You are one of the few RUclips creators that has ever bothered to interact with me personally in the comments, and I just wanted to say how much I appreciate that as well as all the work you do on behalf of all consumers. I love this project, and can't wait to get started on it.
Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind words! I need everyone's help for this to have any hope of becoming a genuine success. I am grateful for any contributions anyone can make towards the goal of making this a successful library of _"you will own nothing"_ anti ownership anti repair anti privacy consumer screwery. *HOW YOU CAN HELP:* wiki.rossmanngroup.com/index.php/How_to_help Guidelines to create articles that live up to the standards we wish to hold ourselves to are here: wiki.rossmanngroup.com/index.php/Moderator_Guidelines Mission statement is here: wiki.rossmanngroup.com/index.php/Mission_statement
@@rossmanngroupIf I were to suggest to the producer of a news channel to consider interviewing you about what your trying to accomplish here, why and how others can help. Would you consider such a thing? I can only make the suggestion. There is no guarantee that they will actually cover this news story. They do pick and choose their topics of course. Id like to help this cause of yours and for me personally this is the way that I could help the most initially. The RUclips channel is slightly bigger than yours with 2 59 M subs with a active user base. Around 30 k concurrent during each live show.
@@kevinerbs2778 No hero wants to be called one, but he actually does influence people, where influencers realistically are just sophisticated sales people.
@@Gumardee_coins_and_banknotesIt’s a crap word, because the entire idea of “influencer” is just worshipping a FALSE IDOL. Louis is humble man, who understands what Chuck D meant when he said, “DON’T BELIEVE DA HYPE!”
Moderation team are getting paid just as much as I am for moderating and cosplaying as a sysadmin; NOTHING! This has no donation button, no advertising, no sponsors, and no path to generating revenue. Therefore, no money to pay people. This is purely driven by people who are sick and tired of being fucked over and ripped off. I rely on people being driven by that energy rather than driven by a paycheck to contribute to this. People will email me stories they want me to cover, but that makes me a gatekeeper. If this becomes popular and anyone can contribute without even having to make an account, and the facts are checked by a team of dedicated people that removes me as the gatekeeper from people having their stories told. When some random dude makes a website, it's a random dude making a website, but if a website that has existed for 15 years with incredibly high page rank from a 2 million subscriber RUclipsr makes a site that is regularly promoted, that means their stories get to get told without having to wait for me to respond to an email or deem it worthy of a RUclips video. I want to take the reputation that this channel and this website and this company and everything I've been doing has generated over time and allow anybody to utilize my platform to tell authoritative stories of consumer fuckery as long as they meet the guidelines and can cite their sources, dot their eyes, Cross their teas and meet the community guidelines and requirements for inclusion, meaning you have to have your sources cited very well.
@@rossmanngroup Oh god yeah, I know that dance. I mean it though, I hope this project is successful. I´m on the other side of the world, so I´ll check it out tomorrow when I can think straight again.
@@freecat1278 I hate to break this to you, but anyone on Trump’s cabinet is gonna be ON THE TAKE FROM CORPORATIONS, THAT DON’T HAVE YOUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART.
So many times trying to decide on buying something, Standing in the store trying to look it up, google reviews, usually give up because its so hard to find reliable information. What an awesome idea.
they did its called the BBB as a business you pay them a fee and they pretend to help consumers! and by paying a fee it makes your business seem legit! but thats old school now its all paid for good reviews!
If I could make a suggestion, maybe have an area for 'greenlisted' companies as well. Companies that have no examples of exploitative or generally shitty business practices. Carrot goes well with stick.
I would love to see a push towards businesses having to be opt-in for their privacy invading profit schemes over hidden opt-out bullshit that they constantly move the settings for or "rename" the button so that everybody gets opted in after an update.
used the front door and just walked out, burning the bridge behind you as you went? even if it hurts you in doing that? After all, there businesses and maen goul is make money out of you, and removing from them will change there minds on what customer is? But the problem with that is the working is full of sheep, all just following one another in there own little worlds?
I've been watching since your board repair days. Just wanted to say thank you for all the work you have done and continue to do! Even when you think you've failed you still have made an impact on many of us out here. I love your ideas and I hope a lot of people can get behind it.
