E-Bike Industry Blames Consumers For Fires In Effort To Undermine ‘Right To...
Countless companies and industries enjoy making up scary stories when it comes to justifying their opposition to making it easier to repair your own tech. Apple claims that empowering consumers and...
View ArticleMozilla: Modern Cars Are A Privacy Shitshow
Mozilla’s latest *Privacy Not Included report isn’t subtle when it comes to calling out the shortcomings of modern, internet-connected vehicles: All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not...
View ArticleCalifornia Set To Pass ‘Right To Repair’ Reform With Help From… Apple?
California is poised to be the third state in the U.S. (behind New York and Minnesota) to pass “right to repair” legislation after the state’s Right to Repair Act SB 244 passed 50–0 vote in the...
View ArticleThe Enshittification Of Streaming Continues As Amazon Starts Charging Prime...
Thanks to industry consolidation and saturated market growth, the streaming industry has started behaving much like the traditional cable giants they once disrupted. As with most industries suffering...
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Bloomberg Lazily Helps Telecom Lobby Seed The Press With Bullshit Claims...
With the Biden FCC now having a voting majority, the telecom industry is clearly worried about the agency’s plans to restore popular net neutrality rules stripped away by the Trump administration. To...
View ArticleFCC Wants Consumers To Get Refunds For Annoying Cable TV Contract Blackouts
For decades now, cable TV has been plagued by programming contract feuds that routinely end with users losing access to TV programming they pay for. Basically, media companies will demand a rate hike...
View ArticleGoogle Supports Oregon ‘Right To Repair’ Reform
Big tech companies have long attempted to monopolize repair options to boost their profits, whether we’re talking about tractors, phones, or game consoles. But in recent years companies like Apple and...
View ArticleCable Giants Insist That Forcing Them To Make Cancellations Easier Violates...
Neither the FCC nor FTC has a particularly good track record of standing up to broadband and cable giants when it comes to their longstanding track record of anticompetitive behavior, price gouging, or...
View ArticleCable Companies, Automakers Try To Derail FTC, FCC Quest To Kill Misleading Fees
For decades now, airlines, hotels, cable companies, banks and a long list of other companies have bilked U.S. consumers out of billions of dollars annually via bullshit fees that unfairly jack up the...
View ArticleData Brokers Help Spam Chemo Patient With Cremation Services Because That’s...
Every few weeks for the last fifteen years there’s been a massive scandal involving some company, telecom, data broker, or app maker over-collecting your detailed personal location data, failing to...
View ArticleHP Tries Desperately To Make ‘Printer As A Subscription’ A Thing
When last we checked in with Hewlett Packard (HP), the company had just been sued (for the second time) for crippling customer printers if owners attempt to use cheaper, third-party printer cartridges....
View ArticleAT&T’s Being Weirdly Cagey About A Major Data Breach Impacting 73 Million...
AT&T is under fire after a hacker last month posted the personal information (names, addresses, phone numbers, and social security numbers) of roughly 73 million customers to the open web. Troy...
View Article30 States Considering ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms in 2024
Oregon recently became the seventh state to pass “right to repair” legislation making it easier, cheaper, and more convenient to repair technology you own. The bill’s passage came on the heels of...
View ArticleThe Future Of Streaming TV: More Pointless Mergers And Making It Harder To...
Major TV providers lost another 5 million paying TV subscribers last year, as users increasingly jump from fat and expensive cable bundles, to streaming. At the same time, a lot of the executives and...
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