Project cargo-complete
concept for this project is making sure that all cargo tables which are present on the wiki have all the appropriate metadata in them
use cargo query to make the table, which people can browse and sort to look for incomplete things they can go and fill in.
| Page | Company | Start Date | End Date | Status | Product | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 WhatsApp privacy policy updates | Facebook • WhatsApp | 2021-02-08 | Active | Privacy | WhatsApp updated its privacy policy, key changes are: Clarifying how WhatsApp processes user data. Detailing how WhatsApp works with businesses. | ||
| Acer settles online breach probe for $115k | |||||||
| Activision Blizzard account lock and forced arbitration | Activision Blizzard | 2024-03-21 | Active | Battle.net | EULA • Terms of Service | A Battle.net update required users to accept forced arbitration terms or lose access to their account and game library. | |
| Activision discontinues Blur video game | Activision Blizzard | 2011 | Active | Blur | Service Termination | The game Blur cannot be legitimately purchased for no apparent reason. | |
| ADDW car systems legislated in the EU | European Union | 2026-07-07 | yet to start | Privacy Concern | EU passed legislation that mandates installation of cameras monitoring driver behaviour in its plan to reduce road accidents, it is supposed to warn drivers if distracted, while it is stated that this data should be contained within a loop, it is limited to EU's ability of its enforcement | ||
| Adobe Digital Editions' ebook DRM | Adobe | Adobe eBook Platform | Ownership • False Advertising | Adobe limits downloads of bought books through their apps despite unlimited downloads advertised | |||
| Adobe sued by FTC over hidden fees in subscription plans | Adobe | 2024-06-17 | Pending Resolution | Adobe Creative Cloud | Difficult to Cancel • Fees • Subscription | The FTC is suing Adobe over deceptive practices regarding its subscription services. | |
| Adobe ToS update gives the company rights over consumers' works | Adobe | 2024 | Active | Ownership • Terms of Service | Adobe inserted a clause in their terms of service to claim ownership over user's creative works. | ||
| AEG Power Tools 58V Product Line Discontinuation | AEG Powertools | 2024 | Unresolved | Planned Obsolescence | AEG Powertools sold tools while phasing out their compatible battery line. | ||
| Airtel Axis Credit Card Devaluation | Axis Bank | 2026-03-10 | Active | Airtel Axis credit card | |||
| Airthings ASA app release | Airthings | 2024-05-21 | Unresolved | Forced Migration | |||
| AlienRides LLC tries and bans all importation of Electric Unicycles using patent law unless licensing fee is paid. | AlienRides | 2025-01-21 | Active | Anti-competitive Behavior • Monopoly | AlienRides is weaponizing patent law to block electric unicycle imports from entering the United States. | ||
| Amazon allows fraudulent product page after manual review | Amazon | Amazon | False Advertising | ||||
| Amazon alters the content of purchased ebooks | Amazon | 2023 | Active | Amazon Kindle | Digital restrictions | Amazon allows publishers to retroactively make editorial changes to already purchased ebooks in users' Kindle library without their knowledge | |
| Amazon Echo changes terms of voice usage | Amazon | March 2025 | Privacy | Amazon removed an opt out option from amazon echo client device series for the amazon alexa, citing the need to collect data for generative AI training | |||
| Amazon locks home owner out of Amazon account over allegation by Amazon delivery driver | Amazon | 2023-05-25 | 2023-05-31 | Resolved | Amazon | Digital Restrictions | After an amazon worker severely misunderstood an automated Eufy doorbell message, Amazon proceeded to lock the homeowner out of their account for 6 days. |
| Amazon PhotosPlus discontinuation | Amazon | 2023 | Active | Amazon Echo Show | Advertising • Cloud Lockout • Service Termination • Planned Obsolescence | Amazon canceled their cloud service for showing photos across devices despite launching a product based on this service a year prior. | |
| Amazon revokes access to their Appstore on non-Amazon devices | Amazon | August 2025 | Active | Amazon App Store | Ownership • Digital restrictions • Forced Migration • Service Termination | Amazon revoked access to the Amazon App Store on all non-Amazon Android devices. Users must now use Amazon hardware to download their paid content. | |
| Amazon sued for enrolling and charging customers into Audible without consent | Amazon • Audible | 2024 | 2025 | Active | Amazon Prime | Service Termination | Audible enrolled Amazon customers in Audible memberships without their knowledge or consent |
| Amazon to charge non-Prime consumers to use Alexa | Amazon | March 2025 | Active | Alexa | |||
| Android Data Collection | Unresolved | Android • Google Pixel | Privacy | Google and Android phones alike deliberately collect user information, even when they choose to opt-out. | |||
| Android Developer Verification | 2025-08-25 | Active | Android | Anticompetitive Behavior • Digital restrictions • Privacy | A planned restriction that forces developers to submit their identity to Google and pay a fee for their apps to be installable onto Android devices. | ||
| Anker Battery Bank Recall | Anker | 2025-06-12 | Defective • Poor Quality • Safety | ||||
| Anthem server shutdown | Electronic Arts • BioWare | 2025-07-03 | Active | Anthem (game) | Service Termination | EA plans to shut down Anthem's always-online servers on January 12, 2026, rendering the game completely unplayable for all owners. | |
| Apple introduces OS-level age verification | Apple | 2026-02-25 | Active | IOS • IPhone | Surveillance • Privacy • Anti-consumer Behavior | Apple introduces mandatory age verification on iOS on Beta 26.4 | |
| Apple removes apps aiding protests | Apple | 2019 | Active | Apple App Store | Censorship | Apple has removed various apps that aid protestors due to various goverments' threats | |
| Apple's anti-repair and anti-refurbishment practices | Apple | Active, Pending Resolution, Resolved | Repairability • Ownership • Digital Restrictions • Planned Obsolescence • Service Termination | Apple's behaviors have contributed to the company's hardware being converted to e-waste, such as with removing legacy-supported software. | |||
| Apple's planned obsolescence incidents | Apple | Active | Planned Obsolescence | ||||
| Apps deliberately refusing to work on modded devices | Digital Restrictions | Many apps on any kind of device can deliberately refuse to work if the device has been suspected to be modified. | |||||
| Arity's alleged unauthorized driver data collection through mobile apps | Allstate • Arity | Active | Privacy | Arity collects data around every 15 seconds with no easy opt-out for the users. | |||
| Ars Technica fake AI article on AI accusations | Ars Tecnica | 2026-02-13 | 2026-02-16 | Resolved | Article | Misinformation | Ars Tecnica published a poorly AI written article, on a guy being bullied by an AI Agent. Later they pulled the article and clarified the situation. |
| ASUS charges for previously free service | ASUS | May 2023 | Active | Digital Restrictions • False Advertising • Firmware Lockout | On May 2023, without giving a notice to the users, ASUS removed the ability for owners of the Zenfone and ROG Android phones to access the bootloader tools. As a follow-up, in Early 2024, ASUS began charging 185 euros for bootloader unlocking. | ||
| Asus voids warranty of devices sent for repair over minor damages and performs unrelated repairs | ASUS | 2024-04-19 | 2024-05-01 | Resolved | Broken promise • Terms of Service | ASUS voids warranty and does not fix devices with minor damages and attempts to get away with it by calling it "Customer Induced Damage" and by performing unrequested and unrelated repairs. | |
| Audi Basic HVAC "Sync" Function Paywalled | Audi | April 2022 | Active | Audi Q4 E-Tron | Digital Restrictions • Firmware Lockout • Ownership | Audi charges $758 for an HVAC “Sync” button, which is physically present within the vehicle, but disabled until a payment is made. | |
| Audible class action lawsuit | Amazon | 2025-08-28 | Pending Resolution | Audible | Digital Ownership • Licensing Controversy | Audible allegedly misleads consumers into thinking they own the audiobooks they purchase. | |
| Audible subsidizes its streaming plan via premium credits | Amazon | Audible | |||||
| Autodesk Fusion EOL on Intel based MacOS systems running OpenCore legacy | Autodesk | ||||||
| AWS Lightsail Won't Cancel | Amazon | AWS Lightsail | |||||
| Bambu Lab Authorization Control System | Bambu Lab | 2025-01-16 | Active | Post-purchase terms change | On January 16, 2025,Bambu Lab announced that future firmwares for their 3D printers would have an authorization and authentication mechanism. | ||
| Bandai Namco EULA | Bandai Namco | EULA | |||||
| Bandicam perpetual license invalidation | Bandicam | 2025 | Bandicam • Bandicut | ||||
| Battery Health Assistance | Planned Obsolescence | ||||||
| Best Buy discontinuation of Insignia Connect | Best Buy | 2019-11-06 | Insignia Connect | ||||