You have single-handedly changed my whole perspective on lobbying. It shouldn’t be considered radical to demand basic respect at this point from these damn companies! Take care.
Louis, you did not fail. You got many people like myself to repair my own stuff. From my old MacBook Air to my radio. Louis, you are doing great. Just keep at it.
With people such as Lina Khan, who have been able to stand up for the American consumer, getting wiped away by corporate bureaucracy, it's more important than ever for us to work together and demand better. I stand behind you and all the other cadre.
im a 23 year old and have been following you since i was 17. have no idea how i came across your page, but i must say you have inspired me a lot to protect my own, and families consumer rights.
Just clicked through 15-20 articles and the main page. This is truly a monumental contribution to humanity, Louis🙏 Been following you since 2017 or 2018 I think, always appreciate your candid videos, talking through your process and giving context, but more than anything, you actually Stepping Up To The Plate to take action!
This is an amazing idea, and even if it doesn't work out for some reason, I don't think I'm alone in saying that we truly appreciate the effort you have always put into helping us stay informed.
I'm a software dev, if you need something from the technical side, give me a shout. I've love to help. This stuff is also big hit/topic with us libertarian types. Thanks so much for everything you do in this fight, Louis!
This seems huge, especially from the point of being a really easy hub for information for activists! I have a question, though, which is - is this going to cover general principles and techniques that businesses use and apply worldwide? Or is it going to be specifically tied to current US law? The reason for asking is that the technical details of consumer protections are quite different in, for example EU countries. An example of this is that in the EU, there is no equivalent to the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act and companies can invalidate warranties for any reason they feel like, _but_ consumers have a set of "statutory rights" that are separate to the warranty and that the company has to honor.
I appreciate you and Clinton and will support your new venture. If you think parts are difficult to get now you should have been around in the 70's. Back then there were only 2 suppliers for a city as big as Seattle and we didn't have the Internet. I got my first transistor radio in 1970 and I was excited about it. I ended up getting 2 degrees in "radio/TV repair". Well actually the second one was electronic service technician. Same place, same building with just a name change. And TV tubes at your local store had dried up. In Seattle we had 1 RCA supplier and 1 ECG place. Then around 10 years later the ECG supplier closed. It got so hard to get parts that I changed to auto repair.
This is such a great idea. The amount of times i bought something only to hear later what kind of bullshit is going on behind the scenes is actually scary. Im excited to see where thus will be going
I love the fact that you decided to make this a zero profit project. Entirely driven by people's passion. That's the kind of thing that can have a uniquely powerful effect, the kind that can't be taken away through money.
Lois - I had the same problem. It was cold and suddenly I had an other cat in my house. But I found someone, a little family and now they have this cat. This house-cats can only life with humans, so possibly you try to find someone for this cat.
I'm 59 years old now, my dad was killed by a drunk driver when I was 18. He loved to repair things, he would not understand today's mindset of sheeple, but goddamn would he love the technology!
I LOVE this project! Government is not the solution. Excessive government power sold to the corporations for campaign donations is the source of the problem! I'll send you examples of companies doing bad stuff! Thanks for doing this! :)
Hi Louis so happy to see that you are not wasting any time to organise this and make it official. Plus I have to say you will definitely know that it’s been successful , when you hear a reference by one of The ( well actually ) people about how somebody didn’t check this C.A.T webpage and that’s why they were F -ed by some company. Not only do I wish you all the best of success with this I have already booked marked the Link in my laptop so I can add to it myself whenever I stumble across anything that needs to be posted.
You're friggin awesome man, thank you for being such a manic and forceful energy behind the sentiment of consumer protection when few else will. Best of luck with making this a comprehensive and endlessly useful wiki
Finally, you are lifting some heavy weight instead of just talking. Projects like this have the potential to make real changes in the industry, internationally. Should have been done 20 years ago. I approve of this effort.
You ate the best tech youtuber I have ever heard about and you do the right thing. It is rare to see someone so actively trying to make the world a better place,
when i was still in high school in 2014, i really wanted to start a repair business. then i found ypur channel and wanted it even more. you have my full support louis, so that one day i can realize that dream of getting into the board repair business.
So many companies use technology to hide or distort how bad their offers are, but it should be our greatest advantage. Using it to spread information and hold them accountable ourselves is exactly what we need!
