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#Implementation of [[False advertising]] or [[Bait-and-switch]] tactics in a company's commercials to bring in more customers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Calhoun |first=George |date=14 Nov 2024 |title=Is Price Gouging Real? Who’s Doing It? Is It Driving Inflation? |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2024/11/14/is-price-gouging-real-whos-doing-it-is-it-driving-inflation/ |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jalan |first=Ayush |date=7 Jun 2023 |title=What Is Planned Obsolescence? How Brands Keep You Buying |url=https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-planned-obsolescence/ |website=makeuseof}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=11 Jan 2025 |title=Spotting Predatory Business Tactics: A Consumer's Guide to Self-Defense |url=https://keepm.granitlabs.com/blog/predatory-tactics |access-date= |website=keepm}}</ref> | #Implementation of [[False advertising]] or [[Bait-and-switch]] tactics in a company's commercials to bring in more customers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Calhoun |first=George |date=14 Nov 2024 |title=Is Price Gouging Real? Who’s Doing It? Is It Driving Inflation? |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2024/11/14/is-price-gouging-real-whos-doing-it-is-it-driving-inflation/ |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jalan |first=Ayush |date=7 Jun 2023 |title=What Is Planned Obsolescence? How Brands Keep You Buying |url=https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-planned-obsolescence/ |website=makeuseof}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=11 Jan 2025 |title=Spotting Predatory Business Tactics: A Consumer's Guide to Self-Defense |url=https://keepm.granitlabs.com/blog/predatory-tactics |access-date= |website=keepm}}</ref> | ||
== Common Responses & Action Against Unfair/Greedy Corporations: == | ==Common Responses & Action Against Unfair/Greedy Corporations:== | ||
=== 1. Boycotts & Seeking Alternatives: === | ===1. Boycotts & Seeking Alternatives:=== | ||
As a result of collective disapproval of a companies ethics, people search for alternatives and urge others to do so as well. If done so correctly & on a large scale, this can be one of the easiest ways to push companies back into the right direction, either by rolling back an update or providing a new service to consumers in order to solve an apparent problem.{{Citation needed|date=09 Feb 2026}} | |||
=== 2. Piracy/Torrenting: === | ===2. Piracy/Torrenting:=== | ||
Plenty of people have responded to mistreatment & company backlash by pirating software in order to have a better experience/to save money and avoid giving more to corporations that has wrecked their original sense of trust.{{Citation needed|date=09 Feb 2026}} As more and more people pirate products, the more convenient It becomes due to seeding(short for allowing others to leach off you) or people providing said software to others themselves via "cracking"{{Citation needed|date=09 Feb 2026}} | Plenty of people have responded to mistreatment & company backlash by pirating software in order to have a better experience/to save money and avoid giving more to corporations that has wrecked their original sense of trust.{{Citation needed|date=09 Feb 2026}} As more and more people pirate products, the more convenient It becomes due to seeding(short for allowing others to leach off you) or people providing said software to others themselves via "cracking", and as it becomes more convenient, {{Citation needed|date=09 Feb 2026}} | ||
=== 3. Educating Others & Spreading Awareness === | ===3. Educating Others & Spreading Awareness:=== | ||
Victims & others that disapprove of excessive levels of greed committed by a certain corporation usually share information to others that are close to them(either by showing proof of it using sources or explaining something that happened to them & others). | |||
By doing this, the news can spread even if it isn't mainstream yet or the information is extremely hard to access intentionally, thus potentially leading to boycotts or Class Actions & Lawsuits If there is enough pressure.{{Citation needed|date=09 Feb 2026}} | |||
=== 4. Lawsuits & Class Actions: === | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||