| Bitly QR Code Preview Page Advertising | Bitly | February 2025 | Active | QR-Code-Generator.com • Bitly links | Terms of Service | Bitly has introduced "preview pages" for QR Codes and Bitly links, which may contain advertising, before directing users to the destination link. | |
| Bitly QRCodeGenerator.com QR code lockout | Bitly | 2025-07-30 | Active | Qr-code-generator.com | Terms of Service | Bitly’s QR-Code-Generator.com markets “free” QR codes that later break unless users pay, causing losses for printed materials. | |
| Bloomberg DMCA strikes GamersNexus video | Bloomberg | 2025-08-20 | DMCA Abuse | ||||
| Blu-Ray Ultra-HD DRM | |||||||
| BlueCruise hands-free driving | Ford | 2021 | Active | Ford BlueCruise was launched in 2021. | |||
| BlueDriver OBD2 scanner now requires account login and collects data | BlueDriver • Repairify • Root Four Imagination • Lemur Vehicle Monitors | 2025-04-25 | 2025-10-14 | Resolved | BlueDriver OBDII Scan Tool | Cloud lockout • Forced Migration • Privacy | iOS and Android apps required login for any functionality |
| BMW API restrictions | BMW | 2025-08-30 | Active | Vehicles • Cars • Automobiles | Digital restrictions | BMW destroys home assistant integration for customers of BMW's online services subscriptions | |
| BMW feature lockout scandal | BMW | Active | Hardware Lockout • Ownership • Subscription | BMW is charging for activation of hardware features built into their vehicles. | |||
| BMW Proprietary Screws | BMW | 2026-02-05 | Active | Anti-consumer Behavior • Repairability | BMW has developed proprietary screws and is currently in the process of patenting these screws for its vehicles. | ||
| BMW's heated seat subscription | BMW | July 2022 | Rent-seeking | ||||
| BMW's high beam assistant (HBA) | BMW | Rent-Seeking | |||||
| Booking.com Post-Payment Terms Disclosure | Booking.com | 2025 | 2026 | Active | Accommodation Reservation | Contract Transparency • Material Omission | Reservation payment processed without disclosing host-required material terms; refund denied under platform cancellation policy. |
| Bosch Cloud Dishwasher Incident | Bosch | Cloud | |||||
| Bose QuietComfort Sleepbuds doesn't allow purchasing new case | Bose | QuietComfort Sleepbuds | |||||
| Bose SoundTouch end of life treatment | Bose | 2025-10-09 | 2026-01-07 | Resolved | Bose SoundTouch | Cloud Lockout • Service Termination • Planned Obsolesence • Abandonware | Bose announces end of cloud support for SoundTouch products, but releases API documentation and promises to leave non-cloud features intact. |
| Brave puts affiliated links in the address bar | Brave Software | 2020-06-06 | 2020-06-08 | Resolved | Brave browser | False Advertising • Privacy | Brave silently injected affiliate referral codes into address bar URL suggestions without user consent |
| Broadband choice reduction by Brendan Carr's FCC | |||||||
| Brother DCP-L3550CDW aftermarket toner failure | Brother Industries Ltd. | 2018 | Active | DCP-L3550CDW and MFC-L3770CDW printers • TN-760 cartridges | Anticompetitive Behavior • Planned Obsolescence • Third Party | Brother toner cartridges contain chips for authentication. Firmware updates have actively suppressed aftermarket toner. | |
| Brother printers causing issues with third party inks | Brother Industries Ltd. | Third-party | |||||
| Bumpgate | AMD • Nvidia | 2006 | 2010 | Resolved | Poor Quality | ||
| Cambridge Analytica Scandal | Cambridge Analytica • Meta | 2018 | 2019 | Resolved | Advertising • Privacy | The personal data of Facebook users was misused for targeted political advertising. | |
| Cameras bricked on iPhone 13 series after iOS update | Apple | 2024-09-16 | Bricking • Poor Quality | ||||
| Canadian bread price fixing | Canada Bread • Weston Foods • Walmart Canada • Giant Tiger • Sobeys • Metro | 2001 | 2015 | Resolved | Bread • Bagels • Naan | Price Fixing | From 2001 to 2015, many companies colluded in what can be described as a cartel, fixing bread prices in Canada |
| Canon ink DRM | Canon | DRM • Third-party | |||||
| Canva Affinity Studio adds arbitration clause | Canva | ||||||
| Cerberus Phone Security Login with ad blocker no longer possible | Cerberus | Advertising • Privacy | |||||
| CF Moto puts previously included features behind paywall | CFMoto | 2025-08-15 | Active | CFMOTO Ride | Cloud lockout | CFMoto moved to a subscription model for their CFMOTO Ride app, charging users for features they previously received with their purchase | |
| Chamberlain removes API access from new and existing garage door openers | Chamberlain Group | November 2023 | March 2024 | Active | Cloud • Privacy • Ownership | Chamberlain Group removed third party API access to new and existing garage door openers (forcing cloud connection and data collection). | |
| Chat Control | Active | Surveillance • Privacy | |||||
| ChatGPT-4o | OpenAI | 2024-05-13 | Active | ChatGPT | Artificial Intelligence • Paywall • Health Risk to Users | ChatGPT-4o is a language model of OpenAI known by several incidents that include user harm, product deprecation and false claims from OpenAI | |
| Chrome OS ends support for school Chromebooks | Lenovo • Google | 2019-02-27 | 2026-01-01 | Pending Resolution | Laptop | Service Termination | The end of millions of Chromebooks as Chrome OS support is discontinued, impacting schools and students worldwide. |
| Cisco Removing access to critical downloads for products that are end-of-support | Cisco Systems • Inc. | Active | Ownership • Right to Repair | Cisco removes all downloads for products that are past their end-of-support date, which leaves no official way to acquire updates. | |||
| Click Adventure Scam Game: Draining Consumer Wallets and Bypassing Steam Security | Valve | 2025-08-06 | 2025-09-15 | Resolved | Steam | Scam • Security | The Steam game 'Click Adventure' compromised users' accounts and executed unauthorized Steam Marketplace transactions. |
| Clip Studio Paint changes perpetual license to subscription model | Celsys | Clip Studio Paint | Broken Promise • Subscription | ||||
| Commercial weather apps lose summary proceedings | |||||||
| Commonwealth Bank collection of Biometric Data | Commonwealth Bank | 2024 | |||||
| ConnectedLife SmartDry discontinuation | ConnectedLife | 2022-06-17 | SmartDry | ||||
| Costco's collection and sharing of data through Meta's tracking pixel | Costco | 2023-10-06 | Pending Resolution | Costco pharmacy website | HIPAA Privacy • Privacy | Costco's pharmacy website allegedly shared patients' private information with Meta and other unauthorized third parties via tracking tools such as Meta Pixel. | |
| Covert web-to-app tracking by Meta and Yandex | Meta • Yandex | February 2017 | January 2025 | Resolved | Facebook • Instagram • Yandex Maps • Yandex Browser | Privacy • Surveillance • Unprompted Risk to Users | Meta & Yandex apps on Android track users by listening on localhost ports, linking web activity to app identities, bypassing privacy measures. |
| Crave app refuses televisions based on production date | Samsung • HBO • Crave | 2025-09-15 | Active | Crave | Digital restrictions | SAMSUNG TV's manufactured before 2018 will need to upgrade their samsung TV model if they want to continue accessing the crave APP. | |
| Creality forces update that removes features from their 3D scanners | Creality | 2025-08-07 | Active | Otter • Raptor • Ferret* | Firmware lockout | Creality's forced update mandate and removing a big feature of their scanners that allows the use of Mobile APP is now locked behind proprietary hardware. | |
| Creative Fabrica licensing risks and ownership verification concerns | Creative Fabrica | January 2025 | Active | All Access Subscription | Terms of Service | Community reports raised concerns that Creative Fabrica users risk infringement claims from assets uploaded by non-owners, though no confirmed lawsuits exist. | |
| CursorAI adds rate limits to unlimited plans | Anysphere | June 2025 | CursorAI | Artificial Intelligence • Rent-seeking | |||
| Datacolor "sunsetting" older Spyder monitor calibrators | Datacolor | 2026-07-19 | Active | Spyder2 • Spyder3 • Spyder4 • Spyder5 | Planned Obsolescence | Older Spyder devices will not be receiving software updates. Older Spyder software will no longer support new installations or activations. | |
| DCS sues small YouTuber for accurate product review showing battery issues & misleading warranty | Deep Cycle Systems | May 2024 | Deep cycle lithium batteries | Speech | Deep Cycle Systems pursued legal action against a small YouTuber for negative product reviews, causing the reviews to be temporarily removed, and lying about changing warranty terms. | ||
| Dead star server shutdown | Armature Studio | 2016-11-01 | Pending Resolution | Dead Star | Service Termination | Armature Studios shut down its servers for Dead Star 7 months after launch. | |
| Delisting and shut down of Age of Empires 3 | Microsoft • Microsoft Game Studios | 2024-10-30 | Active | Age of Empires 3 | Planned Obsolescence | ||
| Derrimut Gym revokes 24/7 access after running sale promoting 24/7 access gym | Derrimut Gym | 2025 | |||||
| Dictionary.com shuts down premium app after selling lifetime subscriptions | Dictionary.com | 2025-06-18 | 2025 | Active | Dictionary app | lifetime subscription revoked | Premium ad free app with lifetime subscription shut down while leaving up an ad supported version |
