acquired by Twilio in 2015.

Automatic content recognition

Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) is a feature in certain kinds of devices manufacturers use to collect consumer data, visuals and audio, at periodic intervals, which grants the manufacturing…

Avid Technology

Avid Technology Inc. is a US-based multimedia and technology company located in Massachusetts formed in August of 1987 that specializes in providing solutions for the professional audio, video, and…

AWS Lightsail won't cancel

AWS Lightsail is a set of services within Amazon Web Services that provides virtual-servers with popular pre-configured software options - such as a Wordpress server. It is notable for more-or-less…

Axis

Axis is a video surveillance company with approximately 4,000 employees across more than 50 countries that was founded in 1984 and headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

Axis Bank

Axis Bank is a Indian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai. General banking services like savings account, current account, credit card, mutual funds, loans…

Bambu Farm Manager

In 2020, Bambu Lab was founded by a small group of DJI engineers. The company joined the 3D-printing scene with its low-barrier-to-entry model aimed at consumers. Bambu Lab quickly gained significant…

Bandai Namco EULA
Bandcamp
Bandicam
Bandicam perpetual license invalidation
Belkin
Best Buy
Best Buy discontinuation of Insignia Connect
BetterHelp
Bing
Bitly QR Code preview page advertising
Bloomberg
Bloomberg DMCA strikes GamersNexus video
BMW
Bootloader unlocking
Bosch
Bosch cloud dishwasher incident
Bose
BowFlex, Inc.
Box Tops for Education
Brainly
Brave browser
Brave puts affiliated links in the address bar
Brax
Breville Coffee Maker
Brilliant
Broadcom Inc.
Brother DCP-L3550CDW aftermarket toner failure
Buffalo Wild Wings
Bumpgate
Bungie
Bunnings
Burger King
ByteDance
California Privacy Rights Act
Canadian bread price fixing
Canadian internet providers circumvent CRTC protection
Canonical
Canva
Canva 2019 data breach
Canva Affinity Studio adds arbitration clause
Capital One Shopping
CARIAD
Carly
Cerberus
Cerberus Phone Security Login with ad blocker no longer possible
CgNAT
Chamberlain Group
Change.org
Charles Schwab
Chat Control
ChatGPT-4o
Chevron
Chick-fil-A
Chipotle
Chrome OS ends support for school Chromebooks
Cinemark
Circular economy
Cisco Requiring a service contract to download in-support device firmware
Cisco Smart Licensing
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Claude
Clearview AI
Click Adventure
Click-to-cancel
Clippy Campaign
Cloudflare
Clover Network, Inc.
Coffee Meets Bagel
Coles 'Down Down' price manipulation
Colgate
Comcast
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Commonwealth Bank collection of biometric data
CompTIA
Consumer Advice (UK)
Consumer Technology Association
Corporate greed
Costco
Costco's collection and sharing of data through Meta's tracking pixel
Covert web-to-app tracking by Meta and Yandex
Creality
Creative Fabrica licensing risks and ownership verification concerns
Cricut
Crunchyroll
Cryptic Studios
CSS tracking
Cuisinart
CursorAI adds rate limits to unlimited plans
CYBERGUN
CYMA Airsoft
Daily Wire + lifetime Membership Terms Scope of the Subscription
Dairy Queen
Dark pattern
Data lock-in
Datacolor "sunsetting" older Spyder monitor calibrators
DAZN
De-anonymization
Dead star server shutdown
Deceptive language frequently used against consumers
DeepSeek
Deerrun walking pads & treadmills startup
Delisting and shut down of Age of Empires 3
Dell
Denon HEOS Speakers
Denuvo
Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB)
Device bricking
Device lifecycle
Deye
Digital Fairness Act
Disabling online features in retaliation
Disboard
Disc rot
