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Unlike other pages on this wiki, this page is dedicated towards providing a backlog for users to update with potential incidents to cover in the future on the wiki. If you have covered an incident within this backlog, please make sure to delete the row from this page in order to prevent confusion. Additionally, all sources should be inserted within the 'refs' section of the table, and take advantage of '<nowiki/>'''insert reference'''<nowiki/>' via ''''ctrl + shift + k'''<nowiki/>' so that the sources are quick to add to the article. Please attempt to include a variety of sources!
Unlike other pages on this wiki, this page is dedicated towards providing a backlog for users to update with potential incidents to cover in the future on the wiki. If you have covered an incident within this backlog, please make sure to delete the row from this page in order to prevent confusion. Additionally, all sources should be inserted within the 'refs' section of the table, and take advantage of '<nowiki/>'''insert reference'''<nowiki/>' via ''''ctrl + shift + k'''<nowiki/>' so that the sources are quick to add to future articles. Please attempt to include a variety of sources for any incident you list, it makes it easier for further research for future articles!
 
Any content submitted to this page does not necessarily require any sort of quality*, just the SparkNotes that can be properly elaborated upon for a future article.
 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>excluding sources, please make sure there is some quality with any source you include here.


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==Example==
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|[[UPS]]
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|Charges excessively high brokerage fees disguised as "customs fees" that exceed shipping costs when mailing a product from the US to Canada; sent person in source a $42.60 bill AFTER delivering the package, without the person being informed of the shipper being UPS.
|Refs
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Runkle Of The Bailey |date=Nov 14, 2024 |title=I Fought UPS' Bogus Brokerage Fees, And Won |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKju9a4lA5I |access-date=Jun 26, 2025 |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>
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|[[Liberty Safe]]
|At the point of sale (POS) of the safe, the consumer was not informed that the manufacturer has a backdoor for the safe. In this specific incident, this backdoor was used to bypass the security for the purposes of the FBI
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Runkle Of The Bailey |date=Sep 6, 2023 |title=Liberty Safe Has Secret Backdoors -- And They Gave It To the FBI |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeCwrX2gcXM |access-date=Jun 26, 2025 |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>
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|[[Yubo]]
|Only in-scope elements of the provided source should focus on "age estimation" and "facial recognition", despite the ethical dubiousness of the platform for minors.
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=CinemaGuess |date=Jun 25, 2025 |title=Yubo; The Most Dangerous Snapchat Clone Ever Made |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKm5gkG9yMw |access-date=Jun 26, 2025 |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>
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|[[itch.io]], [[Night School Studios]], [[Netflix]]<!-- I was unsure if I should include this incident in the existing row for Netflix; there's multiple companies involved, and some ambiguity over who is responsible for this incident. -V -->
|In September 2024, users who purchased Oxenfree on itch.io were warned that the game was going to be pulled from the platform on October 1st. Consumers would not be able to download the installers after this date, so they would lose access unless they had them backed up. Users speculated that Netflix, the parent company of the development studio, had ordered the move; however, no response from Netflix or the developers was ever published. This is particularly notable because it is against itch.io's terms of service: "Users shall retain a license to this content even after the content is removed from the Service."
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=itch corp |date=15 Apr 2023 |title=itch.io Terms of Service |url=https://itch.io/docs/legal/terms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907004719/https://itch.io/docs/legal/terms |archive-date=7 Sep 2024 |access-date=27 Jun 2025 |website=itch.io}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=ShawnS |date=31 Jan 2025 |title=OXENFREE |url=https://delistedgames.com/oxenfree/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321070400/https://delistedgames.com/oxenfree/ |archive-date=21 Mar 2025 |access-date=27 Jun 2025 |website=Delisted Games}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=Colp |first=Tyler |date=9 Sep 2024 |title=Another reminder that your digital library isn't forever: Oxenfree will be completely removed from Itch.io next month |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/another-reminder-that-your-digital-library-isn-t-forever-oxenfree-will-be-completely-removed-from-itch-io-next-month/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250523111125/https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/another-reminder-that-your-digital-library-isn-t-forever-oxenfree-will-be-completely-removed-from-itch-io-next-month/ |archive-date=23 May 2025 |access-date=27 Jun 2025 |website=PC Gamer}}</ref>
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|[https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=SourceForge.net_forces_users_to_inconditionally_accept_terms_of_use_with_no_alternative_before_logging_in&veaction=edit&section=2 Sourceforge.net]
|Sourceforge forces users to accept terms and conditions before they can even log in, denying their right to refuse or disagree.
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== Potential sources of incidents ==
==Potential sources of incidents==
This section covers events that can lead to an anti-consumer incident. This primarily will be from a company buyout or IPO occurring, but this is a good way to be prepared. This will follow the same intended format as was defined above.
This section covers events that can lead to an anti-consumer incident. This primarily will be from a company buyout or IPO occurring, but this is a good way to be prepared. This will follow the same intended format as was defined above.
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==Reference List==
==Reference List==
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[[Category:Sources]]

Latest revision as of 16:51, 30 June 2025

Unlike other pages on this wiki, this page is dedicated towards providing a backlog for users to update with potential incidents to cover in the future on the wiki. If you have covered an incident within this backlog, please make sure to delete the row from this page in order to prevent confusion. Additionally, all sources should be inserted within the 'refs' section of the table, and take advantage of 'insert reference' via 'ctrl + shift + k' so that the sources are quick to add to future articles. Please attempt to include a variety of sources for any incident you list, it makes it easier for further research for future articles!