| Discord / 5CA Data Breach | 5CA • Discord | 2025-10-03 | Discord | Data • ID • Privacy | |||
| Discord's Mandatory Age Verification | Discord | 2026-02-09 | Active | Privacy • Privacy Concern | Discord's Feb 2026 teen-by-default policy: restricted by default. Forced Face/ID verification sparks privacy & consumer rights concerns after 2025 breach. | ||
| Disney requires an active subscription to delete a Disney+ account | Disney | Disney+ | Data • Privacy • Right to Vanish | ||||
| Disney+ Ad Policy Change | Disney | 2025 | Active | Disney+ | Advertising • False Advertising • Subscription • Terms of Service | Disney introduced ads to paid tiers of Disney+, changing the terms of the deal. | |
| DIW7022 mandatory wireless operation | KPN | January 2024 | Active | Accessibility • Health • Privacy | DIW7022 TV box requires mandatory Wi-Fi/Bluetooth operation; no wired/IR-only alternative available | ||
| DJI Robot Vacuum Hack | DJI | 2026-02-22 | 2026-02-22 | Resolved | DJI Romo | DJI vacuum cleaners get accidentally hacked by guy using Claude Code. | |
| Dyson battery lifespan reduced by design and difficult to repair | Dyson | Unresolved | V6 • V7 • V10 • V11 | Ownership • Repairability • Third-party | Dyson battery packs do not work as intended. Third party solutions are prevented from charging through Dyson's Battery Management System. | ||
| Dyson covers circuit board in glue | Dyson | 2022 | Active | Repairability • Planned Obsolescence | |||
| Dyson ends relationship with third-party repair centers | Dyson | 2023 | Active | Repairability • Third-party | |||
| Dyson V10/V11 trigger design | Dyson | V10 • V11 | Poor Quality • Right to Repair | ||||
| EA moves to in-house kernel-level anti-cheat on PC after purchase | Electronic Arts | 2023 | EA SPORTS WRC • Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 | Anti-cheat • Forced Migration • Privacy | |||
| EA releases source code of classic command and conquer titles | Electronic Arts | 2025 | Resolved | Open Source | |||
| EA requires Battlefield 6 players to change motherboard settings | EA | 2025-08-01 | Active | Battlefield 6 | Forced Migration | The Battlefield 6 beta requires Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and GPT formatted storage for its proprietary anti-cheat. | |
| EBay opts-in users for AI training | Ebay | 2025-04-21 | Ebay | Data • Privacy | |||
| Echelon fitness firmware lockout | Echelon Fitness | July 2025 | Active | Exercise equipment | Firmware lockout | Echelon pushed firmware updates blocking third-party apps, requiring server authentication & breaking QZ compatibility for users | |
| EINSTAR VEGA hidden activation requirement before file transfer is enabled | Shining 3D | 2024-12-02 | Active | EINSTAR VEGA handheld 3D scanner | Repairability • Ownership Restriction | Mandatory online activation blocks local file transfer functionality, undisclosed in marketing materials. | |
| Elgato forces Stream Deck users to sign up | Elgato | 2023-10-24 | Stream Deck | Cloud | |||
| Elsagate | YouTube • TikTok | 2016 | YouTube • TikTok | Safety | |||
| Epic Games forces third party account creation in Rocket League | Epic Games | 2025-01-29 | Rocket League | Forced Migration | |||
| Epson printer waste ink counter restrictions | Epson | ||||||
| EU enforcement actions against Shein for consumer rights violations | Shein | ||||||
| Europe-based news sites enact consent-or-pay for data tracking | The Mirror • The Independent • Mail Online • Express • Daily Mirror • The Sun • Reach | 2025 | Active | Privacy • Rent-seeking | News sites in the UK restrict users from opting out of cookies without paying, directly putting a price on data privacy. | ||
| European Consumer Centre on the Lack of Quality Standards for Exalted Skins | Riot Games • Tencent | 2025-07-25 | Pending Resolution | Spirit Blossom Morgana Exalted Skin | Knowingly selling defective product | Riot Games sold a €250 “Exalted” skin missing key features, despite prior feedback, leading to legal complaints over deceptive digital goods. | |
| Excessive data collection by cars | Suzuki • Hyundai | Active | Car | Terms of Service • Privacy | Car is forcing you to agree to spying on you by locking you out of some features. | ||
| Exit of Crucial from consumer business | Micron | 2025-12-03 | Active | DRAM • SSDs | Micron announces the exit of Crucial from consumer business to focus in AI and datacenters | ||
| F1TV concurrent streams limit | F1TV | 2025 | F1TV Pro | ||||
| Facebook account recovery requires mobile phone verification with limited non-SMS alternatives | Meta Platforms | 2020 | Active | Accessibility • Security • Privacy | Facebook account recovery requires mobile phone verification with limited non-SMS alternatives | ||
| Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update | Fairphone • Cordon Group | 2023 | Active | Fairphone 5 | Repairability | Android 15 update reportedly bricked some Fairphone 5 devices with faulty fingerprint sensors; restricted parts sales and EDL access limited self-repair options. | |
| Fake memory still being sold on eBay and Amazon | Amazon • Ebay | False Advertising | Counterfeit flash memory, such as USB flash drives, SD Cards and Solid State Drives,are a prevalent problem on popular online marketplaces. | ||||
| Figma threatens companies using "Dev Mode" | Figma | Copyright Troll | |||||
| Filmora lifetime licenses terminated | Wondershare | ||||||
| Final Draft software activation | Final Draft | 2025-01-15 | Unresolved | Final Draft 10 | Forced Migration • Forced Obsolescence • Ownership | Owners of Final Draft 10 are unable to use their lifetime license as activation servers have been shutdown, with the alternative being a paid migration to Final Draft 13. | |
| Firefox introduces TOS | Mozilla | 2025-02-26 | 2025-06-10 | Resolved | Firefox | Advertising • Privacy • Terms of Service | Mozilla introduced a vague terms of service, arousing concerns over the privacy of data and the use of data in advertising. |
| Fisher price smart app | Fisher-Price | August 2025 | Pending Resolution | Smart Connect enabled toys | Service Termination | Certain app-controlled toys are no longer controllable due to cloud service shutdown. | |
| Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 Battery Performance Program | Fitbit • Google | 2025 | Active | Sense • Versa 3 | Forced Migration | ||
| Flock Safety Nova uses dark web data for surveillance | Flock Safety | Pending Resolution | Surveillance | Flock Safety has a program called Nova that uses info from data breaches to strengthen their surveillance | |||
| Ford ad patent | Ford | 2023-02-23 | Advertising | ||||
| Ford Connected Built-In Navigation trial and removal of service | Ford | 2026 | 2026 | Active | Ford | Connected Built-In Navigation. Trial only without being informed. Removal of service unless agree to pay subscription. | |
| Ford repossession patent | Ford | 2023-02-23 | Ownership • Security | ||||
| FreePhoneLine revokes Lifetime VoIP service for monthly subscription model | FreePhoneLine | 2024 | Broken Promise • Rent-seeking | ||||
| Frontier Airlines obfuscates web check-in form | Frontier Airlines | ||||||
| Funimation "Forever" Content License Revocation | Funimation • Sony | 2024-04-02 | Unresolved | Funimation | |||
| Futurehome Smarthub mandatory subscription fee | Futurehome | 2025 | Company went bankrupt & then started charging $117/year for services previously free, not advertised as a possibility at time of sale | ||||
| Gaia GPS adds "feature" that opts all users into social media profile and location/activity sharing | Outside | August 2024 | Gaia GPS | Data • Privacy | |||
| GameSpy server shutdown | GameSpy • Glu Mobile | 2014-05-31 | Planned Obsolescence | ||||
| GameStop Short Squeeze | Citadel Securities • Robinhood Financial | 2021 | |||||
| General Motors data collection and sharing controversy | General Motors | ||||||
| Gigantti pressured additional subscriptions | Gigantti | Subscription | |||||
| Glasswire | GlassWire | Broken Promise • Subscription | |||||
| GoIt changing its warranty conditions post-sale | GoIt | 2023 | Broken Promise • Warranty | ||||
| Good2Go Mobile (Canada) phases out 3G network, Merges with LuckyMobile | Good2Go Mobile • LuckyMobile | 2025-07-25 | 2025-07-31 | Active | Cellphone Network | Good2Go Mobile is a cellphone network company who prides itself on selling no contract prepaid sim cards. Calls will only cost per minute plus the 911 fees. | |
| Goodlife now require App to access gyms | Goodlife Health Clubs - Australia | July 2025 | Pending Resolution | Goodlife App | Forced Migration | Goodlife has recently forced its members to use the Goodlife App to access its Gyms, and made the existing RF issued cards stop working. | |
| Google Android restrict app sideloading | 2025-08-25 | Active | Privacy • Third-party | Google is planning to block Android app installation from sources not vetted by Google in 2026. | |||
| Google asserts the right to seize phones during repairs | |||||||
| Google Chrome automatically disables uBlock Origin | 2025-03-04 | Active | Google Chrome | Advertising • Privacy | |||
| Google forces your device to join their "Find Hub" network, hard to opt out | 2025-06-09 | Active | Android | Privacy • Surveillance | Google added some Android devices to their "Find Hub" network without consent, only informing via email. | ||
