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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…

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.

On 21 March 2024, Activision Blizzard blocked access to Blizzard services, requiring customers to accept forced arbitration terms in the updated Blizzard end-user license agreement (EULA). In effect…

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…

AEG Powertools is a power tool brand manufactured by Techtronic Industries (TTI) under a trademark license from Electrolux. The brand is sold primarily in Australia, New Zealand, and Europe…

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.

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

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 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…

Gatekeeper is a security technology built into Apple's macOS operating system designed to ensure that only trusted software runs on a user's Mac computer. First introduced in Mac OS X Mountain Lion…

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…

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

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…

Better Way Electronics (BWE) is an Australian company founded in 2018 by Louie Tahiri, formerly known as Luan Muharrem Tahiraj. It is focused around technology repair, and its tech diagnostic…

Blink is a manufacturer of home security cameras owned by Amazon. The company was acquired from Immedia Semiconductor as a subsidiary in 2017.

Bloomberg is a software company with a news website that has recently changed its terms of service. The terms of service pops up in front of everything forcing you to agree to it without being able…

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.

Bose shipped the original QuietComfort Earbuds (2020) and Sport Earbuds with a restriction that binds each pair of earbuds to its factory-issued charging case. If the case is lost or broken, the…

Brave is a free and open source web browser based on Chromium. Privacy focused by design, it comes equipped with a dedicated ad-blocker that operates independently from the Chromium codebase and is…

Bumpgate (also known as Nvidiagate) was a scandal where Nvidia and ATI Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) made from 2005-2010 were prone to high failure rates because of a design flaw that caused…

Following the iOS 18 release on 16 September 2024, users of the iPhone 13-series of smart phones noticed the rear-facing-cameras of their devices were no longer functional. One user filed a Better…

Canon legacy scanner driver abandonment is Canon's practice of classifying functional scanners & multifunction printers as "retired" and stopping all driver development, which prevents the hardware…

Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT, also known as LSN and NAT444) is used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion by making thousands of customers share…

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…

COBB Tuning is an automotive engineering company based out of Austin, Texas that designs and engineers various aftermarket performance parts for motor vehicles.They were originally founded in 1999…

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…

Disney+ implemented a household device restriction system that creates massive inconvenience for legitimate, paying customers to access content on the Disney+ streaming service. The streaming service…

Domino's is an American Pizza Restaurant Chain company founded on 09 December 1960 by Jim Monagham, Tom Monaghan, and Dominick DeVarti. It operates over 21,000 restaurants across several countries…

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…

Elgato has removed the option to download or update plugins from their marketplace for their product, Stream Deck, without an Elgato account. Following this change, Stream Deck users must have an…

Elsagate refers to a type of incident where malicious content creators are left unrestrained to publish illicit content that is targeted towards minors. Residing among video platforms such as YouTube…

Basic Input/Output System, also known as BIOS, is a type of firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting…

Framework Computer, Inc. is an American personal computer manufacturer. It was founded in January 2020, by current CEO Nirav Patel.

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…

Google Mobile Services (GMS) is a suite of proprietary Android applications and APIs produced by Google that has existed since 2012. GMS provides both user-facing apps and developer-facing features…

Google Pixel is a consumer electronic device that Google develops and equips with specialized versions of Android or ChromeOS.

Happy Bar & Grill, a Bulgarian restaurant chain, faced public backlash surrounding the discovery of a vendor product page for an AI facial recognition system which had been developed by IP Biometrix…

Hisense H9G Smart TV was manufactured and sold by Hisense between 2020 and 2023. During that time, it was considered the company's flagship model, and still retails at $1,400 on Amazon as of February…

Humble Bundle, a digital storefront offering activation keys for video games, altered their terms of service on 24 December 2024 and retroactively enforced a three-year expiration period for keys…

Insta360 is a Chinese technology company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, with offices in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Berlin. Founded in 2015 by JK Liu, Insta360 specializes in designing and…

Instagram is a global social-media platform and subsidiary of Meta since 2012. Founded in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Instagram focuses on sharing photos and videos. This content can take…

When switching from iOS major version 8 to 9, iPhone 6 users, who chose to replace their fingerprint sensor with another one before the update, had their phones bricked.

Itch.io is a website used to find and share video games made by independent developers online.

