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I Will Never Respect A Website
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Consumer Reports unveils 'Consumer Finance AI Standard' a first-of-its-kind framework defining what consumers are owed from AI-powered financial products
Washington, DC – Consumer Reports today published the Consumer Finance AI Standard, a first-of-its-kind framework defining the rights, protections, and design practices consumers are owed…
Consumer Rights Wiki - Anti-Consumer Practices Database
The community-built wiki documenting anti-ownership, anti-consumer practices ranging from right-to-repair restrictions, planned obsolescence, subscription traps, & digital rights issues.
Substack Writers Concerned as Subscriptions ‘Plummet’ Due to Follow Feature
Substack writers are expressing their concerns about the platform’s following feature on social media, which some argue is suppressing their subscription growth.

Introduction to the Journal of Marketing Research Special Interdisciplinary Issue on Consumer Financial Decision Making
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Datamethods Discussion Forum
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Has Substack’s subscription model really “maxed out?”
Scott Carney and Taylor Lorenz posted on Substack about downward subscriber trends they’re seeing. Carney pins it on subscription fatigue and feeling like “The only way to grow is to pillage the paid subscribers from other creators.” Lorenz questions Substack’s direction, saying “more and more like this app is becoming another social media feed.” When we recently wrote about writers who are leaving Substack, they mentioned control, pricing, and the social feature creep among their reasons for choosing competitors like Ghost and Behiiv. [Link: Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax | https://www.theverge.com/tech/927294/substack-tax-ghost-beehiiv | The Verge]


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Restoring Consumer Sovereignty: How Markets Manipulate Us and What the Law Can Do About It
Abstract. For decades, there has been broad consensus within antitrust, intellectual property, and consumer law scholarship that consumers make decisions i

Publishers Haven't Realized Just How Big a Deal GDPR is - Baekdal
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Understanding Abundance, part 1: It’s Caused by Consumers
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One thing I continue to see missing in many atproto discussions is some of the things businesses need. Example: I see website builders but I haven't seen permission-ed logins for multiple people to access them. Ways for a publication to have mult authors & the journalists to also own their content.