Recently, I received a consumer grade dell desktop in for a computer upgrade that appears to prevent me from disabling secure boot. When I disabled secure boot from BIOS and saved changes, it rebooted and the boot process asked me twice to confirm the secure boot disabling, after the second attempt the boot process appeared to lock-up. Also I have noticed that it also included a BIOS Module called Absolute Persistence. My understanding that this was a Business Model feature and not a feature that is needed for consumer models. From my point of view, these features impact the stability of the BIOS, enabling tracking by default that is not needed and creates friction when upgrading hardware. The more features like this they load into BIOS, the longer it takes to flash and the more likely it is for a power outage to happen.

As such, I have stopped my upgrade services for OEM computers. For customers that want to purchase new computers, I am recommending custom built desktop computers with aftermarket hardware, or repair friendly laptops like Framework.

I wonder how many people an organizations would be interested in starting some kind of initiative to compel OEM providers to stop adding features that clearly are designed to take control away from the consumers? or are there any out there already?

You mean the very organizations that demanded these features to be installed in the first place?

For consumer products though? Can you point to which organizations request these features?