View table: Incident
Table structure:
- Company - List of Page, delimiter: ,
- StartDate - Start date
- EndDate - End date
- Status - String (allowed values: Active · Pending Resolution · Resolved)
- ProductLine - List of Page, delimiter: ,
- Product - List of Page, delimiter: ,
- ArticleType - String (allowed values: Product · Service)
- Type - List of String, delimiter: ,
- Description - String
This table has 82 rows altogether.
| Page | Company | StartDate | EndDate | Status | ProductLine | Product | ArticleType | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airthings ASA releases a new app that forces always online and collected user devices data to be sent to their cloud (edit) | Airthings | 2024-05-13 | 2024-05-13 | Pending Resolution | Wave Gen 1 | Wave Gen 1 | Product | Privacy • Digital restrictions • Service Termination | Airthings products collect user environment data and their new app uploads everything when the previous app allowed offline use despite dark patterns |
| Alarmy app and the problem of expensive lifetime access after switching to "freemium" subscription model. (edit) | DelightRoom | October 2016 | August 2025 | Active | Smartphone App | Alarmy | Product | Exploitative pricing | Alarmy app is now subscription-only, using a ludicrous $200 lifetime-access to force users. Reddit users say it once cost $2 — unverified. |
| AllTrails not having a Privacy Policy (edit) | 2025-07-25 | Active | Service | Terms of Service | The Website AllTrails has a dead 404 link when trying to access their Privacy Policy. Talking to Customer Service also requires accepting it. | ||||
| Amazon altering the content of purchased ebooks (edit) | Amazon | 2023 | Active | Amazon Kindle | Amazon Kindle | Service | Digital restrictions | Amazon automatically allows publishers to make substantial editorial changes to users' purchased books | |
| Amazon sued for enrolling and charging customers into Audible without consent (edit) | Amazon • Audible | 2024 | 2025 | Active | Audible membership | Amazon Prime | Service | Service Termination | Audible enrolled Amazon customers in Audible memberships without their knowledge or consent |
| Android Developer Verification (edit) | 2025-08-25 | Active | Google-certified Android devices | Android | Service | 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. | ||
| Anthem server shutdown (edit) | Electronic Arts • BioWare | 2025-07-03 | Active | Anthem (game) | Product | 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's anti-repair and anti-refurbishment practices (edit) | Apple | Product | Repairability • Repairability & Ownership Restriction • Digital restrictions • Planned Obsolesence • 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 | |||||
| Audi Basic HVAC "Sync" Function Paywalled (edit) | Audi | Active | Product | Audi charges $758 for an HVAC “Sync” button, which is physically present within the vehicle, but disabled until a payment is made. | |||||
| Bitly QR Code Preview Page Advertising (edit) | Bitly | February 2025 | Active | QR-Code-Generator.com • Bitly links | Service | 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. | ||
| BlueCruise hands-free driving (edit) | Ford | 2021 | Active | Service | Ford BlueCruise was launched in 2021. | ||||
| BMW API restrictions (edit) | BMW | 2025-08-30 | Active | Vehicles | Vehicles • Cars • Automobiles | Product | Digital restrictions | BMW destroys home assistant integration for customers of BMW's online services subscriptions | |
| Brother printer dcp 3550 cdw cartridges failure (edit) | Brother Industries Ltd. | 2025 | Planned Obsolesence • Third Party | ||||||
| BTicino/Legrand/Netatmo Zigbee devices refuse to connect to third-party gateways (edit) | Legrand • BTicino • Netatmo | Active | BTicino/Legrand/Netatmo zigbee devices | Product | 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 | |||
| CF Moto puts previously included features behind paywall (edit) | CFMoto | 2025-08-15 | Active | Motorcycles | CFMOTO Ride | Product | Cloud lockout | CFMoto moved to a subscription model for their CFMOTO Ride app, charging users for features they previously received with their purchase | |
| Click Adventure Scam Game: Draining Consumer Wallets and Bypassing Steam Security (edit) | Valve | Active | Steam | Service | Scam • Security | The Click Adventure controversy involves the Steam game Click Adventure compromising users' accounts to execute unauthorized transactions. | |||
| Crave app refuses TV's based on production date (edit) | Samsung • HBO • Crave | 2025-09-15 | Active | Samsung TV • Streaming service | 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 3d Scanner - Fored update, which removed previously advertised and shown features (edit) | Creality | Active | 3D Scanners | Otter • Raptor • Ferret* | Service | 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 (edit) | Creative Fabrica | January 2025 | Active | All Access Subscription | All Access Subscription | Service | 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. | |