Discontinuation bricking
Discord
Discord's mandatory age verification
Disney
Disney requires an active subscription to delete a Disney+ account
Disney+
Disney+ ad policy change
DIW7022 mandatory wireless operation
DMarket
Domino's
Doordash
DuckDuckGo
Duracell Energy EV Charger
Dymo
Dynamic pricing
Dyson
Dyson covers circuit board in glue
Dyson V10/V11 trigger design
E-Bike Tuning Detection: Bosch and Yamaha’s Anti-Tampering Systems
EA moves to in-house kernel-level anti-cheat on PC after purchase
EA requires Battlefield 6 players to change motherboard settings
EBay
EBay opts-in users for AI training
Ecoflow
EINSTAR VEGA hidden activation requirement before file transfer is enabled
Elgato forces Stream Deck users to sign up
Elon Musk
Emerson Sensi Smart Thermostat - ST55U
Enshittification
Entities refusing to distribute copyleft licensed software under license terms
EO
Epic Games
Epic Games forces third party account creation in Rocket League
Epik
Epson printer waste ink counter restrictions
Etoro
Eufy
European Consumer Centre on the Lack of Quality Standards for Exalted Skins
EVGA
EviCore
Excessive data collection by cars
Extron
EZVIZ
F-Droid
F1TV concurrent streams limit
Facebook account recovery requires mobile phone verification with limited non-SMS alternatives
Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update
Fake lifetime license
Fal (AI company)
False advertising
Fandom
Feature ransom
Federal Communications Commission
Ferrari
Figma
Figma threatens companies using "Dev Mode"
Fiio
Financial censorship
Fingerprinting
Firefox
First Press Games not producing goods paid for
Fisher-Price discontinues Smart Connect app
Fitbit
Flightradar24
Forced account
Forced app download
Forced cloud
Forced eSIMs
Forced indemnification
Forced retention of payment methods
Forced User Agreement on Jetbrains IntelliJ software
Forcing full motherboard replacement in mid range phones
Ford Mustang Mach E 2026 Requires Payment for Frunk
Fortnite
Fossify
Free software movement
Frontier Airlines
Fruitbat Factory
FTC Lawsuit against Turbo Tax free software
Fujifilm Instax Cameras
Funimation "Forever" content license revocation
Future Motion
Futurehome
Game-of-telephone privacy policy
GameSpy
GameStop
GameStop Short Squeeze
GE Appliances
Geeni
General Electric refrigerators
General Motors
General Motors (OnStar)
Generative artificial intelligence
Gigantti pressured additional subscriptions
GitHub
Glance
Glasswire
GOG.com
GoGuardian
GoIt changing its warranty conditions post-sale
Good2Go Mobile (Canada) phases out 3G network, Merges with LuckyMobile
Goodlife now requires app to access gyms
Google Chrome automatically disables uBlock Origin
Google Chromebook
Google forces your device to join their "Find Hub" network, hard to opt out
Google Gemini
Google Mobile Services
Google Nest
Google Nest Protect forced to use Google app
Google OnHub
Google password manager overrides third-party autofill
Google Pixel 6a Battery Performance Program
Google Pixel 9 Pro camera bar separates from phone body
Google Pixel Buds
Google Pixel Buds "Touch and Hold" discontinuation
Google Pixel Watch
Google Pixel Watches do not come with repair options
Google search engine supports opaqueness for companies
GoPro
GoPro advertises waterproof cameras despite design flaw and lack of warranty
GoPro Karma
GoTo Group
GREE Electric
Greenwashing
Groupon
Gryphon Online Safety, Inc.
Guardzilla
Gun Safe Widespread Deceptive Advertising
H&R Block
Haier
Happiest Baby
Hardware as a service
Hauptwerk expiration of perpetual license download
HBO Max
HealthEquity difficult login
Healthline
Helldivers 2
HelloSimply.com
HelloSimply.com: easy to subscribe, difficult to unsubscribe
Hikvision
Hisense
Hisense adds unskippable ads to its GUI on the Spanish models
Hisense H9G Smart TV
