What are you boycotting right now and why? Are there any Boycotts you've ended?
What are you boycotting right now and why? Are there any Boycotts you've ended?
This post is somewhat inspired by a recent post in this same community called "Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?"
I imagine "Reddit" will be a common answer. (And it's one of my answers.)
Another of my answers is "Hasbro." First Wizards of the Coast (a Hasbro subsidiary) tried to revoke an irrevokable license and screw over basically all 3rd-party publishers of D&D content, then they sent literal mercinaries to threaten one of their customers over an order mixup that wasn't even the customer's fault. D&D: Honor Among Thieves and the latest Transformers look really good, but those are within the scope of my boycott, so I won't be seeing those any time soon.
Third, Microsoft. (Apple too, but then I've never bought any Apple devices in my life, so it hardly qualifies as a boycott.) Just because of their penchant for using devices I own against me in every way they can imagine. And for really predatory business practices.
One boycott that I've ended was a boycott of Nintendo. I was pissed that they started marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though it didn't have a name at the time) before the WiiU came out, prompting me to be an early adopter of the WiiU, and then when they actually released BotW, they dual-released it on WiiU and Switch. I slightly eased my boycott when the unpatchable Fusee Gilee vulnerability for the first batch of Switches was discovered. I wanted to get one of the ones I could hack and run homebrew on before they came out with a model that lacked the vulnerability.
At this point, what am I not boycotting? lol
I guess this is the abridged no-go list:
- Nestle (duh)
- BP (still haven't forgiven them for lubricating the Gulf of Mexico and being like "oops, sorry")
- Verizon (injecting tracking IDs into customer web traffic to sell to advertisers while also charging me $60/mo for 2 GB of data -- I'm a product or a customer. I will not be both.)
- RWNJ-owned businesses (Chick-fil-A, In-n-Out, Hobby Lobby, Applebees, etc)
- AT&T (After so many years, I forget exactly why, but they're just evil)
- The entire states of Florida and Texas
- The lottery (I'd have the same payout and more fun just setting the money on fire)
- Microsoft (It's MY computer, not yours)
- Apple (Overpriced hardware, control-freak walled garden, everything needs a damn $29 dongle, etc)
- Reddit, Facebook, Twitter (also blocked in firewall)
- Amazon (except the 2-3 times a year they give me a free month of Prime and I buy all my stuff, take the free 1-2 day shipping and cancel before they bill me)
Late additions:
- Exxon (knew about climate change for over 40 years; spent millions promoting misinformation/denialism)
- Bank of America (used to work there - will never bank there. Oh, you're poor? There's a fee for that - several, actually)
nestle. man fuck nestle
Amazon. Fuck Amazon.
I'm boycotting everything from Nestlé, which can get difficult since that evil octopus of a company has so many goddamn tentacles!
As for boycotts I've ended, I used to boycott the Lotus brand of toilet paper and paper towels because they were made by a Koch Industries subsidiary but then they sold the brand off to a socially and environmentally conscious Swedish company so I started buying them again.
The gas station down on the corner. When I first moved here, I went there all the time because it was convenient. Gas, bread, soda, you name it, I would swing through there and pick it up. I stopped every single work morning and got coffee on the way to work. I started bringing my own insulated cup, so they charged me less. Then it was bought by a new owner, and he wanted to charge me more. Okay, it was still cheaper than if I used their cup and more convenient than making it at home - they provide the coffee, sweetener, creamer, and there's no clean up on my part. One day I went in with a new cup that was the same capacity as the old cup. A different shape, but it held the same number of ounces. The owner said, "that cup's bigger, I charge you more." I tried to argue, but he didn't budge, and he charged me the same amount as a large coffee in their cup. Now, I'm not stupid, I've worked in retail before, I know the largest cost to a cup of coffee is the cup, but I paid it, walked out the door, and never set foot in there again. That's been eleven years ago, and I don't plan to go back. I hope the few cents he greedily wanted over coffee was worth all the other lost sales.
Nothing. I've given up.
I am too small to make a difference, unable to convince others in my life to join, and the companies I want to boycott have grown so big that their brands are everywhere and it's exhausting to try to keep track of them all. Plus, boycotts are pretty ineffective these days. Even in the most extreme cases, companies now know they only have to wait ~2-3 months before the masses stop caring and move on to something else.