| Google LSA terms of service change | June 2025 | Advertising • Surveillance | |||||
| Google Nest Protect forced to use Google app | Google • Nest | 2025-03-28 | Active | Nest Protect Smoke + Carbon Monoxide Alarm (all generations) | Forced Migration | Google forcing Nest Protect users to migrate from Nest app to Google Home app with expanded data collection terms to maintain functionality. | |
| Google Nest thermostat smart features disabled | Google • Nest | 2025-10-25 | Active | 1st generation 2011 • 2nd generation 2012 • 2nd generation Europe version 2014 | Abandonware • Service Termination | Google is ending support for 1st/2nd generation Nest thermostats October 2025, removing app control and safety features despite working hardware. | |
| Google password manager overrides third-party autofill | Google Chrome | Anti-competitive • Security | Users of the [[Google Chrome]] Android app have reported that [[Google|Google's]] password manager has blocked alternate password managers to be used on Chrome. | ||||
| Google Pixel 6a Battery Performance Program | 2025-07-02 | Active | Pixel 6a | Forced Migration | |||
| Google Pixel 9 Pro camera bar separates from phone body | 2024 | 2025 | Active | Google Pixel 9 Pro | Knowingly selling defective product | Camera bar on Google Pixel 9 Pro devices is prone to separating from the body. Google would not replace device. A case is suggested. | |
| Google Pixel Buds "Touch and Hold" discontinuation | 2024 | Active, Pending Resolution, Resolved, Unresolved | Pixel Buds | Accessibility | With an update, Google removed an accessibility feature from the Pixel Buds. | ||
| Google Pixel Watches do not come with repair options | |||||||
| Google Play Integrity API | 2025 | Android • Google Play | Anti-competitive • Security | ||||
| Google search engine supports opaqueness for companies | Google Search • PageRank | ||||||
| GoPro advertises waterproof cameras despite design flaw and lack of warranty | GoPro | HERO12 Black | |||||
| GoPro Karma | GoPro | 2016-11-08 | Active | GoPro Karma | Planned Obsolescence • Poor Quality | ||
| GTA 5 moves to kernel-level anti-cheat on PC after purchase | Rockstar Games | 2024-09-17 | Grand Theft Auto V | Anti-cheat • Forced Migration • Privacy | |||
| Gun Safe Widespread Deceptive Advertising | Liberty Safe • Winchester • Browning • Tractor Supply • Cannon • Remington | Active | Safes • Home Safes • Gun Safes • Residential Security Containers | Deceptive Advertising | "Safes" are not real safes, self-certification, deceptive language, performative security features, exaggerating capacity by technicality, etc. | ||
| Hauptwerk expiration of perpetual license download | Milan Digital Audio | 2025-11-02 | Active | Hauptwerk | Service Termination • Planned Obsolescence | Perpetual license software not offered for download in spite of link saying "NEVER" expires | |
| HBO Max downgrades lifetime subscription | Warner Bros | February 2025 | HBO Max | Broken Promise • Lifetime Subscription | |||
| HelloSimply.com: easy to subscribe, difficult to unsubscribe | HelloSimply.com | Active | Service Termination | The service is trivially easy to subscribe to, but makes it prohibitively difficult to unsubscribe. | |||
| Help:Templates | |||||||
| Hisense adds non-skippable ads to it's GUI on the Spanish models | HiSense • Nexxen | February 2026 | March 2026 | Resolved | Advertising • Annoying • Artificial Intelligence | In Spain, Hisense began to place non-skippable and personalized ads with artificial intelligence every time you changed the channel, the HDMI source, | |
| HNGRYnsite Camera: From smart kitchen aid to e-waste | HNGRYnsite | ||||||
| HP adds 15 minutes to all customer service phone calls | HP | 2025-02-20 | 2025-02-21 | Resolved | Evil • Poor Support | HP added a phony 15 minute hold for all calls to their support line. | |
| HP Dynamic Security | HP | Firmware Lockout • Third-party Lockout | |||||
| HP Printers locking functionality behind ink availability | HP | Rent-seeking | |||||
| HP systemic DRM and firmware lockouts | HP | DRM • Firmware Lockout • Ownership | |||||
| Humble Bundle alters terms of sale | IGN | 2024-12-24 | Active | Humble Bundle | Planned Obsolescence • Terms of Service | Humble Bundle changed their terms of service and unredeemed product keys are set to expire in three years now. | |
| Hyundai Ioniq 5 N brake pad repair restrictions | Hyundai | 2025-10-30 | Active | Hyundai Ioniq 5 N • Hyundai Ioniq 5 | Repairability | Hyundai does not allow the DIY repair of rear brake pads on the Ioniq 5 N without access to proprietary software not readily available to consumers | |
| IFTTT discontinued Legacy plan | IFTTT | 2023 | Unresolved | Broken Promise • Subscription | IFTTT changed the deal on their lifetime subscription plan. | ||
| Inclusion of forced arbitration in Crunchyroll January 2025 TOS update | Crunchyroll | 2025-01-30 | Unresolved | Crunchyroll | Terms of Service | Crunchyroll added a forced arbitration clause to its terms of service. | |
| Indeed Forced Arbitration & bundling of consent | Indeed | 2025-08-22 | Active, Pending Resolution, Resolved, Unresolved | Indeed | Terms of Service | ||
| Instacart uses algorithmic pricing | Instacart • Eversight • Albertsons • Costco • Kroger • Safeway • Sprouts Farmers Market • Target | 2025-09-04 | Resolved | Instacart App | Price Discrimination • Surveillance Pricing • Algorithmic Pricing | Instacart offered different prices to customers buying the same things at the same time and place due to price experimentation. | |
| Intel CPUs stability issue | Intel | 2024-07-22 | Resolved | Defects • Poor Quality | Intel's 13th and 14th generation CPUs are unstable, requiring a microcode update. | ||
| IPhone 6 error 53 fingerprint sensor incident | Apple | 2016-02-05 | 2016-02-18 | Resolved | IPhone 6 | Bricking • Firmware Lockout • Right to Repair | |
| Jagex revokes grandfathered RuneScape monthly subscription pricing after purchasing yearly subscription | Jagex Limited | 2012 | 2026 | Active | RuneScape • Old School RuneScape | Post-purchase terms change | |
| JetBlue Travel Credits | JetBlue | 2000 | Active | JetBlue Travel Credits | Anti-consumer Behavior | JetBlue issues "travel credits" that only work at JetBlue as refunds instead of the currency that the ticket was purchased in. | |
| John Deere dealerships lobby against right to repair | John Deere | 2020 | Active | Lobbying • Ownership • Repairability | |||
| John Deere fails to uphold right to repair agreement | John Deere | 2021-01-01 | Active | Broken Promise • Ownership • Repairability | ... | ||
| John Deere security flaws exposed sensitive customer information | John Deere | 2021-04-22 | Resolved | Privacy • Security | John Deere allegedly lied about the severity of publicized vulnerabilities in their software. | ||
| Kemper guitar amplifer modeler puts features behind paywall after firmware update | Kemper Amps | 2024-09-27 | Active | PROFILER Player | Firmware lockout • Digital restrictions | Kemper has put certain features behind a paywall, most notably on the Kemper PROFILER Player. Even ones that were included at launch. | |
| Kerbal Space Program 2 | Take Two • Private Division | 2019 | 2025 | Active | KSP2 | Product Termination • Abandonware | KSP2 turned into abandonware, still being sold and charging full price for the game that was never finished. |
| KPN mandatory SMS authentication | KPN | January 2024 | Active | Accessibility • Security | SMS two-step verification; no landline or alternative 2FA option available | ||
| Kroger Grocery store electronic shelf labels & facial recognition | Kroger | 2024-08-05 | Active | Algorithmic Pricing • Privacy • Surveillance | Kroger uses technologies that allow for price discrimination, intrusive advertising and surveillance. | ||
| Kwikset Kevo | Kwikset • ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential Inc. | 2025-09-21 | 2025-11-14 | Active | Kevo | Service Termination | The Kwikset Kevo family of smart locks are having their app and web portal terminated November 14, 2025. Refunds are not provided. |
| L.A. Noire "Patch" mandates use Rockstar Games Launcher and Social Club account | Rockstar Games • Valve | 2021-04-19 | Active | L.A. Noire • Steam | Anti-consumer Behavior • Ownership Restriction • Digital Restriction • DRM enforcement • Erosion of rights | In April 2021, Rockstar released update v2663.1.0.0 for the Steam version of L.A. Noire that mandated use of Rockstar Games Launcher & Social Account. | |
| LA Fitness makes it purposely difficult to cancel memberships | LA Fitness | 2025-08-20 | Active | Gym membership | Misleading Subscription • Difficult to Cancel • Hotel California subscription?? lmao | LA Fitness goes out of their way to make it as difficult as possible to cancel gym memberships by placing intentional barriers in the path of customers. | |
| LaLiga forces Spanish ISPs to mass-block Cloudflare IPs during Soccer Games | LaLiga • Cloudflare | December 2024 | Active | Digital restrictions • IP Blocking | A Spanish court allowed LaLiga to mandate mass IP blocks, mostly Cloudflare, which serves millions of legitimate websites via shared IPs. | ||
