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[CAT] Consumer Action Taskforce - Halp build this wiki documenting anti-consumer practices

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Figured this would resonate with people here and have some overlap with this community.

“The idea behind this is that we want to log every single instance of a company taking part in one of these anti-ownership practices where they deceive you, where they take away your ability to have privacy, where they take away your ability to repair what you own, where they take away your ability to say you own what you own.”

Video Explanation: Consumer Action Taskforce: EXPOSE EXPLOITATION & HOLD COMPANIES ACCOUNTABLE!

Work in Progress Wiki: CAT Consumer Action Taskforce Wiki

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This is the complement of the BifL (buy it for life) communites. Here we call out products (tech and non-tech) that:

  • are designed to fail early
  • feature anti-repair tactics (booby traps, self-destruction mechanisms, circuit boards submerged in silicon or plastic, denied documentation access)
  • are designed to make you needlessly dependant on an unsustainable proprietary service (typically in the cloud), which risks:
    ① remote kill switches where a supplier pulls the plug on singled-out individuals (e.g. Amazon sabotaging service to your thermostat, doorbell, vaccuum, etc whenever you have a billing dispute),
    ② the company disappearing, or ③ the company deciding to decommission a server and boot everyone who depends on it.

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