Awesome project Louis, the world's corporations have more power than God in the world of consumers, once upon a time we have millions of smaller companies that had some integrity, that is long gone. Miss the bike riding chatting streams, happy you are in a better place and doing well!! Give the kitties a pat for me!!
Thank you so much Louis!! I have loads of reporting to do on scroogle and microshaft, it's almost as if all the screenshots I've been taking over my computing decades have been given a major purpose! Can't wait to put them to great use!
I would love to help you with this! I’m already a part of CAT nation. I’ve been a longtime lurker fan. Thank you for the opportunity to help you and others through this process. Thank you for being you. When I first found your show I would listen to your rants as you fixed computers and then sometimes I would listen to you as I fell asleep. Which was also awesome. I also love planes and so repair and plane talk together, and finding random things that hold shapes together- well, that’s awesome, and I’ve recently heard of another group that does this. It all just sounds FUN more than anything. And oh yeah, USEFUL. Thank you for your offer. I accept!
Ive had a similar idea. Main issue is manpower, but i love that you've taken the initiative. One day, we should have a browser extension that warns users about these companies. Your wiki would be amazing to that.
shoutout to you Louis, i appreciate you sir, the time u take to wake people up about getting fkd. like we don't own our house, we lease yearly, same with our cars. this country has done a 180 on what it was built on.
This is a great idea and I know this will take off . I think the average person may not care, but a wiki like this will be perfect for journalist and for other people to spread the word to normies. As well as publicly shame companies. I hope you assemble an awesome team of volunteers to make this happen!
Louis, I can see your project being something that is not just American, but global. There are several companies in my country that are taking anti-consumer attitudes and there is no centralized place to identify which companies they are, and also to know the good companies and product lines, the only way to make pressure against these companies is hurting the profit, there is no other way. Please, get ready and host this site somewhere where you will not be the target of lawsuits. Another thing, I think it would be interesting to have a score for each company, taking into account the size of the product line and also the niches in which it operates. It was something that crossed my mind a few days ago (to have a centralized place to see who is against and who is in favor of the right to repair), I thought "wow, what if Louis headed this" and you came up with this today, I am so happy. I can't stand these companies making disposable and irreparable products anymore and the worst thing: everything is starting to be rented and you no longer own anything.
I know you took a couple calls with my trying to get MacBooks you didn't support at the time, but I definitely will be following a lot of this and reporting such things where I can. Thank you for taking the first step.
Another good data point to track is the newest, or latest model vehicle you can own from every manufacturer that doesn’t have tracking and data collection in it. And other such useful information for consumers. Hopefully Louis sees this, or someone working on the wiki does Thank you Louis and associates for all the work you are doing and will do, to make the world a better place.
It would be nice to have an easily accessible data base of every TOS that has been issued over the past 10 years for all the big tech companies and social platforms. Use some AI to get comparison charts of what is actually changed it each incremental iteration of the TOS's. I once started collecting Apple's a few years ago and realized how quickly they try to disappear any old TOS's once a new one is issued. The amount of knowledge that disappears daily or is retroactively changed without any footnote or documentation of it is kinda wild.There may be places to access them that I do not know about so I really appreciate the work you are doing to make them easily accessible to people.
Wow, things have changed. Most people buy without even thinking of long term use. The old school thinkers like me always look at something to last 50 years. That is why companies get away with these terms. It will be a struggle to get a big load of people on board. But I hope you can do it. Keep doing what you do.......
On why/how people can not care about an issue and/or throw shade at people that try to talk to them about an issue until it affects them personally: Sympathy is when someone understands another person's emotional state because they've had a common experience and have experienced that emotional state themselves. Empathy is the ability to understand another person's emotional state without actually going through the same thing themselves. It's like an emulator for emotions. Most people aren't capable of empathy. Some people aren't even capable of sympathy. Some people are capable of these, but they can't bear the burden of it and so they develop self-deluding tactics like throwing shade or finding excuses to invalidate others to spare themselves from caring. This is an energy conservation tactic, like laziness, that kicks in when we start to burn out and can become a habit, or even a personality trait. The issues you bring up are so wide spread that they effect everyone eventually. It would benefit everyone that is on the receiving end of consumer exploitation to get behind any effort to make improvements here. But they have to become aware of the problem first. They have to be able to contextualize the problem, and have the humility to admit that they've been cheated. Sadly, many are just too worn down to figure these things out for themselves, or even to able to accept it when it's pointed out to them. Thank you for trying to break through to people on these issues. Even if this is all just a way to blow off steam after having dealt with these issues yourself for years, I think you are having an overall positive impact. I'll keep following the effort and pitch in when I can. These people have p*ssed in our collective cornflakes for far too long.