| LG Bootloader incident | LG | 2021-12-31 | Pending Resolution | Service Termination | After exiting mobile, LG ends bootloader unlock services, preventing users from installing custom ROMs on their devices. | ||
| LG G4 malfunctions | LG | 2015 | G4 | Poor Quality | |||
| LG refrigerator warranty scandal | LG | 2024-02-27 | Active | Broken Promise • Poor Quality • Terms of Service | LG refrigerators have failed much earlier than reasonably expected, but warranties are not being honored due to a forced arbitration clause. | ||
| LG Television sale of personal data | LG | 2023-12-12 | Active | LG G3 OLED | Advertising • Opt-out • Privacy | Despite being priced at $3600+, The LG G3 OLED sells and monitors your activity on the device by default, and the opt out process is deliberately inconvenient. | |
| Life360 Terms of Service Forced Arbitration Agreement | Life360 | Active | Life360 | Terms of Service • Arbitration | Life360's Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause requiring users of the service to waive their right to a jury trial. | ||
| Linea Sketch revokes lifetime licenses | The Iconfactory | 2020-04-07 | Linea Sketch | Broken Promise • Rent-seeking | |||
| Malaysia Online Safety Act 2025 (ONSA) | N/A | 2026-01-01 | Active | Privacy • censorship • digital rights • content moderation | Malaysian law requiring platforms with 8M+ users to remove harmful content. Critics cite censorship concerns; government says it targets platforms, no | ||
| Mazda DMCA takedown of open source Home Assistant app | Mazda | 2023-10-10 | MyMazda | DMCA • Subscription | |||
| Mazda remote-start subscription | Mazda | 2021 | Active | Cloud • Ownership • Rent-seeking | Mazda began charging a subscription fee for remote starting, a previously-free cloud feature. | ||
| McDonald's 2017 India Leak | McDonald's • McDonald's | 2017-02-17 | 2017-03-20 | Resolved | McDelivery | Privacy • Security | |
| Meetup.com account creation | Deceptive Advertising | ||||||
| Mercedes-Benz EQS rear-wheel steering requires subscription | Mercedes-Benz | 2021 | Active | Firmware Lockout • Rent-seeking • Ownership | Mercedes-Benz EQS vehicles have restricted rear-wheel steering unless customers unlock the full range of motion with a subscription. | ||
| Mercedes-Benz locks horsepower behind paid subscription | Mercedes-Benz | April 2023 | EQE 350 • EQS 450 | Firmware Lockout • Rent-seeking | |||
| Meta AI permanent account suspensions | Meta | 2023 | 2025 | Active | Service Termination • Digital restrictions | Considerable amounts of people wrongfully permanently banned by Meta's AI content moderation. Permanent ban with no human involvement. | |
| Microsoft Copilot's recall feature | Microsoft | June 2024 | Active | Microsoft Copilot | Privacy | Microsoft Recall collects screenshots of the user's computer every few seconds to be used by Copilot, Microsoft's AI. | |
| Microsoft ends use of bypassnro.cmd for Windows 11 | Microsoft | 2025-03-28 | Windows 11 | Data • Privacy | |||
| MikroTik ignoring WiFi disconnecting after firmware upgrade on hAP ax3 / ax2 / cAP ax | MikroTik | HAP ax3 | Poor Quality • Security | ||||
| Miku charges subscription for previously free features | Miku | 2023-09-15 | Active | Miku Pro Smart Baby Monitor | Digital Restriction • Terms of Service • Cloud Lockout | Miku revoked previously free baby monitor features, now selling them for $9.99/mo under the "Care+" subscription. | |
| Miku Terms of Service and Arbitration | Miku | ||||||
| Milwaukee battery DRM | Milwaukee • TTI | August 2024 | Active | M18 batteries | Digital Restrictions • Planned Obsolescence | Undisclosed digital rights management (DRM) and diagnostic tracking in Milwaukee M18 batteries allegedly used in warranty claim denials. | |
| Minecraft account migration | Microsoft • Mojang | 2020-10-21 | 2023-12-18 | Unresolved | Minecraft Java Edition | Forced Migration • Service Termination | Minecraft players were forced to migrate their Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts or lose access to their account. |
| Minecraft Beta pre-1.8's lack of authentication | Microsoft • Mojang | ||||||
| Minecraft Chat Reporting and Restriction | Microsoft | Active | Minecraft | Privacy | Multiplayer access can be restricted due to user behavior. Chat messages in Minecraft are moderated and subject to UK age verification laws. | ||
| Minecraft enforcing undisclosed server EULA terms | Mojang • Microsoft | 2023 | Active | Minecraft | Terms of Service | Microsoft has changed the Minecraft EULA abruptly to enforce content guidelines for Minecraft mod developers and server admins. | |
| Minecraft LAN gameplay paywall | Microsoft • Mojang | 2025 | 2025 | Active | Minecraft • Xbox | Digital restrictions | Minecraft on Xbox now blocks LAN play behind Game Pass, stripping a paid feature and sparking major consumer rights concerns. |
| Minecraft post-purchase ownership rights changes | Mojang • Microsoft | 2009-05-19 12:00:00 AM | Active | Minecraft Java Edition | Terms of Service | A game first sold as a DRM-fee product, slowly became a license to a service. | |
| MinestoreCMS converting your license without approval | Minestore | MinestoreCMS | Broken Promise • Rent-seeking | ||||
| MinIO Object Browser: removal of management features | MinIO | 2025 | Active, Pending Resolution, Resolved, Unresolved | Object Browser | Poor Quality • Rent-seeking | Previously free features were paywalled in Object Browser 2.0 or removed entirely. | |
| MitID | 2024-06-12 | Active | Identification and person verification | Digital restrictions • Privacy • Ownership • Forced Migration | MitID on Android forces the use of Google Play Integrity API to access banking or digital signatures in public and private self-service solutions | ||
| Mojang shuts down community-run Minecraft servers | Mojang | 2024 | Active | Minecraft Java Edition servers | EULA • Ownership • Third-party | ||
| Molekule did not disclose air purifier data vulnerability | Molekule | 2025-10-26 | 2026-01-30 | Pending Resolution | Molekule Air Pro | Security | Molekule had a major user data vulnerability in its smart air purifier network, and refused to inform customers of the vulnerability |
| Molekule threatens to remotely shut down their app if purifiers used with third party air filters | Molekule | September 2025 | Active | Air Pro • Air Mini + | DRM enforcement • Remote shutdown | Molekule enacted a policy of remotely permanently shutting down air filters caught using third party filters | |
| MSI Motherboard CMOS Battery Obsolescence | MSI | 2022 | Ongoing | Motherboards | |||
| MyFitnessPal regressive upgrade | MyFitnessPal | 2025-08-27 | Active | MyFitnessPal mobile app | Digital restrictions | MyFitnessPal updated its app, removing core features and paywalling others in spite of poor feedback during beta. | |
| National Grid to install Smart Meters to Customers | National Grid • Sense | Active | Electric service | Privacy • Forced Migration | National Grid will be installing smart meters that can track the usage patterns of specific electrical devices. | ||
| Native Instruments is in preliminary insolvency | Soundwide | 2026-01-28 | 2026 | Pending Resolution | All | Abandonware • Preliminary Insolvency | Native Instruments is in preliminary insolvency, and a court‑appointed administrator will handle its restructuring and may sell the company's assets |
| Neato cloud shutdown | Neato • Vorwerk | 2025-10-06 | Active | Neato D10 • Neato D9 • Neato D8 • Neato D7 • Botvac D3 • Botvac D5 Connected | Cloud lockout • Product Termination | In October 2025, Neato announced the closure of the cloud. Only manual mode can be used on branded robot vacuums with no local API access. | |
| Netatmo Zigbee devices refuse to connect to third-party gateways | Legrand • BTicino • Netatmo | Active | Anticompetitive Behavior | Devices from Legrand and its subsidiaries refuse to connect unless they receive a special code during pairing to confirm it's a Legrand gateway | |||
| Netflix Games deactivated | Netflix | December 2024 | Netflix Games | ||||
| Netflix stream-quality controversy | Netflix | Netflix | |||||
| Ngenic forces subscription on previously “lifetime” Tune customers | Aurorakoncernen • Ngenic AB | 2025-05-14 | Ngenic Tune | Broken Promise • Rent-seeking | |||
| Nike Adapt: Smart shoes with app Integration and discontinuation | Nike | 2024-08-06 | Active | Adept | Service Termination | Nike discontinued their app, removing the core features of their expensive smart shoes. | |
| Nintendo 3rd party dock restrictions | Nintendo | 2025-07-02 | Active | Nintendo Switch 2 | Anticompetitive Behavior • Firmware Lockout • Third Party | The Nintendo Switch 2 uses an encrypted USB C handshake protocol, reducing third party compatibility. | |
| Nintendo Switch bans | Nintendo | ||||||
| Nintendo's May 2025 Policy Updates | Nintendo | 2025-05-08 | Nintendo Switch | ||||
| Nissan shuts 2G car service in UK | Nissan | April 2024 | |||||
| Nitro PDF License Deactivating | Nitro Software | 2025-05-07 | 2025-05-07 | Active | Nitro PDF | Service Termination • Planned Obsolescence | Nitro Software, Inc. is remotely deactivating perpetual paid licenses. |
| NOOK 1st gen devices end of life | Barnes & Noble | March 2024 | End of Life | ||||
| Nothing Phone (1) | Nothing | Phone (1) | Poor Quality • Warranty | ||||