Now I just live my life. I support causes I believe in, try to treat everyone I meet with kindness and respect, and do what I can to give myself and my family a happy, comfortable life. That's all I can do, it may not be enough to save the world, but it's enough to save me and those I love
I used to boycott ATI before AMD bought them, because the driver support on Linux was so bad. I got a laptop with a GPU they didn't support until almost a couple years later, and then as soon as it worked, they dropped support because it was too old.
Now they have the open source driver and better GPU support than Nvidia.
Reddit - API fiasco, antagonistic, and predictable
Facebook - it's crap
Instagram - popularity contest
WhatsApp - unnecessary
Snapchat - unnecessary
TikTok - Chinese spyware
Microsoft - bloat and privacy
Adobe - expensive and slow
Twitter/X - crap
Elon Musk news - annoying
Oil change places - rip off & untrustworthy
Tire places except for Costco - rip off
Toyota dealerships - shady and deceptive
Apple - expensive and limiting
Netflix - crap
Hulu - crap
Wendy's - crap
KFC - crap
Bottled water - expensive and wasteful
Sodas - terrible for health
Papa Johns - treats employees like shit, crap politics, expensive
Panda Express - generic, local places are better
Pollo Tropical - generic, local places are better
Checking & savings banks - credit unions are much better for their customers
American cars - crap
BMW - for dickheads and too expensive
HOAs - waste of money, too controlling
Autism Speaks - more harmful than good
Susan G Komen - selfish litigators
Better Help - pays their clinicians shit, so you're getting bottom of the barrel therapy
Apple - while their products are undeniably good quality on both HW and SW sides, I hate their business practices, overpriced products (monitor stand for $1k ?!?!?!?!), and being anti right to repair.
Epic Games - partially owned by Tencent (a money hungry Chinese company), PC exclusivity deals, anti consumerism
Elon Musk - nuff said
Andrej Babiš - a Czech politician who used to be in the communist party back in the day (and denies it), a millionaire, a liar, a thief, and in general piece of shit. I will never buy any products made by companies owned by him (sure, they are not "his" per-se, because they can't legally be, but I am sure he still profits from them through money laundering).
Tik Tok - app by the Chinese, with tracking and information gathering throughout, and an ultimate time sink. Stupid trends start there, and it does absolutely nothing for the humanity.
Facebook. Never had an account. In the early days I was afraid id lose job opportunities because something I'd post or others post with me in it, like smoking a bong or maybe just drunken 2am rant.
Now I don't like it cuz it converts sweet old people into Nazis. Among everything else.
I don’t buy Nestle products.
Boycotting In N Out for being anti-vax and more recently anti mask. Shame because their burgers are pretty good for the prices they charge.
I recently chose to release my boycott on home Depot. I found that the one of the founders of home Depot was supporting Trump and since I'm anti-trump it doesn't make sense for me to support his supporters you know?
The friend of my enemy is my enemy after all.
But then I looked into it and found that home Depot had actually disavowed association with the guy and intentionally and willfully does not support any presidential candidate.
I'm still boycotting Walmart and Amazon and Chick-fil-A and hobby lobby though. Walmart and Amazon are some of the largest companies in the world and they can afford to pay their employees living wages and they choose not to in the name of greed.
Chick-fil-A and hobby lobby are companies that sell things that people might occasionally like but at the same time they use their profits to support anti-gay and anti-trans and anti-bodily autonomy movements, and even though I'm not affected by any of those three movements, I'm not going to let my money go into the pockets of people who are spending that money on hate.
If I can help it, I try to support local businesses over Walmart, Target, Amazon, or any other near monopolistic retail chain.
Chick-fil-A, and Hobby Lobby. Owners have been vehemently antiqueer and antichoice, and have funded such organizations and politicians through their business.
Activision/Blizzard and Ubisoft. Both have been accused of large scale sexual misconduct, and neither company has completely dealt with the issue.
Twitter and Reddit. It's not just that I hate the direction both sites are heading, but I want to fully back and support the open source alternatives that have grown during the migrations of both sites. Besides, Musk has made it to where I can't even lurk on Twitter if I wanted to.