Kernel-level anti-cheat (KLAC) is a subset of anti-cheat dedicated towards running above the user level. These types of anti-cheat, such as Easy Anticheat (EAC), have grown in popularity among large…

KingSong is a manufacturer of electric unicycles.

LG Corporation is a South Korean electronics and home-appliance chaebol (or mega corporation). They make microwave ovens, ovens, stoves, refrigerators, cell phones (until 2021), TVs, speakers, drives…

Lifetime licenses (also known as perpetual licenses, or one-time purchases) are granted for software that many consumers and businesses rely upon daily for the simple fact that it is more affordable…

On a fresh start of most PlayStation titles on PC, a pop-up appears asking the user to consent for data collection, with no way to reject.

Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is one of the "Big Five" tech giants, well known for licensing Q-DOS from Seattle Computer…

Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. The first version of Windows was released in 1985 as a GUI for MS-DOS. Later, in 1993…

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.

This stub will be used to document the significant issues with moderation in online marketplaces that impact consumers by exposing them to potential scams and harmful products.

Motorola was an American company founded in 1928 and sold mobile phones, tablets, public safety equipment, and many other electronic products. In 2011, the company was split into two independent…

Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. or MSI is a Taiwanese technology company that designs, develops and provides computer hardware, related products and services. It was founded 04 August, 1984.

Recent MSI motherboards have moved on from easily accessible clip-mount holders for their CMOS batteries. Instead hiding the battery behind the voltage regulator module (VRM) heatsink assembly, and…

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

Netflix, Inc. is a media streaming service and publisher, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph formerly for remote video rentals, it eventually became the pioneer of the video streaming…

The Nintendo Switch is a series of hybrid portable/home game consoles released by Nintendo since 2017 with the original Nintendo Switch. The most recent model in the series is the Nintendo Switch 2…

With the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo has already exercised rights it reserved back in early May 2025. Nintendo blocking online services on certain Switch 2 devices effectively bricks…

Founded in 2020, Nothing Technology Limited (stylised as NOTHING) is a British consumer electronics company headquartered in London. They manufacture consumer tech products such as smartphones…

Several users have reported a recurring issue with the Nothing Phone (1) where the Bluetooth functionality becomes inoperable. Affected devices are unable to activate Bluetooth, with the toggle…

Oneplus (Chinese: 一加) is a Chinese electronics manufacturer, spun off from Oppo in 2013 as a separate brand. OnePlus sells smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, earbuds, and other accessories around…

Payscore is a payment management platform founded initially as The Closing Docs by Sephen Arifin and Mark Fiebig in October 2017. Its advertised purpose is to verify the authenticity of renters.

Due to a likely defect in the 90nm graphic processing units (GPUs) of early PlayStation 3s, these models are extremely prone to GPU failures.[citation needed]

Pocket Casts is a podcast player for Android, iOS, and Web.

In early 2025, a consumer reported a catastrophic house fire allegedly caused by a Qidi Tech Plus 4 3D printer. The incident gained widespread attention after the user claimed their report was…

Quidd was a privately-held American collectible app founded in 2016 by Michael Bramlage and Erich Wood. According to their LinkedIn, the app had 19 employees, over 8 million users and represented 325…

The Red Shell Tracker is a tracker used in many popular games.

Redbox Automated Retail, LLC, was a company founded in 2002 by Gregg Kaplan which primarily focused on kiosks, often found in grocery stores or gas stations, where customers could rent DVDs or video…

Reddit is an American social media network for social-news aggregation, content rating, and forums. As of December 2024, Reddit is the eighth most-visited website in the world. It was founded in 2005…

Revolut removed support to users with custom OS on their device

Ring is a manufacturer of home security and smart home devices owned by Amazon, who acquired Ring in 2018. Ring's products include their flagship Video Doorbell devices, as well as a number of…

Roblox is an online platform which lets users create their own games, as well as all sorts of virtual items for their personal avatars. The platform is owned by the Roblox Corporation. Users create…

No online platform is immune to child predators, especially those geared towards minor audiences. However, Roblox has an extensive history of poorly handling child predators. Since Roblox launched in…

Roborock is a prominent Chinese manufacturer of robotic vacuum cleaners founded by Richard Chang in July 2014 that offers users an app to control and monitor their devices.

Main article: Security Security through obscurity is a practice where companies obfuscate or hide the logic behind their product to supposedly enhance their security. It also includes practices like…