Clippy Campaign: Difference between revisions

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In October 2025, Rossmann began uploading green-screen videos in the style of silhouette interviews, which are used by news broadcasts to keep an interviewee's identity anonymous, but can be used rhetorically outside of news broadcasts to visually represent an anonymous party; in this case, the anonymous party is the collection of editors for Consumer Rights Wiki and members of, or subscribers to, the FULU Foundation.<ref name="first Rossmann silhouette">{{Cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y | title=Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH! | date=9 Oct 2025}}</ref> These videos consist of Rossmann depicted as a featureless silhouette, speaking about a specific company's malpractice, and occasionally holding up a large paperclip against the background, visually representing the vast number of "Clippy" users online.

On 9 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded his first silhouette video, an annunciatory reaction to recent decisions from the company Synology. The video, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH!]", begins by dedicating the announcement to restoring consumer rights and the rights of ownership. The core of the video refers to the company formerly [[Synology_requiring_proprietary-branded_drives_to_be_used_with_its_NAS|requiring users to use only Synology hard drives in their network-attached storage units]], a policy enforced by DRM. Synology reversed their decision, but Rossmann points out that it is not enough to simply undo the action; the company has to indicate plainly to its customers that they will not engage in further anti-consumer practices in the future. The video ends with a call to action for members of the Clippy movement, declaring that the fight for consumer rights had moved into a new era, in which companies reverse the detrimental actions which had previously characterized their policies toward their own customers:

On 9 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded his first silhouette video, an annunciatory reaction to recent decisions from the company [[Synology]]. The video, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH!]", begins by dedicating the announcement to restoring consumer rights and the rights of ownership. The core of the video refers to the company formerly [[Synology_requiring_proprietary-branded_drives_to_be_used_with_its_NAS|requiring users to use only Synology hard drives in their network-attached storage units]], a policy enforced by DRM. Synology reversed their decision, but Rossmann points out that it is not enough to simply undo the action; the company has to indicate plainly to its customers that they will not engage in further anti-consumer practices in the future. The video ends with a call to action for members of the Clippy movement, declaring that the fight for consumer rights had moved into a new era, in which companies reverse the detrimental actions which had previously characterized their policies toward their own customers:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y&t=163s Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH! 2:43]

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We have entered a new stage of consumer rights: the FAFO era, where companies that take part in these practices reverse them. But it's not enough that they reverse them—they must also repent. Clippy demands repentance. I have not seen this repentance, and therefore I am not satisfied.</blockquote>

On 10 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded a second silhouette video, an open letter to Satya Nadella, the current CEO of Microsoft, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NVtg1tkgSQ Microsoft went too far]". He mentions that Windows 11, the newest version of the company's flagship product, has been redesigned to prohibit setup without [[Windows_11#Windows_11_requires_a_Microsoft_Account_to_use|logging into a Microsoft account online]], even if the user never plans on using any online Microsoft services. It is thus no longer possible to use solely local methods (i.e., methods that do not require connecting to an Internet web server) to set up a computer with Windows 11 installed. He then points out the hypocrisy in their policy regarding the operating system's preceding version, Windows 10, and calls on Nadella to take action to correct the company's missteps:

On 10 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded a second silhouette video, an open letter to Satya Nadella, the current CEO of [[Microsoft]], titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NVtg1tkgSQ Microsoft went too far]". He mentions that Windows 11, the newest version of the company's flagship product, has been redesigned to prohibit setup without [[Windows_11#Windows_11_requires_a_Microsoft_Account_to_use|logging into a Microsoft account online]], even if the user never plans on using any online Microsoft services. It is thus no longer possible to use solely local methods (i.e., methods that do not require connecting to an Internet web server) to set up a computer with Windows 11 installed. He then points out the hypocrisy in their policy regarding the operating system's preceding version, Windows 10, and calls on Nadella to take action to correct the company's missteps:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NVtg1tkgSQ&t=63s Microsoft went too far 1:03]

