Pro-consumer articles

Bandcamp is an American online music platform founded in 2008 that lets musicians upload, sell, and share their music directly with fans, and allows listeners to discover and support independent…

Brax Technologies is a New York–based company founded in 2024 that designs privacy-focused smartphones and tablets. Their products emphasize user control, open-source compatibility, and minimizing…

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…

The Consumer Defense Code (CDC) of Brazil, english for "Código de Defesa do Consumidor", enacted by former president Fernando Collor, on September 11, 1990 as Federal Law No. 8.078, establishes…

F-Droid is a free and open-source app store and software repository for Android, serving a similar function to the Google Play Store. The main repository, hosted by the project, contains only free…

FossifyOrg develops and maintains a suite of privacy-respecting applications, which were originally forked from Simple Mobile Tools. The applications are available via F-Droid and the Google Play…

The Free Software Movement is a movement that aims to create and distribute software that is free in all sense of the word, not just monetarily. The movement was formally initiated by Richard…

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…

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the European Union's comprehensive data privacy and security law that went into effect on May 25, 2018. The regulation applies to any organization…

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

GrapheneOS, abbreviated as GOS formerly known as CopperheadOS, is an open-source, security-focused, privacy-preserving, and Android-based operating system. As of March 2026, GOS only supports…

The Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act (The Act) is a landmark U.S. federal law (15 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq.) enacted on January 4, 1975, to govern consumer product warranties. Sponsored by Senator Warren G…

Mullvad VPN AB is a Swedish based company created in 2009 by Fredrik Strömberg and Daniel Berntsson. The company is a subsidiary of Amagicom AB, 100% owned by Strömberg and Berntsson. Mullvad…

NOYB – European Center for Digital Rights (styled as noyb, from "none of your business")is a non-profit organization based in Vienna, Austria, established in 2017 with a pan-European focus…

The Personal Data Protection Law, also known as "Ley de Protección de Datos Personales" in Spanish or Law N° 21,719) is a Chilean law created to increase protections for user's data. It is based on…

SteamOS is a Valve developed operating system made specifically with gaming in mind as it comes with Steam preinstalled. It can be found on Valve's first-party hardware, which includes the Steam…

Stop Killing Games (SKG) is a campaign intended to spread awareness regarding publishers revoking licenses for consumers and removing game functionality so that they are no longer in a playable…