| Dead star server shutdown (edit) | Armature Studio | Dead Star | Product | Online video game Dead Star shut down it's servers, leaving the tutorial as the only accessible content in the game. | |||||
| Dictionary.com shuts down premium app after selling lifetime subscriptions (edit) | Dictionary.com | 2025-06-18 | 2025 | Active | Dictionary.com Pemium | Dictionary app | Service | lifetime subscription revoked | Premium ad free app with lifetime subscription shut down while leaving up an ad supported version |
| Discontinuation of Samsung Gear 360 Software and Services (edit) | Samsung | 2020-08-01 | Resolved | Gear 360 | Gear 360 2017 • Gear 360 2016 | Service | Planned Obsolescence • Digital restrictions | Samsung discontinued updates and servers for the Gear 360 without prior notice, limiting its features through digital restrictions. | |
| Disney wrongful-death lawsuit (edit) | Disney | February 2024 | Pending Resolution | Disney+ | Service | Terms of Service | TBD | ||
| EA requires open beta players of battlefield 6 to change their motherboard bios settings (edit) | EA | Active | Battlefield 6 | Product | |||||
| Echelon fitness firmware lockout (edit) | Echelon Fitness | July 2025 | Active | Echelon exercie equipment | Exercise equipment | Product | 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 (edit) | |||||||||
| EINSTAR VEGA hidden activation requirement before file transfer is enabled (edit) | Shining 3D | 2024-12-02 | Active | EINSTAR VEGA | EINSTAR VEGA handheld 3D scanner | Product | Repairability & Ownership Restriction | Mandatory online activation blocks local file transfer functionality, undisclosed in marketing materials. | |
| European Consumer Centre on the Lack of Quality Standards for Exalted Skins (edit) | Riot Games • Tencent | 2025-07-25 | Pending Resolution | League of Legends: Exalted Skins Exclusive Cosmetics | Spirit Blossom Morgana Exalted Skin | Product | 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 (edit) | Suzuki • Hyundai | Active | Suzuki Vitara • Hyundai Santa Fe | Car | Product | Terms of Service • Privacy | Car is forcing you to agree to spying on you by locking you out of some features. | ||
| Fisher price smart app (edit) | 2025-10-01 | Active | Service | Planned Obsolescence | The app to control the lamp using Bluetooth stopped working. https://www.amazon.com.be/-/nl/Fisher-Price-Slaap-Assistent-Muziekdoos-Geluidsgenerator-B | ||||
| FTC sues PepsiCo for rigging Soft Drink Competition (edit) | Federal Trade Commission • PepsiCo | 2025-01-17 | 2025-05-22 | Resolved | Pepsi | Pepsi • Pepsi Zero Sugar | Product | Price Discrimination | PepsiCo gives unfair advantage to customer retailer while raising prices for competitors. FTC alleges price discrimination. |
| Good2Go Mobile (Canada) phases out 3G network, Merges with LuckyMobile (edit) | Good2Go Mobile • LuckyMobile | 2025-07-25 | 2025-07-31 | Active | Service | 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 (edit) | Goodlife Health Clubs - Australia | July 2025 | Pending Resolution | Membership | Goodlife App | Service | 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 forces your device to join their "Find Hub" network, hard to opt out (edit) | Active | Service | Privacy | Google added some Android devices to their "Find Hub" network without consent, only informing via email. | |||||
| Google Nest Protect forced to use Google app (edit) | Google • Nest | Active | Nest Protect | Nest Protect Smoke + Carbon Monoxide Alarm (all generations) | Service | 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 (1st and 2nd Generation) Support Discontinuation (edit) | Google • Nest | Active | Nest Learning Thermostat | 1st generation 2011 • 2nd generation 2012 • 2nd generation Europe version 2014 | Service | Abandonware | Google ending support for 1st/2nd gen Nest thermostats Oct 2025, removing app control and CO safety shutoff feature despite working hardware. | ||
| Google Pixel 9 Pro camera bar separates from phone body (edit) | 2024 | 2025 | Active | Google Pixel | Google Pixel 9 Pro | Product | 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. | |
| HelloSimply.com: easy to subscribe, difficult to unsubscribe (edit) | HelloSimply.com | Active | Service | Service Termination | The service is trivially easy to subscribe to, but makes it prohibitively difficult to unsubscribe. | ||||
| JetBlue Travel Credits (edit) | JetBlue | ||||||||
| Kemper guitar amplifer modeler puts features behind paywall after firmware update (edit) | Kemper Amps | Active | Kemper Player | Product | Firmware lockout | 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 (edit) | Take Two • Private Division | 2019 | 2025 | Active | KSP2 | Product | Product Termination • Abandonware | KSP2 turned into abandonware, still being sold and charging full price for the game that was never finished. | |
