Save Water, Urinate in the Shower
A new ad campaign in Brazil urges citizens to pee in the shower as a way to conserve water. “Xixi no banho” translates to “Pee in the bath.” I don’t speak Portugese or I’d give you a play-by-play on...
View ArticleHow Does The Gawker Privacy Leak Concern Consumerist Users?
If you’ve got an account on Gawker.com or any of its sister sites (Kotaku, Gizmodo, Deadspin and Jezebel among others), you’ll probably want to change your passwords because anonymous hackers have...
View ArticleVote For Consumerist In The Webby Awards!
The nominees have been announced for the 15th Annual Webby Awards and we’re happy to say that Consumerist was nominated in the Blog-Business category! There are a ton of other categories to vote on but...
View ArticleNothing To Do This Summer? Be Our Intern
Consumer Reports, parent company of The Consumerist, has kicked off intern recruitment! We are currently seeing 21 interns across a wide range of disciplines to join us for a 12-week PAID summer...
View ArticleDo You Take Dietary Supplements? Consumer Reports Wants To Hear About It
Our sister-publication, Consumer Reports, needs your stories for a report on dietary supplements (including herbal remedies, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, and multi-ingredient supplements for...
View ArticleComments Are Taking A Vacation This Weekend While We Do Some Maintenance
In order to finish what we began back a few weeks back, we once again need to temporarily shut off commenting starting… well, any minute now (It might take a while for the shut down to thoroughly...
View ArticleWelcome To The Slightly Newer Consumerist.com!
If you’re looking at Consumerist right now and thinking “something’s not the same,” well… you’re right. We’ve been busy making some tweaks — some you’ll see and some you won’t — but it’s essentially...
View ArticleIMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR CONSUMERIST READERS
As some Consumerist readers have noted, the site has been down twice in the past week and we promised an explanation, which follows. We first took the site down late Wednesday afternoon, when we were...
View ArticleComments Have Been Restored
We at the Consumerist would like to thank you for sticking with us during this difficult time. This post is to inform you that the ability to comment on the site has been restored. As a precaution,...
View ArticleNotice About Errors With Password Reset Emails
Our hosting provider is having significant difficulty delivering password reset emails to our users. Today, they made a change that resulted in a large amount of backlogged emails being sent out to...
View ArticleConsumerist Comments Beta Test Begins Later Today
(devlon duthie) Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that Consumerist has been without reader comments for the last 12 months. We’re pleased to announce that today we are launching a beta test of the...
View ArticleHey You! Consumerist Is Looking For A Weekend Writer
(photographybynatalia)As you may have noticed, we don’t do much updating on weekends. It’s not because we don’t want to. Maybe you could help us correct this lapse in coverage. We’re currently looking...
View ArticleUse an iPhone? Install The New Security Update Right Now.
Apple’s pushing a major iOS security update today that iPhone users will want to download and install as soon as they can. The iOS 9.3.5 update, patch, which Apple is pushing basically right now, fixes...
View ArticleAmazon Can Charge Any Subscription To Any Card You Have On File If Your...
A Consumerist reader recently went to run some errands and found the charge to her debit card was declined due to insufficient funds. She was puzzled — that account should have had at least $100 in it....
View ArticleFriendly Reminder: The FBI Will Never Show Up Unannounced And Demand Money
If someone comes knocking on your door, claiming to be an FBI agent and demanding money, call the actual police — because you’re being conned by someone impersonating a federal agent. Just ask the...
View ArticleChange This New Setting If You Want To Keep Facebook Video From Being Really...
Facebook just announced several tweaks to the way video will start performing on its service soon. However, in the name of enhancing “customer experience,” Facebook is adding one change that is likely...
View ArticleHeads Up: You May Need To Change Your Passwords On Thousands Of Sites
It’s a rough day for users of, well, basically the entire internet: A major vulnerability in a huge web services company has been disclosed, and it means your personal data may have leaked into public...
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