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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…

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…

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…

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

Anker has recalled over 1.68 million portable power banks across four U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls between 2023 and 2025 for fire and explosion hazards, after 90 documented…

Anthropic Claude Code HERMES.md billing flaw was a technical defect in Anthropic's Claude Code product that bypassed flat-rate subscription plans to charge users direct API fees. In April 2026, a…

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 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…

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…

Applebee's Restaurants LLC is an American company that's operates and owns restaurant chain Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar. It became an subsidiary to Dine Brands after a $2.1 billion…

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, 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…

Ars Technica published an article on a programmer who was being "bullied" by an AI autonomous agent. The article was written using AI, with non-existant quotations. The article was later removed and…

This page is dedicated towards providing a communal list for users to submit potential articles to feature on the wiki, and to give editors inspiration on what pages they might want to add to the…

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

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…

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…

Bambu Lab is a Chinese technology company that designs and manufactures 3D printers. The company is based in Shenzhen, China, with locations in Shanghai and Austin, Texas. It was founded in 2020 by a…

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…

On November 6, 2019, Best Buy discontinued support for its Insignia Connect app. This resulted in major functionality losses for affected Insignia products that used the service.

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…

BMW charges a subscription or one-time fee to activate the High Beam Assistant (HBA) on vehicles that already contain the required hardware at the time of purchase. The feature automatically dips…

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…

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

Home Connect is Bosch's cloud based smart home control system used in select The Bosch 500 series is a range of dishwashers sold as premium smart appliances, focusing on their convenience and ease…

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…

Buffalo Wild Wings was founded in 1982 and is a American causal dining and sports bar restaurant specializing in alcoholic beverages and chicken wings. The company has been involved in various…

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…

Founded in 1990 by Alex Seropian, Bungie is a game development studio that has been known to develop games for their popular franchises, such as Marathon, Destiny, and initially Halo. Originally, the…

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…

On May 24, 2019, Canva identified their systems were attacked and posted an announcement about the breach, urging users to change their passwords. 139 million users were affected, and information…

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…

Carly is a manufacturer of ODB2 tools and software for automotive diagnostics.

Founded in 2006, Cava Group, Inc., also referred as Cava Grill, is a American Mediterranean fast casual restaurant.

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…

Founded in 1946, Chick-fil-A, Inc. is an American fast food chain that specializes chicken related products like chicken sandwiches or chicken tenders. The company sponsors organizations like the…

Chromium is a free and open-source web browser developed by and primarily maintained by Google. Several major web browsers use Chromium as the base of their software, including Google Chrome…

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…

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…

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…

Creality is a Chinese technology company headquartered in Shenzhen which manufactures 3D printers and 3D scanners

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.

International Dairy Queen, Inc., also referred as Dairy Queen, was founded in 6 June 1940 and is a American fast food restaurant chain. It is a subsidiary to Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Datacolor are making older monitor calibrators obsolete because their activation servers use TL v1.2 which has security issues. There is a popup that explains the situation when you click 'Why are…

Dell, formally Dell Technologies, is a technology company focused on computers and computer infrastructure. They market themselves as "the world’s most essential technology infrastructure company for…

Denny's is an American table service restaurant chain spanning across 1500 locations worldwide. It is the owner of The Burger Den and The Meltdown. On January, Denny's became a private subsidiary to…

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…

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…

Ikawa Coffee Home Roasters, including models like the Home Roaster 100, require the use of their mobile app to set roast profiles, fine tune setting, share recipes, and operate the device via…

Discord is a proprietary VoIP and instant-messaging platform developed by Discord Inc. (formerly Hammer & Chisel, Inc.), co-founded by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy. Launched in 2015, the…

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…

Dynamic pricing is an umbrella term, which refers to a pricing strategy of modifying the price of a product or service according to market demands and/or consumer-identifying information. This…

Dyson Limited is a manufacturer of home appliances, most notably vacuum cleaners. The company has been involved in several incidents related to the aftermarket repair of its products.

Electronics leasing is an emerging business model in which consumer electronics such as phones or games consoles are leased to consumers for extended periods, rather than sold either by direct…

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…

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…

First Press Games is a limited physical game production company that (almost) never sends out anything they claim to be selling even after 3-6 years of waiting for them to produce it.

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…

Flock License Plate Readers (previously known as Flock Safety Falcon), are a network of AI-powered surveillance cameras that record vehicle data for law enforcement agencies. The system operates in…

Flock Safety is a technology company that creates and operates an extensive surveillance network using automated license plate readers (ALPRs) and related technologies. Flock was founded in 2017 by…

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.

The Federal Trade Commission took action against Intuit Inc., the maker of the popular TurboTax tax filing software, by issuing an administrative complaint against the company for deceiving consumers…

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…

GeForce Now is a cloud gaming service operated by Nvidia that has retroactively imposed a 100-hour monthly playtime cap on subscribers who originally paid for unlimited access. The service lets users…

General Motors (OnStar) is a multinational automotive manufacturing company and its subsidiary, OnStar, which provides in-vehicle security, emergency, and navigation services. This article assesses…

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…

GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital provider of DRM-free video games.

GoIt is an Ukrainian-based online company providing international IT-related educational courses. Some of its courses come with an "employment warranty" (and are advertised as such). This warranty…

Google LLC, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, is one of the most influential technology companies in the world. Originally developed as a search engine to organize and index the growing…

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