JonTron. He's living proof that as long as you're funny, people will forgive and forget anything. (Look up his history with racism and antivax for those in the latter camp, cause I'm tired of answering the "what he do" question)
The Harry Potter franchise. This one hurt the most because I had just starting to get into the Harry Potter series as the pandemic hit, and I was halfway through Prisoner of Azkaban when Rowling started her campaign against trans people. I Also used respect Rowling a lot because she's a master at world building, and I had gotten into reading Harry Potter cause I wanted to take inspiration from it for my own work.
Ruroni Kenshin, and Nobuhiro Watsuki's other works. I can get why people would forgive JonTron and Rowling to an extent, but defending Nobuhiro's pedophilia is a bridge way tf too far for me.
I try to boycott as much of Nestle as possible and Tencent
Surprised I don't see this one, but slave trade chocolate (which unfortunately is most chocolate).
There are some lists out there, but we try to avoid all chocolate unless we are sure it isn't harvested with slave labour, even partially.
EA, since 2013 when they fucked up sim city.
Inkjet printers are pretty much a scam, and HP is particularly shameless about it. I do not buy anything from HP.
Dell sold me a lemon laptop and it took 6 months for them trying to fix it before I demanded a complete replacement, and they replaced it with a different model with fewer features. I wouldn't buy a Dell if civilization depended on it.
I'm avoiding pretty much any large video game studio. Kinda baffles me that anyone anywhere does business with Activision/Blizzard, EA, Bethesda and the like. They treat their creative staff like shit, they treat their customers like shit. Looking down my list of games bought in the last 10 years, I'm not sure if Unknown Worlds Entertainment (developers of Subnautica) or Coffee Stain Studios (Goat Simulator; Satisfactory) are the largest studio I buy from. Valve themselves don't count per "in the last 10 years."
I avoid Microsoft as much as I can. They're just straight-up bad people and have been since before I was born.
Fast fashion companies
I buy on Amazon only if I got some gift card (because im broke af and those are free money) but never with the fast shipment
Fast foods, Starbucks and similar
Delivery companies like Uber eats or Glovo
Meat
I don’t buy not-reusable products (like toothbrushes, razors, cotton) with a few exceptions, where I can I buy the eco or tech versions
Apple. I wouldn't use their products if they were free.
Roblox. As a parent, I'm not about to support a casino for kids. As a hobbyist game developer, I won't support their exploitation of developers either.
Lotteries. Im not against gambling in general, but I sure am against emotional manipulation, and taking advantage of those who don't understand math.
Back around the start of the millennium Napster became a thing and suddenly every song was fair game. I cannot stress how cool it was to be able to find a song and hear it on demand.
I did however feel some guilt about taking songs for free from my favorite bands at the time. So I came up with some ethical standards I could live with. One of them being "If I downloaded more than 3 songs off a single album, I should buy that album." After that I took stock off my mp3 collection and began purchasing CD's to back fill what I'd downloaded.
The first band I started purchasing albums from was Metallica, and then they sued Napster.
I haven't spent a dime on them or listened to their music since. At first it was a conscious decision, but then after a year or so I realized I just didn't care about their music much anymore so it was easy after that.
Sony - When the ps3 came out it had the OtherOS feature that allowed users to install Linux. This was the main reason I bought a PS3 instead of other systems. From the beginning, it turned out that Sony crippled the OtherOS by restricting resources that were available to it.
After a few years, they removed the OtherOS feature, because someone hacked it, which could possibly lead to pirating ps3 games.
They sold me a PS3 based on a specific feature and then disabled that feature. I will never knowingly buy a Sony product again.
Microsoft, Apple, anything Nestle, Meat products that don't tell you where the animal was raised and claim it's origin is domestic (too often bs). Pet food from the big global players.
Semi-boycotting digital stores like Epic Games and Ubisoft. I already have Steam and GOG and I don't wan't any more bloatware or their launchers on my system. Plus others don't seem to give a shit about Linux players.
Not a 100% boycott, but I try my best to minimize interest and interaction unless it's the absolute last resort:
- Nintendo
- Disney
- Imgur
Reddit obviously. Pretty much any corpo controlled social media in general though. Deleted my FB account about 5-6 years ago and never looked back. Deleted my barely used Twitter account after muskrat took over.