Any content submitted to this page does not necessarily require any sort of quality*, just the SparkNotes that can be properly elaborated upon for a future article.

*excluding sources, please make sure there is some quality with any source you include here.

Example[edit | edit source]

Below is an example of what an entry should appear as:

Company Summary of Incident Refs
Nintendo In 2025, the company Nintendo stripped Switch 2 consoles that used the MIG switch cartridge of all online functionality [1][2]

List of incidents not yet covered[edit | edit source]

Company Summary of Incident Refs
Netflix Removal of games from mobile platform; games preinstalled to user devices will no-longer work; many are exclusively distributed by Netflix for mobile. [3]
Xlear The company Xlear was falsely marketing its nasal spray as a covid preventative, potentially harming consumers; the company wants to combat the FTC. [4]
Microsoft Anticompetitive behavior contributing to the damaging of the security of customer devices. [5]
Intuit Responsible for bribing the government for the purposes of making doing taxes more difficult, thus making the company more money via TurboTax payments, TT turned into tiered subscriptions to force users into paying extra for vital tools. Hid the free version from consumers. [6]
Samsung, Glance Using the faces of its devices' users for the purposes of generating ads with AI to display on the lock screen [7]
Facebook, Yandex De-anonymizing web browsing identifiers [8][9]
TikTok Integrated AI tools to track user behaviors even more for the purposes of selling to advertisers [10]
k.chicntech Selling fraudulent products on its platform [11]
T-Mobile Secretly recording the screens of users via T-Life app [12][13]
Ubisoft Forced online in single-player games for the purposes of data collection; violation of GDPR. [14][15]
Facebook, Yandex Automatic opt-in of user-generated content being used for the purposes of training AI. [16][17]
Star Force DRM; History of damaging the devices of honest consumers [18]
Google Terms enacted in April reserve it the right to analyze sensitive call data [19]
VidIQ Scraping user generated content so poorly that it puts users at risk of violating copyright law [20]
Waymo Using interior camera to train GenAI models; automatic opt-in [21]
Dymo 550 and newer models have DRM in the printer paper; older model printers bricked via a driver update. [22]
Google Numerous incidents listed under Wikipedia's Google Litigation page N/A
UPS Charges excessively high brokerage fees disguised as "customs fees" that exceed shipping costs when mailing a product from the US to Canada; sent person in source a $42.60 bill AFTER delivering the package, without the person being informed of the shipper being UPS. [23]
Liberty Safe At the point of sale (POS) of the safe, the consumer was not informed that the manufacturer has a backdoor for the safe. In this specific incident, this backdoor was used to bypass the security for the purposes of the FBI [24]
Yubo Only in-scope elements of the provided source should focus on "age estimation" and "facial recognition", despite the ethical dubiousness of the platform for minors. [25]
itch.io, Night School Studios, Netflix In September 2024, users who purchased Oxenfree on itch.io were warned that the game was going to be pulled from the platform on October 1st. Consumers would not be able to download the installers after this date, so they would lose access unless they had them backed up. Users speculated that Netflix, the parent company of the development studio, had ordered the move; however, no response from Netflix or the developers was ever published. This is particularly notable because it is against itch.io's terms of service: "Users shall retain a license to this content even after the content is removed from the Service." [26] [27] [28]
Sourceforge.net Sourceforge forces users to accept terms and conditions before they can even log in, denying their right to refuse or disagree.

Potential sources of incidents[edit | edit source]

This section covers events that can lead to an anti-consumer incident. This primarily will be from a company buyout or IPO occurring, but this is a good way to be prepared. This will follow the same intended format as was defined above.

