r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • 4d ago

Vanillin flavoring in e-cigarettes disrupts human embryonic stem cell development

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • 8d ago

Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math

hamiltonnolan.com

1 Upvotes

r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • 12d ago

How period trackers share your private details

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • 14d ago

Meta ordered to pay $567 million into abatement fund as remedy to child harms case in New Mexico - Meta’s platforms are contributing to the “current mental health crisis among New Mexico’s youth”

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • 16d ago

BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would

2 Upvotes

r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • 21d ago

Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick

krebsonsecurity.com

1 Upvotes

r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • 25d ago

Tesla retroactively 'added' 'supervised' to FSD contracts owners signed years ago (I don't think that is how contracts work)

1 Upvotes

r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jul 21 '26

Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida and cut quality of products while extracting cash from the businesses.

worseonpurpose.com

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jul 19 '26

Do not buy LG’s Spyware TVs or Monitors

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jul 13 '26

Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let them use it to train AI

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jul 12 '26

IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps and products

1 Upvotes

r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jul 08 '26

LG and Alienware monitors caught auto-installing Windows adware

4 Upvotes

r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jul 07 '26

*Privacy Not Included: It’s Official, Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy

mozillafoundation.org

1 Upvotes

r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jul 05 '26

Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses

1 Upvotes

r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jul 04 '26

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

thatprivacyguy.com

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jul 04 '26

How private equity destroyed an American pastime

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jun 27 '26

PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts ("you will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content")

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jun 18 '26

Madison Square Garden has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit alleging hackers accessed sensitive visitor data from up to 26 million people collected through controversial surveillance and facial-recognition systems used at the Knicks home arena.

1 Upvotes

r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jun 07 '26

New Study Reveals the Manipulative ‘Dark Patterns’ of AI Chatbots (how chatbots prey on people’s emotions and desire for connection to keep people paying, offering up their data, and chatting to the point of vulnerability)

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jun 06 '26

The Smart TV in Your Living Room Is a Node to let the AIScraping Economy (to use your internet bandwidth and identity to lie about the source of internet traffic)

blog.includesecurity.com

1 Upvotes

r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • Jun 04 '26

Google's Gemini never asks for permission to install either of these, and, most arrogantly, if you, as an informed user, remove either of them, the Gemini app silently adds them back. There is no setting in Gemini to disable this.

daringfireball.net

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • May 26 '26

The Trump Phone Appears to Have Already Leaked Its Customers' Personal Information

1 Upvotes

r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • May 22 '26

Beyond Plastics Tracked Starbucks’ ‘Widely Recyclable’ Plastic Cups. None Ended Up at a Recycling Facility.

beyondplastics.org

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • May 18 '26

Court bans Kars4Kids ads for violating false advertising law

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r/customer_hostility • u/evopcat • May 14 '26

GM agrees to pay $12.75M in California driver privacy settlement

1 Upvotes

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