Consumer Rights Wiki

178 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by gregsadetsky

11 Comments

matherial

2 hours ago

ball_of_lint

10 minutes ago

On the Bose one:

Consider if your laptop was paired to it's specific charger and would refuse to charge with any other cable or charger. Lose or break your charger and suddenly your $2000+ laptop is irreparable.

That seems obviously stupid, right? And the sort of thing that ought to be illegal? Well, the headphones are the same, just with a different looking charging cable.

sfRattan

an hour ago

Each one is a bit funny in isolation, and it's also true that the most common feedback is always unhappy feedback, but every company looking for another vein to tap for sustenance hopes observers will write off their particular incision as hyper-specific. Besides providing a place to check before doing business with a company, the Consumer Rights Wiki is about making the cumulative effect of a thousand hyper-specific cuts harder to ignore.

LelouBil

2 hours ago

I encountered a BTRFS filesystem corruption today, nothing too heavy, it got recovered by a repair (even tough I don't know what caused it, memtest is clean and ssd is also clean), but while researching about it I was surprised to see Louis Rossman's business website show up !

https://rossmanngroup.com/problems/btrfs-filesystem-corrupti...

chrysoprace

an hour ago

Louis is quite vocal about transparency for consumers and openly sharing knowledge for people to be able to do repairs themselves or even set up a competing business.

Aurornis

an hour ago

Wow, the amount of AI-generated SEO content on this website is wild. I clicked on one of the related articles and it's also hijacking my scroll so I can't scroll down to the pages of extra content underneath the article.

I don't care who's doing it, that's not cool.

efilife

43 minutes ago

he explained why he does that. In short, he was fighting to be displayed in search results by having legitimate content on the site for months, but the traffic was dying day by day and killing his business. He then asked Gemini to write him some bullshit SEO and went back to the 1st spot on google. Look for the video on his channel, it's not as bad as it looks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QF9JwtLc

I found this but keep in mind there were more videos about it. Let me leave the description of the video here:

Google delisted my business for almost a year. Professional SEO couldn't fix it, creating a new site didnt help. What finally worked was having AI rewrite my authentic content into corporate-friendly bunk. I hate that it worked. This video took me a month to make because I felt ashamed of my decision.

hmry

34 minutes ago

"The website search company sells a tool to make websites", just another entry in the looooong list of Google's conflicts of interest

eccentricwind

3 hours ago

Dear Santa, please make consumer rights true; The other entities didn't really listen.

chrysoprace

an hour ago

For those that don't know, this is an initiative started by Louis Rossmann and is largely run by a few volunteers.

a9i

2 hours ago

It is a commendable initiative, but its credibility must be maintained by applying the policies scrupulously.

It's a pity that pages cannot be created in other languages, given that anti-consumer practices also occur outside the English-speaking world.