Didn’t notice a new video came out. Just wanted (again) to say thank you for everything you do against these evil corps. Anytime I have spare I’ll be sure to contribute to the wiki! I’d be happy to register to if this means there can be audit trails for what is edited by who.
I noticed you (or somebody) has already provided an article on Ubisoft shutting down "The Crew" after the terms of the sale. It's ok to deactivate multiplayer after a decade or so (server space isn't cheap, especially an entire franchise) but my biggest point of contention with this was that physical copies cannot easily be resold as the game ITSELF now has practically zero value. Nobody should expect a CD or DVD to have an artificial expiry date.
I cannot wait to use this website is going to be so helpful. I wish there were more wikis on companies for stuff like this especially in the media industry that constantly gaslight consumers that X company is fine as they take $20,000 to say that.
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You are one of the few RUclips creators that has ever bothered to interact with me personally in the comments, and I just wanted to say how much I appreciate that as well as all the work you do on behalf of all consumers. I love this project, and can't wait to get started on it.
Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind words! I need everyone's help for this to have any hope of becoming a genuine success. I am grateful for any contributions anyone can make towards the goal of making this a successful library of _"you will own nothing"_ anti ownership anti repair anti privacy consumer screwery.
*HOW YOU CAN HELP:* wiki.rossmanngroup.com/index.php/How_to_help
Guidelines to create articles that live up to the standards we wish to hold ourselves to are here: wiki.rossmanngroup.com/index.php/Moderator_Guidelines
Mission statement is here: wiki.rossmanngroup.com/index.php/Mission_statement
Hell yess!!
Pin of gratitude!!! can't wait until he decided to use his 2 mill followers to go somewhere to vote or protest.
@@rossmanngroupIf I were to suggest to the producer of a news channel to consider interviewing you about what your trying to accomplish here, why and how others can help. Would you consider such a thing?
I can only make the suggestion. There is no guarantee that they will actually cover this news story. They do pick and choose their topics of course.
Id like to help this cause of yours and for me personally this is the way that I could help the most initially.
The RUclips channel is slightly bigger than yours with 2 59 M subs with a active user base. Around 30 k concurrent during each live show.
Seriously, good luck with this. We desperately need better consumer protection rights!
Finally a RUclips/Social media person who's actually worthy of the word 'Influencer'.
Lol he hates that word.
@@kevinerbs2778 No hero wants to be called one, but he actually does influence people, where influencers realistically are just sophisticated sales people.
@kevinerbs2778 it's a crap word because it is crap people who are called influencers. They should be called trash. Looking at you Logans LOL.
@@Gumardee_coins_and_banknotesIt’s a crap word, because the entire idea of “influencer” is just worshipping a FALSE IDOL. Louis is humble man, who understands what Chuck D meant when he said, “DON’T BELIEVE DA HYPE!”
He's just trying to clean his little corner of the world :)
No accounts? Moderation team paid by you? No ads to cope with costs?
Allright, I appreciate the spirit. Good luck!
Moderation team are getting paid just as much as I am for moderating and cosplaying as a sysadmin; NOTHING!
This has no donation button, no advertising, no sponsors, and no path to generating revenue. Therefore, no money to pay people. This is purely driven by people who are sick and tired of being fucked over and ripped off. I rely on people being driven by that energy rather than driven by a paycheck to contribute to this.
People will email me stories they want me to cover, but that makes me a gatekeeper. If this becomes popular and anyone can contribute without even having to make an account, and the facts are checked by a team of dedicated people that removes me as the gatekeeper from people having their stories told. When some random dude makes a website, it's a random dude making a website, but if a website that has existed for 15 years with incredibly high page rank from a 2 million subscriber RUclipsr makes a site that is regularly promoted, that means their stories get to get told without having to wait for me to respond to an email or deem it worthy of a RUclips video. I want to take the reputation that this channel and this website and this company and everything I've been doing has generated over time and allow anybody to utilize my platform to tell authoritative stories of consumer fuckery as long as they meet the guidelines and can cite their sources, dot their eyes, Cross their teas and meet the community guidelines and requirements for inclusion, meaning you have to have your sources cited very well.