Blizzard. Haven't played a Blizzard game since 2012 ish. I was deployed and would play WoW in my downtime until a major update came out and completely broke me, blizzard was no help in the multiple tickets that I submitted. Tried every fix I could find on the internet at the time. I asked them if they could send me an install disc, I'd even pay for it. Hard no from blizzard. It was clear they didn't care about a long time player like me. That was it for them. Now over the years we have seen all of the scandals and games rampant with microtransactions. I'll never play another one of their games unless I pirate the shit out of it.
I'm becoming increasingly intolerant to all of the tech price increases so I've been ramping up my self hosting capabilities. I just need time which is a hard commodity to come by for me anymore. This is really the only thing preventing me from cancelling Netflix right now because Netflix is easy for my kid to access across devices.
I have wanted to cancel Amazon for months now, but that's a battle I've lost to the wife. She gets everything on there. I've tried the argument that we can just order stuff when we have a cart over $25 for the free shipping. I've mentioned about how many late shipments we've got over the last few months. 2 day shipping has become a straight lie at this point. We don't watch Amazon prime video at all.
I'm boykotting Canon and Birkenstock. The first for being total idiots, spurting "open source is theft of intellectual property!", the second because I know the owner family (the son was in my class) and they are assholes that would make Trump proud.
Fast / Branded fashion - When I was at grammar school there were attempts at bullying kids not wearing branded clothes. Attempts - because those days I was not only year older and head higher than any of my peers but also one pissed off boy scout. They say violence does not solve anything - I say there are exceptions. I don't wear clothes with any form of visible branding or statement. No matter if it is NIKE or similar piece of crap or some brand no one ever heard of. My backpack is the model bundeswehr used to use till the late 80s - re-stitched so many times it is probably a totally unique piece of luggage by now. My jeans are de-branded levis or wornstar bootcuts with reinforced crotch (iron-on patches), my jackets are by Polish company Helicon Tex - they mostly supply to military / police - their models are brand less single color rugged simple and big on pockets. I love Source sandals and linen pants for summer. It should be noted that my occupation does not require me to look respectable - I look like a used fiver - and everybody loves me.
A little bit different, but Caseking will never get my business. They have a booth at Gamescom right now where you can race in a simrig and try to get the best time of the day. There is also a time of a pro which you can try to beat, and if you do and are the fastest at the end of the day you get a 200€ discount on Moza Racing.
Here comes the problem though, they ran the wrong game for more than half a day (AC instead of ACC) and when telling them that with the configuration of the circuit (Nürburgring with the slower chicane as the last to last corner) the time was simply impossible to beat. They just laughed at me and making it look like I had a skill-issue and am simply not good enough to beat the time. When I came back in the last hours they switched over to ACC but were driving a wrong, slower car making the challenge still not beatable. I tried to tell them this once again but they continued to just laugh and ignore me. If you ask me they dont want anybody to win the coupon and are just ripping people off
Ubisoft, EA, Epic Games, Blizzard / Activision,, etc.. All of these companies mistreat their workers. From racism and sexism to sexual harassment and unbearable crunch. Fuck these companies. (I also boycott other companies, but I havent seen these mentioned yet.)
I don't care how good the game looks, or how much I want it, or how deep the sale is.
I dont buy games from EA, or Ubisoft, and I don't buy anything from Nintendo or Sony.
Companies that actively hate its customers won't see a dime of my money.
Also Nestle, for what I hope are obvious reasons.. but its hard to avoid it since it hides itself in so many subsidiaries.
My longest ongoing boycott is Nestle. I've probably bought a Nestle product by accident at some point or another, but if I see the logo or know it's a sub brand it's a no go. My newest boycott is LTT/LMG (Linus Media Group).
I left Reddit but I'm not sure if I would qualify that as boycotting. I don't browse there but I still use the search terms for niche information like I did in the past. Reading this thread I see a lot of boycotts that I agree with, but I wouldn't qualify as my own since I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary. Take Hobby Lobby, I've never had cause to go there so I've never gone there. If I had cause to go there, I would find an alternative but it's not like I'm actively going out of my way like I do to ignore Nestle products.