| Nvidia buys stake in Intel | Nvidia • Intel | Active | Anti-competitive Behavior | Nvidia invests into their competitor Intel, rising doubts on the future of Intel's GPU offerings | |||
| Nvidia threatens GamersNexus | Nvidia | 2025-05-18 | Censorship • Manipulation | ||||
| NZ eRUC all-cars 24/7 GPS Surveillance proposal | Eroad and others | 2025 | Active | Eruc | Privacy | NZ Government planning to require installation of commercial vehicle trackers in every car that can't report location in real time itself. | |
| Oculus (Meta) Quest 1 Deprecation | Meta | 2023-01-31 | 2025-01-31 | Unresolved | Quest 1 | End of Life | |
| Ola Electric disables vehicle riding modes without MoveOS+ subscription | Ola Electric | Rent-seeking | |||||
| Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback | OnePlus • OPPO • BBK Electronics | January 2026 | Ongoing | OnePlus 13 • OnePlus 13T • OnePlus 15 | Bricking • Firmware Restriction • Right to Repair • Planned Obsolescence | OnePlus firmware update introduces permanent hardware-level anti-rollback mechanism that bricks devices attempting to downgrade | |
| OtO Lawn discontinues solutions program | OtO Lawn | 2025 | |||||
| Paragon NTFS software license invalidation | Paragon Software | 2022 | Active | NTFS for Mac | Broken Promise • Forced Migration • Rent-seeking | The perpetual licenses for NTFS for Mac are no longer being honored, and users are directed to purchase newer versions. | |
| PayPal requests ID post-purchase for cryptocurrency | PayPal | Active | PayPal | Surveillance • Privacy • Anti-consumer Behavior | Paypal Crypto Features | ||
| PCIe power connector design linked to melting GPU cables | Nvidia. PSI-SIG | Poor Quality | |||||
| PEAK "Roots" Update | Aggro Crab • Landfall Games AB | 2025-11-05 | Active | Erosion of rights | On 5 November 2025, an update was rolled out on Steam that required users who wanted to continue playing the game to agree to an extensive EULA. | ||
| Peloton removes Just Run feature | Peloton | 2021-05-05 | 2021-08-10 | Resolved | Tread • Tread+ | Cloud Lockout • Subscription | Peloton removed a feature that allowed using their treadmills without using their cloud services during a recall, and then reverted the change. |
| Peloton used-equipment activation fee | Peloton | 2024 | Active | Bike • Bike+ | Ownership • Rent-seeking | An activation fee applied on second activation siphons money from customers who want to use Peloton's cloud features. | |
| PepsiCo sued by FTC for rigging Soft Drink Competition | Federal Trade Commission • PepsiCo | 2025-01-17 | 2025-05-22 | Resolved | Pepsi • Pepsi Zero Sugar | Price discrimination | PepsiCo gives unfair advantage to customer retailer while raising prices for competitors. FTC alleges price discrimination. |
| Perplexity throttles PRO subscribers without prior notice | Perplexity AI | 2026-02-05 | Active | Perplexity Deep Research • Perplexity Labs | Post-purchase terms change | Without prior notice, Research queries for Pro users have been reduced from 600/day to 20/month, and Labs queries from 50/month to 25/month. | |
| PETKIT Pura Max 2 — Region-Lock | Petkit | 2025-09-01 | 2025-10-24 | Active | Pura Max 2 | Product Termination | PETKIT Pura Max 2 – beware of regional lock scam |
| Philips Hue starts requiring an account for the hue app | Philips | 2023-09-22 | Active | Cloud Lockout • Ownership • Privacy | The official Philips Hue app now requires account creation to control smart lights. | ||
| Philips shuts down Smart TV service of a lot models sold between 2009 and 2013 | Philips | 2025-04-25 | Active | Philips Smart TV | Firmware lockout • Remote shutdown | From April 25th 2025, the Smart TV service for many Philips TVs launched between 2009-2013 will no longer be available, and an error message appears. | |
| Pixel 4a Battery Performance Program | 2025-01-06 | Active | Pixel 4a | Quality | The Pixel 4a received a mandatory software update that reduces battery performance for safety, alongside an appeasement offer. | ||
| PlayStation 3 "Yellow Light of Death" | Sony • PlayStation | November 2006 | Active | Playstation 3 | Repairability • Knowingly selling defective product • Defects | Due to a likely defect in the 90nm graphic processing units (GPUs) of early PlayStation 3s,these models are extremely prone to GPU failure | |
| PlayStation restricts how developers can give upgrades to "PS5" editions | Sony | PlayStation 4 • PlayStation 5 | |||||
| Pluralsight revokes lifetime licenses | Pluralsight | 2025-02-01 | Active | A Cloud Guru | Broken Promise • Terms of Service • Rent-seeking | A Pluralsight course's lifetime license is no longer being honored. | |
| Pokémon GO utilizes player's data to train AI | Nintendo • Game Freak • Niantic • Creatures Inc | 2026-03-16 | Active | Artificial Intelligence • Anti-consumer Behavior | Pokémon GO utilizes 30 billion images taken from players to create a photo-map and train AI | ||
| PolarBackup - Cloud Storage | PolarBackup | Broken Promise • Rent-seeking | |||||
| Polestar paywalls performance update | Polestar | 2021 | Active | Polestar 2 | Digital restrictions | Polestar locks horsepower upgrade behind a paywall | |
| Poste Italiane turned a free identification service into a subscription | Poste Italiane | 2026-01-02 | Active | SPID | Rent-seeking • Subscription | The Italian postal service is now charging for a previously-free government ID service. | |
| Proposed Ring-Flock partnership (2025-2026) | Amazon • Ring • Flock Safety | October 2025 | 2026-02-12 | Resolved | Privacy | Ring intended to form a close partnership with Flock Safety, a private surveillance company with close ties to law enforcement, but withdrew before launch. | |
| Proton Mail discloses activist IP address to police | Proton | 2021-09-06 | Resolved | Proton Mail | Privacy • Legal Intimidation | ProtonMail logged and disclosed a user's IP under Swiss court order in Sept 2021, prompting policy clarifications and criticism | |
| Proven Industries v. Trevor McNally | Proven Industries | 2025 | Censorship • Legal Intimidation | ||||
| PsychonautWiki Journal locks drug & interaction tracking behind Paywall | Isaak Hanimann | 2025-09-05 | Active | PsychonautWiki Journal | Firmware lockout • Exploitative pricing • Unprompted Risk to Users • Health Risk to Users | PsychonautWiki Journal has locked drug tracking behind a premium tier with the exception of only the user's three most-used drugs. | |
| Qantas sale of tickets for cancelled services (ghost flights) | Qantas | 2023 | Resolved | Broken Promise • Quality | Qantas sold a large volume of tickets for flights that were inevitably canceled. | ||
| QIDI 3D printer house fire | QIDI Tech | 2025-03-31 | Unresolved | Tech Plus 4 | Quality • Safety • Silencing | A 3D printer allegedly caused a house fire, and in response, QIDI Tech banned the customer from their subreddit. | |
| RAM Shortage | OpenAI • Samsung • Micron | 2025-10-01 | Active | Price Fixing • Supply Shortage | OpenAI has made large RAM purchasing deals with major manufacturers for its Stargate project, leading to a consumer shortage of RAM globally. | ||
| Razer account “Human Verification” promotes World ID biometric verification | Razer • World ID • Tools for Humanity | Active | Rewards Points | Privacy | |||
| Razer Corp. Ends Software Degrading Consumer Devices | Razer | 2025-10-28 | Active | Synapses 2.0 • Orbweaver Chroma | Abandonware • Forced Migration | Razer Synapse 2.0 Discontinuation (2025) | |
| Red Shell tracker | 2018 | Active | Advertising • Privacy • Surveillance | ||||
| Red Sky Labs Muzio Player Premium post-purchase terms change | Red Sky Labs | 2025 | Active | Muzio Player | Advertising • Broken Promise • Subscription | Red Sky Labs acquired an app and stopped honoring the previous no-ads promise for premium users. | |
| Reddit made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate | 2023-07-01 | Accessibility | |||||
| RepairShopr data privacy | Synchro | 2024 | Active | RepairShopr | Privacy • Quality • Rent-seeking • Subscription • Terms of Service | RepairShopr was acquired by Synchro and began to misuse user data, hike up in price, and decrease in quality. | |
| Requirement for Canon EOS Webcam Utility subscription to enable webcam features on cameras | Canon | Subscription | |||||
| Restaurant Brands International caught training AI models using customer voices | Restaurant Brands International | 2025-09-06 | 2025-09-06 | Resolved | Privacy • Surveillance | One of Restaurant Brands International's companies, Burger King, was hacked, which revealed 100 million customer voice recordings are used for AI training. | |
| Revolut blocked access for users with custom OS | Revolut | ||||||
| Roblox's problematic moderation | Roblox | Roblox | Child Safety • Safety | ||||
| Rosetta Stone bricks legacy CD-based and downloadable software | Rosetta Stone | Language Learning Software | Bricking | Rosetta Stone is bricking legacy CD-based and downloadable software by blocking activation, despite perpetual license, to force paid subscriptions | |||
| Samsung ads in refrigerators | Samsung | 2025-09-16 | Active | Family Hub Refrigerators | Terms of Service • Advertising | Samsung rolled out mandatory advertisements to Family Hub refrigerators through over-the-network software updates. | |