I must be dreaming.
@@rossmanngroup But Louis, it is a fair question, how are you going to cope with costs when this thing grows?
@@rossmanngroup Oh god yeah, I know that dance.
I mean it though, I hope this project is successful. I´m on the other side of the world, so I´ll check it out tomorrow when I can think straight again.
@@Thiccolo We'll start a meme token duh
I pledge my support to House Rossmann, sir
Yes, he should be on Trump's cabinet.
Yes ME TOO
@@freecat1278na, don't do this shit pls
@@freecat1278 Louis has a distaste for ass kissing and loyalty oaths that would be required
@@freecat1278 I hate to break this to you, but anyone on Trump’s cabinet is gonna be ON THE TAKE FROM CORPORATIONS, THAT DON’T HAVE YOUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART.
You mean tech companies are not queuing to sponsor this site. Shocking. 😂😂😂
You are the greatest Louis.
I'm loving this wave of accountability thats been hitting companies in the past year
Boing 😊 Nestle 😊
God Bless Louis Rossmann. A true populist for the people.
Amen I love watching him go off on a rant. I do like this idea for sure though.
So many times trying to decide on buying something, Standing in the store trying to look it up, google reviews, usually give up because its so hard to find reliable information. What an awesome idea.
yeah the internet has been ruined. the last few in-store attempted googles have all turned up AI-generated nonsense
@@djrenault Oh god wasn't even thinking of AI but yeah that too..
This is a complete game changer!
I will 100% help
hell yeah, cant wait to have a comprehensive resource to comb through when i need to buy a product i don't want to screw me over
This is one initiative that is so good that people will say later, "How come we didn't think of it before?"
they did its called the BBB as a business you pay them a fee and they pretend to help consumers! and by paying a fee it makes your business seem legit! but thats old school now its all paid for good reviews!
If I could make a suggestion, maybe have an area for 'greenlisted' companies as well. Companies that have no examples of exploitative or generally shitty business practices. Carrot goes well with stick.
Yes yes yes! Everyone always says "don't use xyz", but they never tell you to use abc instead.
Given that it's a wiki that anyone can edit, that could be a section you start and provide a couple of examples.
I like this a lot. Companies who vow towards proper consumer protection
This would be plenty helpful, I agree. I would love to know about the good ones from the bad.
This could be like the website 'AlternativeTo', which is for software.
I would love to see a push towards businesses having to be opt-in for their privacy invading profit schemes over hidden opt-out bullshit that they constantly move the settings for or "rename" the button so that everybody gets opted in after an update.
used the front door and just walked out, burning the bridge behind you as you went? even if it hurts you in doing that? After all, there businesses and maen goul is make money out of you, and removing from them will change there minds on what customer is? But the problem with that is the working is full of sheep, all just following one another in there own little worlds?
Yep I'm In! I live in Portugal! And i have a long list of what i call 'Institute of Crap design and Bullshit Terms of Conditions' So yes I'm In!
Fellow Portuguese here! I'm really curious as to what is in your list. Let's contribute to CAT!!
I've been watching since your board repair days. Just wanted to say thank you for all the work you have done and continue to do! Even when you think you've failed you still have made an impact on many of us out here. I love your ideas and I hope a lot of people can get behind it.
You have single-handedly changed my whole perspective on lobbying. It shouldn’t be considered radical to demand basic respect at this point from these damn companies! Take care.
Only one dislike, incredible, really shows how much support we all have for this, you deserve it man.
Probably Sony
Louis, you did not fail. You got many people like myself to repair my own stuff. From my old MacBook Air to my radio. Louis, you are doing great. Just keep at it.
With people such as Lina Khan, who have been able to stand up for the American consumer, getting wiped away by corporate bureaucracy, it's more important than ever for us to work together and demand better. I stand behind you and all the other cadre.
you’re an incredible human being for taking the move to make something that should have been beyond standardized over a decade ago. thank you.
i should also be thanking your moderation team in advance, thank you guys as well
im a 23 year old and have been following you since i was 17. have no idea how i came across your page, but i must say you have inspired me a lot to protect my own, and families consumer rights.