| LA Fitness makes it purposely difficult to cancel memberships (edit) | Gym membership | Gym membership | 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 (edit) | LaLiga • Cloudflare | December 2024 | Active | Internet Access | Service | 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 (edit) | LG | 2021-12-31 | Pending Resolution | LG Smartphones | Service | Service Termination | After exiting mobile, LG ends bootloader unlock services, preventing users from installing custom ROMs on their devices. | ||
| MD Health Pathways automatic opt in of taxpayers on water / utility bills without consent / Dr. Dirk Perritt / Text a Doc (edit) | Tap Telehealth | 2022 | Active | Tap Telehealth Text a Doctor Service | Service | This for profit company has come into Garland & schmoozed the city council into signing a contract with them that automatically opts in all residents | |||
| Meta AI permanent account suspensions (edit) | Meta | 2023 | 2025 | Active | Service | 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 (edit) | Microsoft | June 2024 | Active | Microsoft Copilot | Service | Privacy | Microsoft Recall collects screenshots of the user's computer every few seconds to be used by Copilot, Microsoft's AI. | ||
| Miku charges subscription for previously free features (edit) | Miku | Active | Service | Digital restrictions • Terms of Service • Cloud lockout | On September 15 2023, Miku revoked previously free baby monitor features, now selling them for $9.99 under care+ subscription. | ||||
| Milwaukee battery drm (edit) | Milwaukee • TTI | Active | Power tools | Milwaukee M18 batteries | Product | Undisclosed digital rights management (DRM) and diagnostic tracking in Milwaukee M18 batteries allegedly used in warranty claim denials. | |||
| Minecraft enforceing undisclosed server EULA terms (edit) | Microsoft | Active | Service | Terms of Service • Privacy | Minecraft used non-existent ToS to take down user mods. It was about violating rule, that did not exist in public ToS. | ||||
| Minecraft post-purchase ownership rights changes (edit) | Mojang • Microsoft | 2009-05-19 12:00:00 AM | Active | Minecraft | Minecraft Java Edition | Product | Terms of Service | A game first sold as a DRM-fee product, slowly became a license to a service. | |
| Nintendo 3rd party dock restrictions (edit) | Nintendo • Antank • Genki | Active | Nintendo Switch | Nintendo switch • Nintendo Switch 2 | Product | Third Party • Firmware lockout | Nintendo has placed an encryption method on the bottom USB C Port of the Switch 2 in order to make it harder for 3rd party docks to be manufactured. | ||
| Nitro PDF License Deactivating (edit) | Nitro Software | 2025-05-07 | 2025-05-07 | Active | Nitro PDF | Nitro PDF | Product | Service Termination • Planned Obsolescence | Nitro Software, Inc. is remotely deactivating perpetual paid licenses. |
| NZ eRUC all-cars 24/7 GPS Surveillance proposal (edit) | Eroad and others | 2025 | Active | Road user taxing known as ruc (road user charges) | Eruc | Service | Privacy | NZ Government planning to require installation of commercial vehicle trackers in every car that can't report location in real time itself. | |
| Polestar paywalls performance update (edit) | Polestar | 2021 | Active | Polestar 2 | Product | Digital restrictions | Polestar locks horsepower upgrade behind a paywall | ||
| PsychonautWiki Journal locks drug & interaction tracking behind Paywall (edit) | Isaak Hanimann | 2025-09-05 | Active | PsychonautWiki Journal | Service | 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. | ||
| QR-Code-Generator.com “free” QR code lockout (edit) | Bitly | 2025-07-30 | Active | Qr-code-generator.com | Qr-code-generator.com | Product | Terms of Service | Bitly’s QR-Code-Generator.com markets “free” QR codes that later break unless users pay, causing losses for printed materials. | |
| Samsung ads in refrigerators (edit) | ad | Samsung rolled out mandatory advertisements to Family Hub refrigerators through over-the-network software updates | |||||||
| Samsung Frame TV asks for subscription to view photos (edit) | Samsung | 2025-07-31 | Pending Resolution | Samsung Frame TV | Samsung Frame TV | Product | 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 (edit) | Samsung | 2021 | 2022 | Resolved | Galaxy Z series | Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 | Product | Firmware lockout | Front and rear cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 get artifically disabled when the user unlocks the bootloader. |
| Samsung rolls out a software update to show advertisements on refrigerators' screens (edit) | Samsung | 2025-09-18 | Active | Samsung Family Hub | Product | ad | Samsung pushed an OTA update that adds advertisements to certain screen modes on the Family Hub refrigerators in the United States. | ||