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 In October 2025, Rossmann began uploading green-screen videos in the style of silhouette interviews, which are used by news broadcasts to keep an interviewee's identity anonymous, but can be used rhetorically outside of news broadcasts to visually represent an anonymous party; in this case, the anonymous party is the collection of editors for Consumer Rights Wiki and members of, or subscribers to, the FULU Foundation.<ref name="first Rossmann silhouette">{{Cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y | title=Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH! | date=9 Oct 2025}}</ref> These videos consist of Rossmann depicted as a featureless silhouette, speaking about a specific company's malpractice, and occasionally holding up a large paperclip against the background, visually representing the vast number of "Clippy" users online.
-On 9 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded his first silhouette video, an annunciatory reaction to recent decisions from the company Synology. The video, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH!]", begins by dedicating the announcement to restoring consumer rights and the rights of ownership. The core of the video refers to the company formerly [[Synology_requiring_proprietary-branded_drives_to_be_used_with_its_NAS|requiring users to use only Synology hard drives in their network-attached storage units]], a policy enforced by DRM. Synology reversed their decision, but Rossmann points out that it is not enough to simply undo the action; the company has to indicate plainly to its customers that they will not engage in further anti-consumer practices in the future. The video ends with a call to action for members of the Clippy movement, declaring that the fight for consumer rights had moved into a new era, in which companies reverse the detrimental actions which had previously characterized their policies toward their own customers:
+On 9 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded his first silhouette video, an annunciatory reaction to recent decisions from the company [[Synology]]. The video, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH!]", begins by dedicating the announcement to restoring consumer rights and the rights of ownership. The core of the video refers to the company formerly [[Synology_requiring_proprietary-branded_drives_to_be_used_with_its_NAS|requiring users to use only Synology hard drives in their network-attached storage units]], a policy enforced by DRM. Synology reversed their decision, but Rossmann points out that it is not enough to simply undo the action; the company has to indicate plainly to its customers that they will not engage in further anti-consumer practices in the future. The video ends with a call to action for members of the Clippy movement, declaring that the fight for consumer rights had moved into a new era, in which companies reverse the detrimental actions which had previously characterized their policies toward their own customers:
 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_XQX7di2Y&t=163s Synology reverses course on requiring branded drives: NOT ENOUGH! 2:43]
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 We have entered a new stage of consumer rights: the FAFO era, where companies that take part in these practices reverse them. But it's not enough that they reverse them—they must also repent. Clippy demands repentance. I have not seen this repentance, and therefore I am not satisfied.</blockquote>
-On 10 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded a second silhouette video, an open letter to Satya Nadella, the current CEO of Microsoft, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NVtg1tkgSQ Microsoft went too far]". He mentions that Windows 11, the newest version of the company's flagship product, has been redesigned to prohibit setup without [[Windows_11#Windows_11_requires_a_Microsoft_Account_to_use|logging into a Microsoft account online]], even if the user never plans on using any online Microsoft services. It is thus no longer possible to use solely local methods (i.e., methods that do not require connecting to an Internet web server) to set up a computer with Windows 11 installed. He then points out the hypocrisy in their policy regarding the operating system's preceding version, Windows 10, and calls on Nadella to take action to correct the company's missteps:
+On 10 October 2025, Rossmann uploaded a second silhouette video, an open letter to Satya Nadella, the current CEO of [[Microsoft]], titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NVtg1tkgSQ Microsoft went too far]". He mentions that Windows 11, the newest version of the company's flagship product, has been redesigned to prohibit setup without [[Windows_11#Windows_11_requires_a_Microsoft_Account_to_use|logging into a Microsoft account online]], even if the user never plans on using any online Microsoft services. It is thus no longer possible to use solely local methods (i.e., methods that do not require connecting to an Internet web server) to set up a computer with Windows 11 installed. He then points out the hypocrisy in their policy regarding the operating system's preceding version, Windows 10, and calls on Nadella to take action to correct the company's missteps:
 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NVtg1tkgSQ&t=63s Microsoft went too far 1:03]