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Top articles
Smart home devices such as plugs and light switches that use the HomeKit and Thread protocols.
Samsung rolled out mandatory advertisements to Family Hub refrigerators through over-the-network software updates.
John Deere is a leading manufacturer of agricultural and heavy machinery, known for it's anti-repair stances.
Digital rights management (DRM), alternatively known as digital restrictions management, broadly refers to any kind of access control technology that is used to deliberately restrict the usage of media content or devices after the sale.
Whoop makes wearable fitness devices. Cancelling a subscription requires jumping through a lot of hoops!
Litter-Robot is a brand of automatic, self-cleaning litter boxes manufactured by Whisker.
Announcements
2026-02-17
We're starting monthly editor meetings for regular users of the wiki to meet up, socialise, and chat with the team. The meetings will be held via Zoom, and if you're interested, please email [email protected] with your wiki name, and the subject line 'Monthly Wiki hangout' to get added to the mailing list for the Zoom invite!
These meetings will be hosted at 20:00 UTC on the first Sunday of each month.
2026-01-14
Happy Birthday to us!
As hard as it is to believe, it's already been a year since the Consumer Rights Wiki was first launched (albeit under a different name - real OGs remember the Consumer Action Taskforce Wiki!).
One year on, we've got almost 1000 content articles, and the Wiki continues to grow in both quantity and quality with every passing day.
I'd like to give a huge shoutout to the Consumer Rights Wiki team - both those here on the Wiki and everyone who works to keep the Discord running. Everyone's been fantastic, and the Wiki would not be even close to where it is now without everyone's hard work. Louis remarked the other day when he found that the article had already been updated even before he covered Bose open-sourcing their SoundTouch API that he was happy 'this website will be living on... ...even if I'm not a part of it'. Fortunately he is very much still a part of the project, but it's you guys, and everyone who edits, contributes to, or uses the Wiki that make this kind of self-sustaining progress possible.
A special shoutout as well to our top contributors of the year. Despite Bythmusters' remarkable assault on the top contributors leaderboard page over the last month (Louis was disqualified due to a lot of his edits coming from bulk image imports that padded his stats - although he's done plenty of real editing too!), **AnotherConsumerRightsPerson** has come out on top of this year's leaderboard as our top contributor! Mr Pollo is comfortably in the #2 spot, and is a fantastic mod who's been with us from the very start.
There's still a lot of work to be done, both on the website and its content. To help with the website side of things, **we have created a survey:** here. We'll release the results in a few weeks along with a longer and more complete 'blog post' style post about the state of the Consumer Rights Wiki, and future plans. Please take the time to fill it out regardless of how much you use the Wiki, as we want to hear from everyone's experiences of the Wiki!
I'll wrap this up for now - here's to many more years of building up our information base, and using it to hold companies to account!
Thank you everyone,
- Keith
Wiki manager
In The News
August 2025
- Clippy the paperclip is taking over profile pics across the internet in protest of big tech – Coverage of the Clippy Campaign
July 2025
- Buy now, pay later loans will now hit credit scores — and experts think Gen Z could be at risk – FICO plans to include BNPL loans in credit scores this fall, raising flags for young and vulnerable borrowers
Want to suggest a story? Add it to the discussion page.
Also see: In the news for coverage about this project.
Consumer Tools
Ad & tracking blockers
- Pi-hole – Self-hosted network-based ad blocker.
- uBlock Origin – Efficient browser-based ad and tracker blocker.
- Adnauseum - Browser-based ad and tracker blocker built off of uBlock Origin that also clicks ads to obscure your digital fingerprint.
Anti-scam resources
- Have I Been Pwned – Check if your email/password was exposed in a breach.
- CFPB – File complaints and view alerts about financial services.
- VirusTotal / Hybrid Analysis – Scan files for potential malware.
- Triage – Online sandbox for analyzing executables.
Archival tools
- Wayback Machine – World’s largest internet archival service
- archive.today – Smaller internet archival service for unsupported IA websites (e.g: Twitter/X (frontends only), Facebook, Reddit, Paywalled Articles)
- SingleFile – Browser extension to save website EULA/privacy policy as html locally
- ArchiveBox – Self-hosted website archival tool
Corporate accountability & recalls
- Better Business Bureau (BBB) – Lookup business complaints and file your own.
- SaferProducts.gov – U.S. product recall and complaint site.
- FDA Recalls – Drug and food recall database.
Legal & complaint filing
- Consumer Reports – Independent product reviews and ratings.
- Ripoff Report – Public consumer complaint database.
- ClassAction.org – View or join consumer class-action lawsuits.
Repair & Open designs
- iFixit – Open repository of device repair instructions.
- Open Source Ecology – Open source machinery designs.
Price & product transparency
- CamelCamelCamel – Amazon price tracker to detect deceptive price drops.
- Keepa – Detailed price history and deals on Amazon products.
- TrueStar – Analyzes Amazon reviews for manipulation. [Subscription needed]
Privacy & surveillance tools
- SimpleOptOut – Direct links to opt out of data brokers.
- EasyOptOuts – Automated data broker opt-out service. [Subscription needed]
Subscription & dark pattern tracking
- Trim – Finds and cancels unwanted subscriptions.
- Goodbudget – Budgeting app with debt tracker. [Subscription needed]
- Terms of Service; Didn’t Read / PrivacySpy – Summarizes privacy policies and rates companies by trustworthiness.
- Deceptive Design – Defines, identifies, and catalogs dark patterns and deceptive design practices in various software and services.
- Dark Pattern Games – A game review website devoted to helping you find games that don't use psychological tricks to manipulate you into becoming an addicted gamer.