| Samsung sued over S22 performance throttle (edit) | Samsung | 2022 | 2022 | Resolved | Samsung Galaxy S | Samsung Galaxy S22 series | Product | Digital restrictions | samsung sued over samsung throttling on purpose |
| SecuRam installs backdoor on ProLogic series safe locks (edit) | SecuRam • Liberty Safe | 2025-08-08 | Pending Resolution | ProLogic | Product | Unprompted Risk to Users | Researchers demonstrate that SecuRam ProLogic safe locks can be opened by unauthorized users with OEM installed backdoor. | ||
| Sevenhugs Smart Remote products discontinuation (edit) | Sevenhugs • Qorvo | 2025-06-01 | Active | Smart Remote | Smart Remote • Smart Remote X • Smart Remote U | Product | Product Termination | Sevenhugs discontinues cloud-connected Smart Remote products after being acquired by Qorvo | |
| Sony Playstation hardware bans from online services (edit) | Sony | 2011 | 2025 | Active | Gaming consoles | Playstation • Playstation 4 • Plastation 5 • PS Vita | Service | 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 Xperia turns camera monitor into subscription (edit) | Sony | 2025-08-26 | Active | Xperia | Xperia 1 • Xperia 5 • Xperia PRO series | Product | 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 | |
| Spirit Airlines Obfuscates Web Check-In (edit) | Spirit Airlines | Active | Service | Spirit Airlines' mobile webpage hides its online check in button at the bottom to enticed app downloads. | |||||
| Starlink replaces subscription pause with $5/mo low speeds (edit) | Starlink | 2025-08-13 | Active | Starlink Satellite Internet | Service | 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. | ||
| Steam and itch.io Game De-indexing (edit) | Steam • Itch.io • Visa • MasterCard • PayPal • Stripe | Active | Gaming | April 2025, Steam and itch.io de-indexed video games without notice. | |||||
| SumUp blocks card readers (edit) | SumUp | 2023 | 2025 | Active | SumUp Solo • SumUp 3G+ • SumUp Air • SumUp Solo Lite | Product | Repairability | SumUp blocks their Card Readers after purchase, refusing to let their own customers' repair them, under the "prevent manipulation/tampering" premise. | |
| T-Mobile T-Life app screen recording controversy (edit) | T-Mobile | 2025-05-17 | Active | T-Mobile Smart Devices | T-Life App | Product | 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. | |
| Tesla blames drivers for part failures it admits were defective (edit) | Tesla | 2023-12-20 | 2024 | Resolved | Tesla Model S • Tesla Model 3 • Tesla Model X • Tesla Model Y | Product | 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. | |
| TikTok & AI-powered Ad Tracking (edit) | TikTok Inc. | 2025-06-03 | Active | Tiktok Inc. • TikTok One • Insight Spotlight • Content Suite | Service | 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. | ||
| UK Online Safety Act (edit) | 2023-10-26 | Active | Legislation | 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. | ||||
| Universal Music Group has a team dedicated to eroding fair use rights (edit) | Universal Music Group | Active | Recorded music catalog | Product | Harassment via DMCA • Erosion of rights | Universal Music Group has submitted thousands of harassing DMCA take-down requests of videos of legitimate "fair use" clips of music | |||
| User:FoulerTripod363/ User testing for mandatory paid subscription into Tado Smart Thermostat app (edit) | |||||||||
| Vizio fined by the FTC for collecting and selling user data without consumer consent (edit) | Federal Trade Commission • Vizio | 2017-02-17 | 2017-02-17 | Resolved | VIZIO Smart Televisions | Product | Privacy | VIZIO tracks Smart Television owners without consent. | |
| VMware licensing change since acquisition by Broadcom (edit) | Broadcom Inc. | 2023-11-22 | Active | VMware | Product | ||||
| VRS Sim Racing Wheel Base full torque locked behind paywall (edit) | VRS | Active | VRS Sim Racing Wheel Base | UDFP20 Wheel Base | Product | 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 (edit) | Walmart | 2025-06-13 | 2025-07-25 | Active | Onn | Onn 4K Box • Onn 4K Pro • Onn HD Stick • Chromecast 4K • Chromecast HD | Product | 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 |
| Whistle pet tracker shutdown IoT fail (edit) | Tractive • Mars Petcare • Whistle Labs | 2025-07-28 | Active | Pet tracking devices | Incident | Planned Obsolescence • Service Termination | Whistle pet trackers will cease functioning on August 31, 2025, following Tractive's acquisition of the company from Mars Petcare | ||
| Youtubes Requirement for Government ID (edit) | 2025-07-30 | Active | YouTube | Youtube | Service | Digital restrictions | YouTube is requiring Users to give their government id to verify that they are adults, otherwise Users will be locked out of content. |