I still get Chick-fil-A occasionally, it's one thing I feel guilty about. Not often mind you, like once every few months, but growing up I had fun memories there with people I won't be able to make new memories with, so I find it comforting.
I'm not sure "boycott" is the right word, but I refuse to pay for games that have microtransactions in them.
I also won't have anything to do with Hasbro in general and D&D specifically until they issue a public apology for the halfling art in 5e. I'm only half kidding.
I have a local grocery chain I only go to when I'm desperate because the president of the company is an absolute shit bag of a human being, and because they have armed guards confronting shoplifters, which is really fucking dystopian if you ask me.
- DRM because it is feudalism, theft, and a disgusting violation of the fundamental unalienable human right of ownership.
- Autodesk I experienced Eagle. -Extortionists
- Subscription software
-> Nestlé (obviously)
-> Nintendo, despite their friendly appearance and their quality games they are one of the worst game companies of all time. They openly spit in the face of their fans and persecute anyone trying to make something good out of their creations (Melee, Pokemon uranium) or breaking their DRM filled proprietary walled garden (looking at gary bowser). Im a huge pokemon fan but i only play on emulators or foss projects like showdown so as to carefully not give them anything.
-> Amazon literally the devil and symbol of exploitation/over consumerism, never forgetting the working conditions of their employees in my country and everywhere else.
-> Tencent, Lenovo, Oneplus, Huawei, and all the others. Obvious.
I've been boycotting Apple for the past fifteen years. I tend to avoid any systems that are closed or proprietary by design. It's becoming increasingly difficult to adhere to this principle due to the profit motives for this practice. Notable examples of late are electric car chargers. You would imagime that there are different electrons in your battery compared with other people's but no, physics is truly universal. It's the car makers that dream up these differences and create incompatible battery interfaces. Compare that with petroleum products, one can fill a tank anywhere and it works the same, as it should do.
Lol - wonder if this thread makes us a bunch of Karens.
In no particular order:
- Reddit (obvious reasons)
- My local KFC (three strikes on really, really shitty order fulfillment via Uber Eats, no fucks given when complaints lodged)
- A pizza chain here in Australia - La Porchetta - for sucking people into a loyalty program where the points couldn't be redeemed via their shitty app
- All social media sites except LinkedIn (there's still moderate value in professional networking) - I've even extended my boycott of Shit Tok to banning it on my home network (much to my teenagers' chagrin)
- G2A.com because they fucked me over on a Xbox Live 12-month key after alleging my PayPal account was deemed a "payment risk", yet they still spam me with emails on a weekly basis
- Netflix after they said they'd still charge me for password sharing when my stepkids use our account at the dad's place, even thought they're part of my household
Boycotts I've ended:
- My mother (not a nice person, but my daughter deserves to have a relationship with her last living grandparent)
Boycotts I wish I had the strength/ability/motivation to implement:
- Big tech
- Nestle
- (my daughter's use of) Roblox
@TootSweet Its said a modern human can't live without using Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and f*ckbook.
They dominate that much of our lives.Wanted to change this notion. So I don't use a single Big Tech service. Why? How about-
- Their monopoly which stifles innovation
- Their potential influence which can meddle in anything from politics to even your day to day life decisions
- Worst of all, their privacy record
- Addiction problems, especially in kids
Hope that's good enough
Cars - Even if it makes my life extremely difficult in today's day and age, I've decided to try my best not getting/buying a car. I'm in Europe, so this is much easier to do than in US, and I want to see how far can I go with a bike or public transport only.
Blizzard, Bungie, Activision, Bethesda (at least titles developed by them) - anti consumer practices, even though some of the games are definitely good. As for Bethesda, I still would be down to buy games published but not developed by them, though the only one I've ever gotten was Dishonored.
Google and Microsoft - terrible privacy, tries to monopolize things. Actual evil companies and I don't really like them, switched them out completely from my daily desktop life and I couldn't be happier.
Pokemon go, since they upped the price of remote raids and made waaay harder for people like me out in a remote town to fully participate I’ve not been back. Which sucks because I really liked collecting pokemon with it. But I kept getting the feeling that the company hated me. Well it doesnt seem to like any of its users, but it especially didn’t like the ones in locations like mine. So I left and refuse to go back.