Company Name(s) Summary Refs
Nexus Mods, Chosen In June 2025, the relatively new company Chosen purchased Nexus Mods. Despite claims from Chosen to not pull anti-consumer moves, users are worried. [29][30][31]
Discord Potential Initial public offering; former Activision-Blizzard staff is new CEO [32][33][34][35]

See Also[edit | edit source]

Reference List[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Scattered Brain (Jun 16, 2025). "Soo... Nintendo banned my Switch 2 (Don't try the MIG Switch!)". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 18, 2025.
  2. ↑ Orland, Kyle (Jun 17, 2025). "Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game "backups"". Ars Technica. Retrieved Jun 19, 2025.
  3. ↑ Parrish, Ash (Jun 24, 2025). "Netflix is letting go of some of its best indie games". The Verge. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  4. ↑ Feiner, Lauren (Jun 24, 2025). "A nasal spray company wants to make it harder for the FTC to police health claims". The Verge. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  5. ↑ Triplette, Ryan (Nov 15, 2024). "Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior weakens its customers' cybersecurity". Federal News Network. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  6. ↑ CinemaGuess (Jun 10, 2025). "How The Scammy Model of TurboTax Finally Died". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  7. ↑ Whitwam, Ryan (Jun 4, 2025). "Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads". Ars Technica. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  8. ↑ Wildeboer, Jan (Jun 03, 2025). "Wildeboer post from Jan Wildeboer". social.wildeboer.net. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ↑ Goodin, Dan (Jun 3, 2025). "Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers". Ars Technica. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  10. ↑ Sato, Mia (Jun 3, 2025). "TikTok will give advertisers even more data on trends and users". The Verge. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  11. ↑ Harding, Scharon (Jun 3, 2025). "Shopper denied $51 refund for 20TB HDD that's mostly a weighted plastic box". Ars Technica. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  12. ↑ u/Appropriate_Rain_770 (May 27, 2025). "T-Life App Under Fire as Users Spot Hidden Screen Recording". Reddit. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ↑ Lee, Tyler (May 27, 2025). "T-Life App Under Fire as Users Spot Hidden Screen Recording". Android Headlines. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  14. ↑ Phillips, Tom (Apr 29, 2025). "Privacy firm files Ubisoft legal complaint over data collection, forced online in single-player games". Eurogamer. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  15. ↑ "Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you!". noyb. April 24, 2025. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  16. ↑ Borgesius, Frederik (Apr 24, 2025). "Post on akademienl.social". akademienl.social. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  17. ↑ "AP: kom nu in actie als je niet wil dat Meta AI traint met jouw data". autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl. Apr 24, 2025. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  18. ↑ Modern Vintage Gamer (Mar 30, 2020). "StarForce - The PC CD-ROM DRM that broke your Computer | MVG". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  19. ↑ Saam, Conrad (Apr 24, 2025). "Google asserts ownership of all advertiser assets in Local Services Ads". Search Engine Land. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  20. ↑ CutCafe (Jan 24, 2025). "This AI tool is EXPLOITING small content creators (So I exposed it)". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  21. ↑ Bellan, Rebecca (Apr 8, 2025). "Waymo may use interior camera data to train generative AI models, but riders will be able to opt out". TechCrunch. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  22. ↑ Malawey, David (Apr 3, 2025). "discard junkware and the extract pure value of Dymo". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  23. ↑ Runkle Of The Bailey (Nov 14, 2024). "I Fought UPS' Bogus Brokerage Fees, And Won". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 26, 2025.
  24. ↑ Runkle Of The Bailey (Sep 6, 2023). "Liberty Safe Has Secret Backdoors -- And They Gave It To the FBI". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 26, 2025.
  25. ↑ CinemaGuess (Jun 25, 2025). "Yubo; The Most Dangerous Snapchat Clone Ever Made". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 26, 2025.
  26. ↑ itch corp (15 Apr 2023). "itch.io Terms of Service". itch.io. Archived from the original on 7 Sep 2024. Retrieved 27 Jun 2025.
  27. ↑ ShawnS (31 Jan 2025). "OXENFREE". Delisted Games. Archived from the original on 21 Mar 2025. Retrieved 27 Jun 2025.
  28. ↑ Colp, Tyler (9 Sep 2024). "Another reminder that your digital library isn't forever: Oxenfree will be completely removed from Itch.io next month". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on 23 May 2025. Retrieved 27 Jun 2025.
  29. ↑ Hunt, Cale (June 17, 2025). "'No aggressive monetization' — Nexus Mods' new ownership responds to worried members". Windows Central. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  30. ↑ Dark0ne (June 16, 2025). "An Update From Dark0ne". Nexus Mods. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  31. ↑ LMG Clips (Jun 25, 2025). "Nexus Mods is about to get worse". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  32. ↑ Baker, Kelly (Apr 7, 2025). "Discord is Going Public — A Bold but Risky Step". WCQuad. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  33. ↑ "Discord's IPO and the Future of Gaming VOIP: What's at Stake?". EsportsHeaven. Jun 12, 2025. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  34. ↑ Horetski, Dylan (Apr 23, 2025). "Discord hires former Activision boss to take over as CEO". Dexerto. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  35. ↑ Scullion, Chris (Apr 24, 2025). "Discord founder steps down as CEO, will be replaced by former Activision Blizzard vice chairman". Video Game Chronicle. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
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