| Samsung Bothersome visual and audible pop up every 2 hours on certain TV models | Samsung | Annoying • Data | |||||
| Samsung Frame TV asks for subscription to view photos | Samsung | 2025-07-31 | Pending Resolution | Samsung Frame TV | Digital restrictions | Samsung Frame TVs suddenly told users after an update they would require a subscription to display a slideshow on their TV | |
| Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3's camera gets artificially blocked after unlocking the bootloader | Samsung | 2021 | 2022 | Resolved | Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 | Firmware lockout | Front and rear cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 get artifically disabled when the user unlocks the bootloader. |
| Samsung Gear 360 software and services discontinued | Samsung | 2020-08-01 | Resolved | Gear 360 2017 • Gear 360 2016 | Planned Obsolescence • Digital restrictions | Samsung discontinued updates and servers for the Gear 360 without prior notice, limiting its features through digital restrictions. | |
| Samsung One UI 8 Bootloader Restriction | Samsung | 2025-07-18 | Active | One UI 8 | Planned Obsolescence • Digital Restriction • Firmware Restriction • Anti-consumer Behavior | Samsung quietly disables bootloader in One UI 8 worldwide where previously it only affected the U.S.. | |
| Samsung self-repair program restrictions | Samsung | 2024 | Active | Privacy • Repairability • Third-party • Wolf in Sheep's Clothing | Samsung gouges the price of parts sold to third party repair shops and requires data collection, complying with the word of the law but not the spirit. | ||
| Samsung sued over S22 performance throttle | Samsung | 2022 | 2022 | Resolved | Samsung Galaxy S22 series | Digital restrictions | samsung sued over samsung throttling on purpose |
| Sandisk disables IXpand drive app | Sandisk | 2025-04-30 | Pending Resolution | IXpand Drive Go • IXpand Drive Luxe • IXpand Flash Drive flip | Functionality of old drives | Forced change from "iXpand Flash Drive" app to "SANDISK Memory zone" breaks compatability with older iXpand drives | |
| Sassy Saints review copyright claim | Sassy Saints | 2025-02-06 | Censorship • Legal Intimidation | ||||
| Seagate sells old hard drives as new | Seagate | Deceptive Advertising • Poor Quality | |||||
| SecuRam installs backdoor on ProLogic series safe locks | SecuRam • Liberty Safe | 2025-08-08 | Pending Resolution | Unprompted Risk to Users | Researchers demonstrate that SecuRam ProLogic safe locks can be opened by unauthorized users with OEM installed backdoor. | ||
| Serato DJ Pro / DJM-S11 | |||||||
| Sevenhugs Smart Remote products discontinuation | Sevenhugs • Qorvo | 2025-06-01 | Active | Smart Remote • Smart Remote X • Smart Remote U | Product Termination | Sevenhugs discontinues cloud-connected Smart Remote products after being acquired by Qorvo | |
| Signal cloud backups | Signal | 2020 | Cloud • Privacy | ||||
| Sketchfab | Epic Gamess | 2025 | Sketchfab | ||||
| Skoda Citigo Move&Fun app discontinuation | ŠKODA Auto • Volkswagen | 2025 | |||||
| Skylight Digital Calendar Mandatory Updates | Glimpse LLC • Skylight | 2026-03-04 | 2026-03-05 | Skylight Calendar | TOS | The Terms of Service were amended to allow Glimpse LLC to require software updates for continued use of the service. | |
| Smartaira & plume wifi motion detection | Smartaira • Plume | Active | Privacy • Surveillance | Tenants living in buildings serviced by Smartaira have Plume Wi-Fi routers capable of motion detection in their home, raising privacy concerns | |||
| Smartwool adds forced arbitration to EULA | Smartwool | 2024-03-29 | Active | EULA • Terms of Service | Smartwool is retroactively opting their customers into a EULA in order to add forced arbitration clauses to their clothing. | ||
| Sonos forces post-purchase privacy policy change | Sonos | 2024 | Active | Broken Promise • EULA • Privacy • Terms of Service | Sonos changed the privacy policy for their smart products in 2024, and users must agree to the new terms to continue using smart features. The change was made to allow the company to sell users' personal information and data to third parties. | ||
| Sony Playstation hardware bans from online services | Sony | 2011 | 2025 | Active | Playstation • Playstation 4 • Plastation 5 • PS Vita | Service Termination • Digital restrictions | Sony is permanently banning consoles from accessing online services permanently. This practice is in place since launch of PS Vita for sure. |
| Sony PlayStation Vita proprietary memory card ban | Sony | Playstation Vita | |||||
| Sony Xperia turns camera monitor into subscription | Sony | 2025-08-26 | Active | Xperia 1 • Xperia 5 • Xperia PRO series | Ownership | Sony converted the External Monitor feature from a free, built-in function to a paid subscription service requiring $4.99/month, affecting phones already sold to customers | |
| Sony's attempted removal of "purchased" content | Sony | 2022-07-08 | 2023-12-21 | Resolved | Playstation Video | Ownership • Terms of Service | Sony was planning to remove purchased Discovery TV shows from user's libraries due to licensing issues, but later updated their licensing agreements. |
| Stångåstaden kickbacks and hidden rent | Stångåstaden | 2025 | Active | Kickbacks • Hidden rent • Attempts to silence | Hiding a part of the rent in ISP fees. | ||
| Starlink replaces subscription pause with $5/mo low speeds | Starlink | 2025-08-13 | Active | Terms of Service | Starlink disabled their "Pause" feature for their internet plans, launching an alternative "Standby mode" costing $5 USD/month with speeds of 500kb/s. | ||
| Stellantis customer data breach | Stellantis | 2025-09-22 | Resolved | Security • Third Party | Stellantis customer data was exposed in a breach through a third-party platform. | ||
| Stellantis in-car advertisements | Stellantis | 2024-02-07 | Advertising | ||||
| Subway footlong pass ineligibility | Subway | ||||||
| SumUp blocks card readers | SumUp | 2023 | 2025 | Active | SumUp Solo • SumUp 3G+ • SumUp Air • SumUp Solo Lite | Repairability | SumUp blocks their Card Readers after purchase, refusing to let their own customers' repair them, under the "prevent manipulation/tampering" premise. |
| SunStrong Management LLC puts solar monitoring app behind paywall | SunStrong Management | 2025-01-29 | SunPower | Rent-seeking | |||
| Swiggy and Zomato refuse to refund customers for cancelled orders | Swiggy • Zomato | ||||||
| Sygic Lifetime Premium License | Sygic | 2021 | 2026 | Active | software Licensing | Sygic - the company making Sygic Navigation software was a free navigation software with an option to purchase lifetime software with many lifetime | |
| Synology requiring proprietary-branded drives to be used with its NAS | Synology | 2025-04-16 | 2025-10-08 | Resolved | Third-party | Synology's new Plus Series NAS devices only support pre-approved storage devices for several months before being partially reverted. | |
| Systemd Adds Age Indication Ahead of Schedule | Active | Linux | Privacy | Systemd added age bracket ahead of schedule, the merge was quickly done while the revert attempt was blocked, with possible influence from Microsoft | |||
| T-Mobile T-Life app screen recording controversy | T-Mobile | 2025-05-17 | Active | T-Life App | Privacy | T-Mobile T-Life app discovered to include a default-on, in-app only, screen recording feature on some devices, raising concerns about transparency and privacy. | |
| Tapo P115 firmware update breaks Home Assistant integration | Tapo • TP-Link | November 2025 | Active | P115 | Regression caused by a firmware update | Updating the device's firmware to version 1.4.0 introduces regressions that break Home Assistant integrations. | |
| Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses | TeamViewer | TeamViewer 11 • TeamViewer 12 | Broken Promise | ||||
| Tekken 8 retroactively introducing micro transactions | Bandai Namco | 2024-02-29 | Tekken 8 | ||||
| Tesla asks customers to vote against Right to Repair | Tesla • Inc. | 2020 | Corporate Activism • Evil | ||||
| Tesla blames drivers for part failures it admits were defective | Tesla | 2023-12-20 | 2024 | Resolved | Tesla Model S • Tesla Model 3 • Tesla Model X • Tesla Model Y | Knowingly selling defective product | Wheels falling off at speed and other safety incidents caused by defective parts where the blame and cost was placed on the consumer. |
| Tesla Cybertruck voids warranty if Powershare feature is used | Tesla • Inc. | Cybertruck | |||||
| Tesla locks battery range behind paywall | Tesla | 2024 | Active | Digital Restrictions • Firmware • Ownership • Rent-seeking | Pre-2024 RWD Model Y electric cars require a $1,600 payment to unlock the full battery range. | ||
| Tesla locks heated rear seats behind paywall | Tesla | 2020 | 2022 | Resolved | Model 3 | Digital Restrictions • Firmware • Ownership • Rent-seeking | Tesla charged $300 to unlock heated seats through software in Model 3 variants. |
| Tesla locks horsepower behind paywall | Tesla | Active | Digital Restrictions • Firmware • Ownership • Rent-seeking | Tesla charges $2,000 to allow full power from the motors in Model Y and Model 3 cars. | |||