Also a local art shop , the owner was really snobby and said I couldnt afford the paint I was after. She was correct but still, not nice to make me feel bad about it.
Fast food. It's all disgusting fucking garbage, the customer service is horrible, delivery services rip you off non-stop, and their business practices are completely unethical and cruel. So I decided, "fuck them all" and started cooking for myself. Nowadays I make food that's leaps and bounds ahead of that pig swill I used to gulp down, even comparable to a lot of restaurants.
You don't actually need most businesses to survive, especially food service. Food service is arguably the easiest aspect of society to gain true independence from.
EA and Ubisoft.
Most clothing brands... I'm not paying a premium to be a walking advertisement and its all made in sweatshops anyway. I'd rather some non branded stuff so I'm contributing less to that whole system.
I dont care about all of the android watch or apple airtag stuff either. The new phone can do xyz.. Great still dont care as its a tracking piece of shit that will break in a few years.. I may as well keep my current piece of shit until the wheels fall off.
Subscription services. I used to use Netflix back in the day when you only needed one subscription and changing the DNS still worked.
I use free Spotify with brave adblocking and newpipe for music. I hear sailing is lovely this time of year.
TLDR: I avoid most corporations where I can , I think valve are the only one that I dont mind interacting with.
Too many to list, here are a couple of mine:
Companies that support Russia's war in Ukraine by doing business and paying taxes in Russia. Leroy Merlin is one of them, I used to spend a lot in their store. I use Zrada app on my Android phone to track these companies and avoid them.
Apple - mainly because they fight against customer's right to repair their devices. Also, I prefer devices that are easy service and upgrade and I feel they steered the industry away from that.
Reddit, Epic Games Store
I stopped using Apple products since the time when they convert my mp3s to an iTunes derivative. Never buying/using Apple again.
Twitter, barilla, chik-fil-a, hobby lobby, papa johns, reddit
Twitter is a cess pool and reddit is bafflingly going down the same path. Barilla attempted to change its image but I dont trust anything that suddenly claims to care once money is involved. Chik-fil-a and hobby lobby are still run by religious nutbars and I dont see a point in going to papa johns after years of going elsewhere and making my own pizza when I feel like it. Also they died off immediately in my area after the controversy came out lol. So I'd have to go out of my way to eat there.
I'm still boycotting Wizards of the Coast over the OGL drama. In addition to being against open and shared content in their game system, I was getting tired of their half baked books with no substance coming so frequently that I just couldn't keep up with it. When they announced their own Virtual Tabletop software, I knew it was only a matter of time before you couldn't even play D&D 5e on another platform so I bailed and I'm not looking back.
There’s no way some of the stuff itt is actually boycotts.
Boycotts are organized and have specific goals and demands. Not buying nestle products isn’t a boycott because whats the demand, that they break up? Pirating media or blocking ads isn’t a boycott both because it’s not organized (in the political sense, not the semantic sense) and there’s no demand.
There’s nothing wrong with not buying nestle stuff or piracy but they’re not boycotts.
Also boycotts don’t work on their own. They gotta be paired with a protest movement, the more militant the better (the option of boycotting covers the non-militant bases).
Anything Tencent or Bytedance.
Every western country bashes Tiktok but it's owned by these companies, and their holdings are in the thousands of apps and games including Reddit and Discord.
They're just data mining companies and anywhere the CCP has access to your data is a problem.
Several things but the most interesting one to others might be Firehouse Subs. Got treated like shit at one over a decade ago and have boycotted ever since.
I guess I've effectively boycotted McDonald's too. I'd rather go without food than go to McDonald's. Doesn't taste good so I'd rather not waste my money.
I've had to tell friends several times that I don't eat at these places.
Many things actually. I'm in the process of degoogling and ditching ms office. Ditched reddit. Ditched discord. I'm also ditching android apps and switching to FOSS versions if i can find them. And today i ditched Startpage. I just found this article about them: https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group/
If you want to watch honor among thieves but don't want to support Hasbro, just raise the black flag (and your VPN) and pirate it
Digg, I don't even remember why. It's been like 10 years.