Just clicked through 15-20 articles and the main page. This is truly a monumental contribution to humanity, Louis🙏
Been following you since 2017 or 2018 I think, always appreciate your candid videos, talking through your process and giving context, but more than anything, you actually Stepping Up To The Plate to take action!
don't even need to watch the video, thumbnail and louis rossman automatically makes me go yes i'm in.
Absolutely amazing project! Thank you, Louis for starting it!
This is an amazing idea, and even if it doesn't work out for some reason, I don't think I'm alone in saying that we truly appreciate the effort you have always put into helping us stay informed.
I'm a software dev, if you need something from the technical side, give me a shout. I've love to help. This stuff is also big hit/topic with us libertarian types. Thanks so much for everything you do in this fight, Louis!
This seems huge, especially from the point of being a really easy hub for information for activists! I have a question, though, which is - is this going to cover general principles and techniques that businesses use and apply worldwide? Or is it going to be specifically tied to current US law?
The reason for asking is that the technical details of consumer protections are quite different in, for example EU countries. An example of this is that in the EU, there is no equivalent to the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act and companies can invalidate warranties for any reason they feel like, _but_ consumers have a set of "statutory rights" that are separate to the warranty and that the company has to honor.
Whenever, whenever, as Shakira would have said.
Excellent idea. Indexed transparency is needed for this. Maybe even a book on this 👀
Protect this man at all cost ❤
I appreciate you and Clinton and will support your new venture.
If you think parts are difficult to get now you should have been around in the 70's. Back then there were only 2 suppliers for a city as big as Seattle and we didn't have the Internet.
I got my first transistor radio in 1970 and I was excited about it. I ended up getting 2 degrees in "radio/TV repair". Well actually the second one was electronic service technician. Same place, same building with just a name change.
And TV tubes at your local store had dried up.
In Seattle we had 1 RCA supplier and 1 ECG place. Then around 10 years later the ECG supplier closed.
It got so hard to get parts that I changed to auto repair.
This is SO necessary I can't believe it's not happening all over the world. Hopefully the spark we need, THANKS.
this needs to be. every single person in the us and kanada needs to be in on it. thank you Louis
This is such a great idea. The amount of times i bought something only to hear later what kind of bullshit is going on behind the scenes is actually scary. Im excited to see where thus will be going
Thank you, Louis. Really hope something good comes of this, not just for US citizens, but also the rest of the world.
I love the fact that you decided to make this a zero profit project. Entirely driven by people's passion. That's the kind of thing that can have a uniquely powerful effect, the kind that can't be taken away through money.
Lois - I had the same problem. It was cold and suddenly I had an other cat in my house. But I found someone, a little family and now they have this cat.
This house-cats can only life with humans, so possibly you try to find someone for this cat.
Thank you for making such an important resource Louis!
I'm so happy, so overjoyed, I'm literally sitting here laughing and crying at the same. I just felt hope for the first time in so long.
I'm 59 years old now, my dad was killed by a drunk driver when I was 18. He loved to repair things, he would not understand today's mindset of sheeple, but goddamn would he love the technology!
I never write comments, but you are a real-life hero. Thank you.
Waw Louis your at the top of my page tonight you have not been there for a while . Can’t beat a good ole truth rant
Rossman thank you for everything you’ve done for consumers over the years advocating for us.
I LOVE this project! Government is not the solution. Excessive government power sold to the corporations for campaign donations is the source of the problem! I'll send you examples of companies doing bad stuff! Thanks for doing this! :)
Hi Louis so happy to see that you are not wasting any time to organise this and make it official. Plus I have to say you will definitely know that it’s been successful , when you hear a reference by one of The ( well actually ) people about how somebody didn’t check this C.A.T webpage and that’s why they were F -ed by some company. Not only do I wish you all the best of success with this I have already booked marked the Link in my laptop so I can add to it myself whenever I stumble across anything that needs to be posted.
You're friggin awesome man, thank you for being such a manic and forceful energy behind the sentiment of consumer protection when few else will. Best of luck with making this a comprehensive and endlessly useful wiki
Finally, you are lifting some heavy weight instead of just talking. Projects like this have the potential to make real changes in the industry, internationally. Should have been done 20 years ago. I approve of this effort.
