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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…

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, 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.

Adobe is a software company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in creative software, including photo editing, video editing, animation, illustration, web development, and more. Founded…

Starting in 2013, Adobe has been replacing its perpetually licensed products with subscription based services, examples being Adobe Creative Suite (CS) in 2013, and Adobe Lightroom 7 standalone in…

Advertising overload refers to the practice of not only integrating advertising as a source of revenue in software and websites, but also increasing the number of ads within platforms that consumers…

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

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…

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, 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…

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…

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

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

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 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…

Apple is an American technology company that was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Apple's current…

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…

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.

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.

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…

Autodesk, Inc. is an American software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that provides software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing…

Axon Enterprise, Inc. (formerly TASER International) is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based public "safety" technology company founded in 1993 by Rick Smith and Tom Smith. Axon develops and sells Tasers…

Balena (formerly known as Resin.io) provides a platform focused on DevOps management for servers, clients, and local cross platform device software. It also offers tools for updating, deploying and…

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…

After purchasing a Bandai Namco game, installing it and trying to use it for the first time, you are greeted by an EULA that you have to accept.

Bloatware can be defined in 2 main classes: Pre-installed or bundled: features not required by a system (physical or digital) to work properly, and/or undesirable programs. Software that has become…

The bootloader is a special program on a device that loads the operating system when the device is turned on. Bootloaders are typically set by the manufacturer and shipped to retailers and consumers…

Robert Bosch GmbH, commonly known as Bosch (styled BOSCH), is a German multinational engineering and technology company founded in 1886 by Robert Bosch.

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…

Brainly (originally Zadane.pl) is a Polish company and platform founded in 2009 by Michał Borkowski dedicated towards students assisting each other for homework online. In recent years, the platform…

Brother Industries Ltd. manufactures and sells communications and printing equipment in Japan, the Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. It operates through…

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is a financing option for online purchases that allows consumers to pay for items in four installments. Companies such as Klarna, Affirm, PayPal, and Apple Pay offer Buy…

Internet access is a monthly subscription to access a physical infrastructure. Modern internet connections use cable such a COAX or fiber optics to deliver TV and internet to homes across Canada…

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a generative artificial intelligence application developed and marketed by OpenAI. It was released on November 30th, 2022. It is a large language…

ChatGPT-4o was a language model that belonged to the ChatGPT family, that became controversial due to safety problems, AI psychosis and attempts to remove it from OpenAI's platform.

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and…

Claude is a generative artificial intelligence, a large language model (LLM) developed and released by Anthropic. It was created with the objective of being a safe AI for the public. Claude family…

Clearview AI, Inc. is an American facial recognition company, providing software to law enforcement, government agencies, and (previously) private companies. The Artificial intelligence (AI)-software…

Clip Studio Paint switched from a perpetual license to a subscription model. They had given users with a perpetual license free feature updates, but stopped after changes to the business model. When…

In August 2025, YouTuber Louis Rossmann started a grassroots solidarity visibility campaign (tentatively named the Clippy Campaign), wherein participants changed their profile pictures on social…

In consumer technology, a cloud service typically refers to a data processing service provided by a service provider (often product manufacturer), often for a periodic fee, without control over or…

Coffee Meets Bagel is a dating and social-networking service based in the United States, founded in 2012 by three sisters.

Collective Shout is an Australian activist group founded in 2009 by its current director, Melinda Tankard Reist. It identifies itself as: "A grassroots movement challenging the objectification of…

The Consumer Technology Association (or CTA) is both a standards and trade organization. Their mission statement is "to help innovators of all sizes grow their business." They are active lobbyists…

Cox Communications, Inc. is an Atlanta-based American telecommunications company which provides internet, TV, home automation, and phone services. It operates in 18 states, providing service to…

CSS-based tracking and CSS fingerprinting consist of abusing the semantics of CSS, a styling language used to present virtually all web-pages, in order to trick web-browsers to send data to servers.

DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded on 17 July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng. It develops the DeepSeek large language model (LLM).

Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH is an Austrian company that develops the digital-rights management (DRM) and anti-tamper software Denuvo Anti-Tamper (DAT) and the anti-cheat system Denuvo Anti-Cheat…

DJI is a Chinese drone and camera manufacturer that requires mandatory app activation on its consumer products, locks cameras and gimbals into non-functional states after 5 activation skips, and…

Duolingo is a publicly owned, American language-learning website founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker. On July 28, 2021, the company began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. As…

Duracell Energy EV Charger is used to charge your electric vehicles at home. This requires installation of a charging point. To use the charger, you must install their phone app or use their provided…

Sensi Smart Thermostat (tested with st55u) can only be used with the app if you give your information such as location and phone, and enable internet to the product.

Platform decay, commonly known as Enshittification or crapification, is a practice in which companies (usually large ones) allow the quality of the products or services they provide to decline over…

Epic Games is a software development and media-publishing company founded in 1991 by Tim Sweeney. They are best known for the development of the Unreal Engine and the popular video game Fortnite…

Fake lifetime license is a marketing scam in which customers are misled and/or blatantly lied to, with respect to the expiration date of a license they acquired. This is distinct from post-purchase…

Counterfeit flash memory, such as USB flash drives, SD cards and solid-state drives (SSD), with falsified storage capacities are a prevalent problem on popular online marketplaces such as Amazon…

FiiO Electronics Technology Company, Ltd., or simply FiiO, is a Chinese electronics company founded in 2007 that primarily manufactures audio equipment. Its products include portable music players…

Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. It is officially available on Windows (10 and above), macOS and Linux.

Forced account registration/sign-in/log-in is a practice committed by entities, where users must have (and use) a digital identity to perform simple tasks that may have otherwise been possible…

Forced app download is a practice committed by businesses and government entities where users must download an app on their smartphones to perform simple tasks that may have otherwise been possible…

Forced cloud, forced internet, forced remote connection, etc... is a practice in which software or hardware requires a continuous/constant (or, at least, regular) device connection to remote servers…

Forced Identification is the practice of forcing the user to unnecessarily provide their ID in order to access a product or service. The primary concern for forced identification comes from how…

Forced retention of payment methods is when online platforms and payment processors store user payment credentials, often without a clear or easily accessible way to revoke them. In many cases, cards…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJAF3XFEXOg Ford is now charging people $495 for the option to add a frunk to the Ford Mustang Mach E 2026.[citation needed] ***Disclaimer: i have no idea if this…

FUTO , founded in 2021 by Eron Wolf (a software developer, and noteworthy investor in WhatsApp), is an organization that develops applications and sponsors FOSS (free and open source) software…

Future Motion Inc. is a self-balancing electric skateboard manufacturer founded in 2013 by Kyle Doerksen.

A game-of-telephone is a children's game that originates from China; where a starting message is passed through to multiple people. Then once the final message has been passed it's compared against…

Main article: Software as a service Games as a service (also known as live-service games) is a business model designed to monetize games after their initial sale or free download. It is typically…

On 31 May 2014, all multiplayer services hosted by GameSpy were shut down by Glu Mobile. A documented library of over 800 video games on platforms such as PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, and far…

GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) is an American company which sells video games, video-game accessories, gaming merchandise, and collectables. It was founded in 1984 by James McCurry and Gary M. Kusin as…

GE Appliances is an American home appliance manufacturer owned by the Chinese company Haier since 2016. It was founded in 1905 as part of General Electric.

General Motors (GM) has been collecting and monetizing driving data from millions of internet connected vehicles since 2015. Through its OnStar system and vehicle telematics, GM gathers comprehensive…

Main article: Artificial intelligence Generative AI, also referred to as GenAI or simply "AI" in colloquial English, is a program or service with the purpose of "generating" pieces of media (text…

GlassWire initially launched as a freeware network monitoring tool, gaining widespread recognition and user trust due to its free access and useful features. However, over time, its business model…