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<div style="font-size:1.75em;line-height:2em"> Welcome to the Consumer Action Taskforce! </div>
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The mission of this Wiki is to document a new generation of consumer exploitation that bears no resemblance to issues of the 1950s-1990s. We focus on the issues that often go unnoticed by review sites, tech press, and traditional consumer protection publications.
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<h2>Announcements</h2><h3>January 30, 2025</h3>We made it easier for you to create a new article! Simply click on [[Consumer_Action_Taskforce:Create_page/many|Create page]] in the sidebar, fill in the title for your page and click on "Create page".
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<h3>Your #1 mission: Turn videos into wiki articles</h3>
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<h4>Where to start &mdash; what we need from you</h4>
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<h4>Why?</h4>
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We're building a wiki to document consumer protection issues; every time a company has taken part in the anti-ownership, anti-privacy, anti-consumer practices that Louis has discussed on his channel for the past decade.
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Each video in our directory contains valuable information about consumer rights violations that needs to be transformed into wiki articles.
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When you click on any video in the directory, you'll find:
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*✓ A full video transcript
|og:description=Explore the Consumer Rights Wiki — a crowdsourced database exposing corporate dark patterns, repair lockdowns, subscription traps, and planned obsolescence. 1,200+ community-edited articles.
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Not ready to write? That's okay! You can still help by:
*🔍 Reviewing videos in the directory
*✅ Marking irrelevant videos for review
*➕ Adding missing relevant videos to the list
 
👉 [[Louis Rossmann - Video Directory|Click here to browse the Video Directory]] 👈
 
Want to learn more about our mission? Check out our full [[Mission statement|Mission Statement]].
 
Want more ways you can help? See [[How to help]].
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