| Texas Attorney General sues multiple TV makers over ACR user data collection | Samsung • TCL • Hisense • Sony • LG | 2025-12-15 | Active | Smart TVs | Privacy | The Texas Attorney General filed lawsuits against five major smart TV manufacturers alleging inadequate disclosure of Automatic Content Recognition data collection practices. | |
| Texas Senate Bill 2420 (2025) | Texas House of Representatives | 2025-03-13 | Active | Privacy | New Texas law requiring photos of gov't ID to be uploaded for age verification before a user is allowed to use the App Store or Google Play store. | ||
| The Italian digital identity wallet only supports Google-certified Android devices | |||||||
| The US undermines the Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework with the EU by firing PCLOB staff | US government? | Active | |||||
| Tidal updates terms without explanation or opportunity to decline | Tidal | May 2025 | Tidala | Forced Migration • Terms of Service | |||
| TikTok and AI-powered ad tracking | TikTok Inc. | 2025-06-03 | Active | Privacy | In 2025, TikTok unveiled new AI-driven tools like Insight Spotlight and Content Suite that are AI-powered trackers for the purpose of advertisement. | ||
| Tim Hortons app collects user data without consent | Radar • Tim Hortons | May 2019 | August 2020 | Resolved | Tim Hortons App | Data • Privacy | |
| Tom Evans Audio copyright strike | Tom Evans Audio | November 2024 | Censorship • Legal Intimidation | ||||
| Uber EULA precludes jury trial | Uber | Resolved | EULA • Terms of Service | Uber's arbitration clause was upheld in court in a case where Uber riders involved in a car crash attempted to sue for damages. | |||
| Ubisoft forces players in single-player games to be connected to the internet to collect data | Ubisoft | 2025-04-24 | |||||
| UK Mandatory Digital ID Rollout for Employment 2025 | UK Government | Active | Erosion of rights • Privacy • Forced Migration • Repairability & Ownership Restriction • Digital restrictions | Mandatory digital ID system required for legal employment in the UK, raising systemic privacy, exclusion, and consent concerns. | |||
| UK Online Safety Act | 2023-10-26 | Active | Digital restrictions | On 26 October 2023, the UK Online Safety Act passed and became law. This act restricts the freedom of UK users of the internet and increases censorship. | |||
| Unecessary retirement of Microsoft Office Lens | Microsoft | 2025-08-08 | 2026-03-09 | Resolved | Microsoft Lens | Digital Ownership • Digital Restriction • Discontinued | Microsoft disabled Microsoft Lens and forced users to use OneDrive to scan documents which does not support local storage of said documents |
| United Chargers Inc puts Open Source interface access behind paywall on Grizzl-E car chargers | United Chargers Inc. | September 2025 | Active | Grizzl-E Ultimate | Exploitative pricing • Firmware lockout • Repairability & Ownership Restriction • Digital restrictions | United Chargers Inc. paywalls access to OCPP interface configuration on Grizzl-E brand car chargers. | |
| Unity Engine runtime fee | Unity | 2023-09-12 | Unity Engine | Rent-seeking | |||
| Universal Music Group has a team dedicated to eroding fair use rights | Universal Music Group • YouTube | August 2025 | Active | Erosion of Rights • Copyright Abuse | Universal Media Group violates fair use doctrine on YouTube by filing excessive content ID claims against creators. | ||
| Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 | 2013-05-08 | Resolved | Digital Ownership | This was a proposed law to restrict DMCA Section 1201 to only apply to copyright infringement, but it died in committee. | |||
| Urmet lightbulb | Urmet | 2025 | 2026 | Active | Repairability | This company made a light bulb for a back light of the name tags in the intercom to use 15volts, this bulb is 15 times more Expensive as common 12v | |
| User testing for mandatory paid subscription into Tado Smart Thermostat app | Tado | 2025 | 2025 | Resolved | Cloud Lockout • Evil • Ownership • Rent-seeking | Tado conducted a test on its users to see if users would sign up for a phony offer to subscribe for access to previously free features. | |
| User:Awambawamb/Sandbox | DeLonghi | 2016-11-01 | 2023-07-12 | Resolved | Magnifica S ECAM 23.125.B | Coffee machine • Espresso Machine | Espresso coffee machine with integrated coffee bean grinder. |
| User:FoulerTripod363/ User testing for mandatory paid subscription into Tado Smart Thermostat app | Tado | May 2025 | Tado Smart Thermostat app | Paywall | Tado locked previously free mobile app services behind a monthly subscription, and closed their community discussion page. | ||
| Valve allows ISPs and payment processors to censor content on Steam | Valve | 2025-07-11 | Active | Steam | Censorship | Following external pressures from financial companies and ISPs, Valve delisted controversial games on Steam. | |
| Valve removes arbitration requirement from Steam Subscriber Agreement | Valve | 2024 | Steam | Arbitration | |||
| Veo paywalls camera features | Veo Technologies ApS | 2025-03-13 | Active | Veo Camera 1 • Veo Camera 2 • Veo Camera 3 • Veo GO | Ownership | Veo patched a workaround on Mar 13, 2025, now blocking all video access without a subscription, reducing camera ownership value. | |
| Vital Proteins sells products with terms and conditions inside the container | Vital Proteins | ||||||
| VitalSource "Lifetime" false advertising | VitalSource | 2024-12-18 | Active | Broken Promise • Deception • Ownership | Five-year textbook licenses are misleadingly advertised as "lifetime" licenses. | ||
| Vizio fined by the FTC for collecting and selling user data without consumer consent | Federal Trade Commission • Vizio | 2017-02-17 | 2017-02-17 | Resolved | Privacy | VIZIO tracks Smart Television owners without consent. | |
| Vizio sued over unfairly appropriated software for their SmartCast system | Vizio | 2021 | SmartCast | Source Code • Right to Repair | |||
| VMware licensing change since acquisition by Broadcom | Broadcom Inc. | 2023-11-22 | Active | VMware | Terms of Service | Broadcom ended perpetual VMware licenses and changed to a subscription based model. | |
| VOIPO overbills customers and denys refunds | VOIPO | October 2024 | Unresolved | Business Practices | |||
| Volkswagen car-location data-exposure incident | Volkswagen | 2024 | Active | Privacy • Surveillance | Volkswagen suffered a large databreach, revealing customer's location data, battery statistics, and sensitive personal information. | ||
| Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription | Volkswagen | 2025 | Active | ID.3 | Firmware Lockout • Ownership • Rent-Seeking | The ID.3 ships with a 228 bhp engine but can only utilize up to 201 bhp of power unless the user pays a one-time fee or buys a subscription. | |
| Volkswagen protection of car diagnosis | Volkswagen | 2024-07-01 | Right to Repair | ||||
| Voluntary Recall of NVIDIA Shield K1 Tablets | NVIDIA | 2015 | 2015 | Resolved | SHIELD K1 | Firmware Lockout • Quality • Safety | NVIDIA recalled SHIELD K1 tablets that had defective batteries and pushed firmware updates to disable affected devices. |
| VRS Sim Racing Wheel Base full torque locked behind paywall | VRS | Active | UDFP20 Wheel Base | Firmware lockout | You buy a 20 Nm (newton meters) capable sim racing wheel base, but the 20 Nm is locked behind an additional software purchase. | ||
| Walmart's Onn devices bricked after update | Walmart | 2025-06-13 | 2025-07-25 | Active | Onn 4K Box • Onn 4K Pro • Onn HD Stick • Chromecast 4K • Chromecast HD | Firmware lockout | Walmart refuses to replace bricked Onn devices after a forced Android update bricked devices, with devices over a year old being ineligible for refund |
| Warcraft 3 Legacy CD Key removal - disallowing access for grandfathered physical media from play on battle.net | Activision Blizzard | 2025-10-21 | Unresolved | Warcraft 3 Legacy | Broken Promise | ||
| Washington house bill 2321 regarding 3d printers | 3D printers | Washington State bill mandating firearm detection algorithms in 3D printers; first law of its kind, with Class C felony penalties. | |||||
| Wegmans collects customers' biometric data | 2026-01-03 | Active | Surveillance • Privacy | Wegmans is collecting their customers' biometric data in New York City. | |||
| Wemo discontinuation of service | Belkin | 2025-07-10 | |||||
| Whistle pet tracker shutdown IoT fail | Tractive • Mars Petcare • Whistle Labs | 2025-07-28 | Active | Planned Obsolescence • Service Termination | Whistle pet trackers will cease functioning on 31 August 2025, following Tractive's acquisition of the company from Mars Petcare. | ||
| Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) discontinuation | Microsoft | Windows Mixed Reality | Discontinued | ||||
| Yahoo! mandatory use of AI on all consumer services and content | Yahoo | Data • Privacy | |||||
| YouTube age verification | YouTube • Google | 2025-07-30 | Active | YouTube | Digital Restrictions • Privacy | YouTube now uses AI to estimate user age. Users deemed underage are required to upload their government ID to bypass age-based restrictions. | |
| Zoom changed Terms of Service for Data Collection and Force Arbitration | Zoom Communications | 2023-04-01 | 2023-08-11 | Resolved | Zoom (Product) | Arbitration • Anti-consumer Behavior • Artificial Intelligence |