You ate the best tech youtuber I have ever heard about and you do the right thing. It is rare to see someone so actively trying to make the world a better place,
This project has everything-strong team, great concept, and early adopter perks. Secured my ADX today!
when i was still in high school in 2014, i really wanted to start a repair business. then i found ypur channel and wanted it even more. you have my full support louis, so that one day i can realize that dream of getting into the board repair business.
So many companies use technology to hide or distort how bad their offers are, but it should be our greatest advantage. Using it to spread information and hold them accountable ourselves is exactly what we need!
Awesome project Louis, the world's corporations have more power than God in the world of consumers, once upon a time we have millions of smaller companies that had some integrity, that is long gone.
Miss the bike riding chatting streams, happy you are in a better place and doing well!! Give the kitties a pat for me!!
4:11. General enshitificaton😂. One of the greatest descriptions I’ve heard in a long time
Thank you so much Louis!! I have loads of reporting to do on scroogle and microshaft, it's almost as if all the screenshots I've been taking over my computing decades have been given a major purpose! Can't wait to put them to great use!
God bless you and the folks helping you!!!
This is a fantastic idea, and I am SO onboard for it. Consumers... UNITE ❣️
Thank you, for your values work and persistence, let's build the army now!!!
Right to Repair should be in your Constitution Love you Louis Keep being you We need this, We will Help
I'm rooting for you so hard. You go man
I actually have goosebumps I am so excited
Godspeed.
We need all the help we can get.
you are and always will be an amazing human being and one of the few that are really fighting for consumers throughout their career
Nobody but Louis would name his database "CAT" Consumer Action Taskforce.
❤🐈❤
Now when people ask me for product recommendations I will be sending them to this wiki to research the companies. Thanks for all your work!
I would love to help you with this! I’m already a part of CAT nation. I’ve been a longtime lurker fan. Thank you for the opportunity to help you and others through this process. Thank you for being you. When I first found your show I would listen to your rants as you fixed computers and then sometimes I would listen to you as I fell asleep. Which was also awesome. I also love planes and so repair and plane talk together, and finding random things that hold shapes together- well, that’s awesome, and I’ve recently heard of another group that does this. It all just sounds FUN more than anything. And oh yeah, USEFUL.
Thank you for your offer. I accept!
Ive had a similar idea. Main issue is manpower, but i love that you've taken the initiative.
One day, we should have a browser extension that warns users about these companies. Your wiki would be amazing to that.
I very rarely comment on videos, but this one is for the algorithm. Hope as many people as possible will see this!
Thank you!!!
Glad to see you shine so much for all to see the shadows of life.
shoutout to you Louis, i appreciate you sir, the time u take to wake people up about getting fkd. like we don't own our house, we lease yearly, same with our cars. this country has done a 180 on what it was built on.
Thank you for all you do buddy. You’re giving voice to the voiceless
YT hasn't shown me your videos in a while - I'm glad they chose to show me this one!
This is a great idea and I know this will take off . I think the average person may not care, but a wiki like this will be perfect for journalist and for other people to spread the word to normies. As well as publicly shame companies. I hope you assemble an awesome team of volunteers to make this happen!
we need people like you in government!
FOX will call him woke and that'll be the end of him.
This is great, i hope this gets the attention it deserves and more. Thank you Louis
30 second into the video and I'm in! this is AWESOME!
I can't understate just how lucky we are to have a guy like Louis on our side
for someone allegedly high on illicit substances, louis's rants are onto something
A treasure - wishing him good health
Louis, I can see your project being something that is not just American, but global. There are several companies in my country that are taking anti-consumer attitudes and there is no centralized place to identify which companies they are, and also to know the good companies and product lines, the only way to make pressure against these companies is hurting the profit, there is no other way.
Please, get ready and host this site somewhere where you will not be the target of lawsuits.
Another thing, I think it would be interesting to have a score for each company, taking into account the size of the product line and also the niches in which it operates.
It was something that crossed my mind a few days ago (to have a centralized place to see who is against and who is in favor of the right to repair), I thought "wow, what if Louis headed this" and you came up with this today, I am so happy. I can't stand these companies making disposable and irreparable products anymore and the worst thing: everything is starting to be rented and you no longer own anything.
