It was a public site associated with consumer reports. They occasionally released some product research in various areas, but mainly they wrote stories about shitty anti consumer practices that companies did. They also ran the worst company in America competition and sent the winner a golden poo trophy.
This post reminded me of how much I miss the Consumerist website.
Oh wow. Totally forgot about them. The internet is such a shit hole now. (Except for lemmy and tildes of course =P)
What was that? O:
It was a public site associated with consumer reports. They occasionally released some product research in various areas, but mainly they wrote stories about shitty anti consumer practices that companies did. They also ran the worst company in America competition and sent the winner a golden poo trophy.
Like if the consumer protection bureau was a website.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180116152409/https://consumerist.com/