02/10/2026, 01:28

Extended signature period by one month. Reason: Still receiving 15 signatures per day.


Neues Zeichnungsende: 11.03.2026
Unterschriften zum Zeitpunkt der Änderung: 4220

01/26/2026, 08:57

Dear undersigned,

we have just reached 4000 signatures! To give you an idea of how much this is: We are talking about 84 pages (size A4) full of signatures!
I want to personally thank you for your signatures and all your efforts in sharing the petition.

As a next step, I will contact the Vorwerk group for an appointment for handing over the signatures.

In the meantime, please keep pushing as much as you can: Get your families and friends to sign, your colleagues, whoever you talk to. Keep in mind: Switching off features remotely after sales can happen to EVERYONE tomorrow. We should send a strong signal against habits like this - and every signature counts.

Thank you!

01/10/2026, 00:14

Extended signing period. Still a decent amount of signatures coming in, though declining. So I guess in February it'll be over.


Neues Zeichnungsende: 11.02.2026
Unterschriften zum Zeitpunkt der Änderung: 3573

01/09/2026, 17:37

Dear petitioners,

The tech blog WeSpeakIOT has posed a few questions to Vorwerk.

This interesting article can be viewed here: www.wespeakiot.com/de/cloud-aus-vertrauen-weg-jetzt-spricht-vorwerk-zum-ende-der-smarten-neato-roboter/

Meanwhile, the surge in signatures has now subsided. We are therefore grateful for any sharing and distribution of the petition!

12/23/2025, 17:41

Dear undersigned,

I am completely stunned. Two days ago I celebrated the record of 64 signatures in a single day. Yesterday, we collected 182. Today, we have 318 signatures and counting!

How is that possible? Very "easy": By your help! In this case, one of our French undersigned, Corentin Huot, took initiative and (quote): "contacted multiple local and national media outlets in France (consumer, tech and general press) to alert them about the shutdown and its consequences. [...] reached out to French members of parliament as well as French Members of the European Parliament to ask them to intervene on consumer protection, sustainability and forced obsolescence grounds. [...] submitted a formal report to the French consumer protection authority (DGCCRF), describing the situation as a potential case of misleading commercial practice and software-driven planned obsolescence."

By this action, a big French news portal caught awareness and posted a news - and the rest is history: Since that day, numbers are exploding!

And this is what I would like to beg you: Please, wherever you are, try to share the petition. Get in touch with your local / national news portals, tech websites, consumer protection agencies. Whatever it is that comes to your mind. I can only do so much in my country - you know yours best! Corentine's story shows in an impressive manner, what kind of impact you can have.
And even if it isn't a similar big hit: We are over 2000 undersigned now. Even if anybody generates just one more signature - we'll be closing in to 5'000 signatures.
And - who knows - maybe the one undersigned that YOU generate has contacts that help generate hundreds more?
If Corentine had not heard about this petition, we would be short several hundred signatures - and counting.

Get the word out!

Have a nice holiday season! Thanks to you all, and to Corentine especially today.

12/23/2025

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12/22/2025

www.lesnumeriques.com/aspirateur-robot/appuyez-sur-le-bouton-et-taisez-vous-la-fin-des-aspirateurs-robots-neato-provoque-une-fronde-des-utilisateurs-n248550.html

12/22/2025, 02:53

We are now at nearly 1900 signatures, and yesterday marked a great achievement: It was the day with most signatures. 64 people signed yesterday.

This is great not only because it's a high number, but because it's highly unusual, given the age of the petition: It has started more than two months ago. Usually, petitions peak early after opening up and then steadily decline.

I can only assume that the petition is spreading around the world, and catching more and more attention. If we keep this pace, I am hopeful we can catch media attention on the topic.

So please keep sharing. And remember to share with everyone on your household as well!