Aww, Clinton. Louis's step cat is cute too.
I know you took a couple calls with my trying to get MacBooks you didn't support at the time, but I definitely will be following a lot of this and reporting such things where I can. Thank you for taking the first step.
Thank you for this valuable service. I made an account and will do my best to support you. Louis, you are a hero!
If anyone can pull this off, it is you. Godspeed
Brilliant idea. I'm in. Not sure how I'm going to contribute, but I'll back this as much as I can.
You rock, dude. You are doing great and important work for everyone.
Another good data point to track is the newest, or latest model vehicle you can own from every manufacturer that doesn’t have tracking and data collection in it. And other such useful information for consumers.
Hopefully Louis sees this, or someone working on the wiki does
Thank you Louis and associates for all the work you are doing and will do, to make the world a better place.
It would be nice to have an easily accessible data base of every TOS that has been issued over the past 10 years for all the big tech companies and social platforms. Use some AI to get comparison charts of what is actually changed it each incremental iteration of the TOS's. I once started collecting Apple's a few years ago and realized how quickly they try to disappear any old TOS's once a new one is issued. The amount of knowledge that disappears daily or is retroactively changed without any footnote or documentation of it is kinda wild.There may be places to access them that I do not know about so I really appreciate the work you are doing to make them easily accessible to people.
Thank you Louis!!!
Louis I will definatly support this. Churr
Wow, things have changed. Most people buy without even thinking of long term use. The old school thinkers like me always look at something to last 50 years. That is why companies get away with these terms. It will be a struggle to get a big load of people on board. But I hope you can do it. Keep doing what you do.......
On why/how people can not care about an issue and/or throw shade at people that try to talk to them about an issue until it affects them personally:
Sympathy is when someone understands another person's emotional state because they've had a common experience and have experienced that emotional state themselves.
Empathy is the ability to understand another person's emotional state without actually going through the same thing themselves. It's like an emulator for emotions.
Most people aren't capable of empathy. Some people aren't even capable of sympathy.
Some people are capable of these, but they can't bear the burden of it and so they develop self-deluding tactics like throwing shade or finding excuses to invalidate others to spare themselves from caring. This is an energy conservation tactic, like laziness, that kicks in when we start to burn out and can become a habit, or even a personality trait.
The issues you bring up are so wide spread that they effect everyone eventually. It would benefit everyone that is on the receiving end of consumer exploitation to get behind any effort to make improvements here.
But they have to become aware of the problem first. They have to be able to contextualize the problem, and have the humility to admit that they've been cheated. Sadly, many are just too worn down to figure these things out for themselves, or even to able to accept it when it's pointed out to them.
Thank you for trying to break through to people on these issues. Even if this is all just a way to blow off steam after having dealt with these issues yourself for years, I think you are having an overall positive impact.
I'll keep following the effort and pitch in when I can. These people have p*ssed in our collective cornflakes for far too long.
Didn’t notice a new video came out. Just wanted (again) to say thank you for everything you do against these evil corps. Anytime I have spare I’ll be sure to contribute to the wiki! I’d be happy to register to if this means there can be audit trails for what is edited by who.
I noticed you (or somebody) has already provided an article on Ubisoft shutting down "The Crew" after the terms of the sale. It's ok to deactivate multiplayer after a decade or so (server space isn't cheap, especially an entire franchise) but my biggest point of contention with this was that physical copies cannot easily be resold as the game ITSELF now has practically zero value. Nobody should expect a CD or DVD to have an artificial expiry date.
I cannot wait to use this website is going to be so helpful. I wish there were more wikis on companies for stuff like this especially in the media industry that constantly gaslight consumers that X company is fine as they take $20,000 to say that.
Excellent! Let's do this!
You've inspired me to create my own home server and own my shit again. I'm in.
Good luck Louis. We all wish you success
Keep going louis you are awesome! Its so refreshing knowing there are people out there fighting this dystopian bullshit
Hopefully this will wake most people up to how ownership is being eroded, and also activate them to fight against it.
Just joined the Adaxum presale-this is a project that stands out from the crowd.
amazing idea and this would really change everything because you can just look up the companies before buying and anyone can go and contribute