HNGRYnsite Camera: From smart kitchen aid to e-waste
Hogwarts Legacy
Home Bargains
Home Connect
Honda
Hotelgiftcard creates surprising expenses for consumers
HP adds 15 minutes to all customer service phone calls
HP Instant Ink
HP Reverb G2
HP systemic DRM and firmware lockouts
Huawei
Humane Inc.
ICloud
ID.me
Ikawa Coffee
ILife
In-N-Out Burger
Inactive account deletion
Insta360 X5
Insta360+
Instagram
Instagram removes end-to-end encryption for direct messages
Intel
Intel CPUs stability issue
Intel Management Engine
Interactive Brokers
Interchangeable parts
Internet Archive
Internet of things
Invitation Homes
IP Biometrix
IPhone
IPhone 6 error 53 fingerprint sensor incident
Itch.io
Itron
Jack in the Box
Jagex revokes grandfathered RuneScape monthly subscription pricing after purchasing yearly subscription
Jailbreak
JavaScript
Jeep
JetBlue Travel Credits
JetBrains retires CodeCanvas
Jimmy John's
Kemper guitar amplifer modeler puts features behind paywall after firmware update
Kerbal Space Program 2
Kernel level driver
Keychron k13 pro
Keyshot
KFC
Kilter Board
KingSong
KPN mandatory SMS authentication
Kroger
Kwik Trip
Kwikset discontinues Kevo smart lock app
L.A. Noire "Patch" mandates use Rockstar Games Launcher and Social Club account
LA Fitness makes it purposely difficult to cancel memberships
LaLiga forces Spanish ISPs to mass-block Cloudflare IPs during Soccer Games
Lamborghini
Leadwerks
League of Legends: Exalted Skins Exclusive Cosmetics
Lebara
Legal lockout
Lemmy
Lenovo
Lenovo Mirage AR
LG
LG Bootloader incident
LG G4 malfunctions
Liberty Safe
Life360
Life360 Terms of Service forced arbitration agreement
Lightspeed Aviation
Lincare Holdings Inc.
Linea Sketch revokes lifetime licenses
LinkedIn
List of car models with anti-ownership and anti-privacy practices
List of companies that block Internet Archive
List of discontinued online-only video games
List of kernel-level anti cheats
List of phones that do not allow bootloader unlock
List of products and services with post-purchase license change
List of products bricked by discontinuation
Little Machine Shop
Logitech
Logitech G HUB
Logitech Harmony
Logitech webcams
Magic Leap
MagicGate
MakerBot
Malicious compliance
Malwarebytes
ManyCam
Mastercard
Maytag
Mazda
McDonald's
Medical equipment
Mega.io
Memrise
Meraki MS390
Mercado Libre
Mercedes-Benz
Mercury Insurance
Merkury Innovations
Meta AI permanent account suspensions
Meta Portal
Micron
Micron retires Crucial products from consumer business
Microsoft
Microsoft account
Microsoft Authenticator
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot's recall feature
Microsoft ends use of bypassnro.cmd for Windows 11
Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac
Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows 11
Miele
MikroTik ignoring WiFi disconnecting after firmware upgrade on hAP ax3 / ax2 / cAP ax
Miku Terms of Service and Arbitration
Minecraft
Minecraft Chat Reporting and Restriction
Minecraft enforcing undisclosed server EULA terms
Minecraft LAN gameplay paywall
MinestoreCMS converting your license without approval
MIRC
MitID
Mitsubishi Group
Model F Labs
Moderation problems in online marketplaces
Mojang
Mojang shuts down community-run Minecraft servers
Molekule did not disclose air purifier data vulnerability
Monetization overload
Monopoly
Monoprice
Monsanto
Motorola
Movies Anywhere
Mozilla
MSI
MSI motherboard CMOS battery obsolescence
Namecheap
Nanoleaf
National Security Agency
Neato cloud shutdown
Nestlé
Netatmo
Netatmo Zigbee devices refuse to connect to third-party gateways
Netgate
NetLimiter
Nike Adapt
Nintendo
Nintendo Switch Online
Nintendo third-party dock restrictions
Nissan
Nissan shuts 2G car service in UK
Nitro PDF license deactivating
Nitro Pro
Non-disclosure agreement
Non-fungible tokens