Ubisoft, for at least 10 years.
Reddit since the API changes were announced
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Uber, HP.
Also, specifically in France: Casino, Monoprix, Leader-Price (now owned by Casino).
Keeping track of what to boycott became to burdensome, so I'm just kinda doing a universal boycott where I buy everything possible second hand.
Hobby Lobby is probably one of the biggest on my shitlist
Right now I've completely given up candy and soda for about 3 years now. I hate the business practices of candy companies and how they target children and make their shit as addictive as possible. They use ultra vibrant packaging to get kids eyes to lock to the product and they know kids will beg for it until they get it and they put it on their eye level and on the sides of the checkout lines.
The entire candy thing is just scummy and I hate it so much. I personally see it as legal drugs for children.
I’m trying to avoid products made in China, with varying success.
Am also vegetarian if I get the choice (which isnt always)
Edit; I appear to also be boycotting fast fashion if unintentionally. I wear clothes until they are worn out and then some
I don't know if I boycott. I refuse to do business with certain companies, if that counts. I suppose that's what a boycott is.
- Google, first and foremost
- Microsoft
- Meta
- Apple
- Visa
- MasterCard
- Paypal, including Venmo
- all banks
- oil change places
- all outlet stores
There's probably more I'm not thinking of. Generally speaking I use all FOSS software, always buy things used from a person who owns it, don't buy processed food and cook my own 99% of the time, don't use chemical products on my skin or in the shower, buy clothes used and use cash for everything. For Amazon, which I do use, I get gift cards.
Totally boycotting micro$oft (except for leeching from github)
boycotting Israel as much as I can (a medication I depend on comes from there, unfortunately)
Fast food, it's just bad and unhealty
eBay as a buyer, selling stuff there opened my eyes as how much that platform sucks.
AAA game studios, kinda. I just pirate them.
Amy's Foods until the strikers say otherwise. I support BDS always. No fast food, no fast fashion.
Still researching, but thinking about adding trader joes after reading this: https://jacobin.com/2023/08/trader-joes-workers-independent-unionism-organizing-tju-grocery-store
Does your Hasbro boycott extend to the products of others licensing rights from them?
Because, though I totally get and agree with your point about Hasbro, having to skip Baldurs Gate 3 would be a huge test of your resolve if you're anything like me 😁
All meat and animal origin products
@TootSweet I've injested food from chickfila once in my life and entered a walmart four times and purchased something twice. As an adult I've been in Texas twice and spent some money there both times, once on a motorcycle tour and once for a conference. I will not go back again for any reason until they reinstate human rights. Same with Florida and a few other states. I know that there're good people there and in the two businesses I mentioned but I'll go elsewhere, thanks.
#EndFacism #NazisRausRed Bull (loved their cola) and War Thunder. One has a Nazi Boss and the other is just shitty to its players.
-Reddit, for obvious reasons
-all food delivery apps, the service is absolute garbage
-I'm vegetarian as long as I'm cooking for myself, for environmental reasons
-a bunch of musicians who proved to be fucking morons in the last 8 years or so
Oh you know, school, the marriage institution, the CPS, Autism Speaks, the usual.
well i guess im boycotting Reddit and then uhhh i guess il boycott uhhh ns-nope uhh mabye tenor yea i suppose that
Nestle is my only major boycott but also technically Hasbro. Still play DND but I'm moving to pathfinder soon. Hasbro doesn't get a dime tho
Yea Nintendo for sure. For such a company that makes such fun and charming games they have such shitty business practices and their hardware sucks
Cheaperthandirt.com has pulled enough stunts to make me permanantly shun them. The thing that sticks out the most for me is canceling confirmed orders so that they could turn around and put items back on their storepage for a massively inflated price.
Amazon, Google (except for YouTube, there's really no alternative), Facebook, Twitter and social media in general, EA, Ubisoft and Epic Games, Nestlé and food with excessive plastic wrapping, food delivery services
Reddit.
Had an account for 9.5 yrs.
-First they kill all the good 3rd party apps.
-Then I get called a ‘fucking idiot’ for asking a question, but I get a temp suspension for telling the person to fuck off.
I deleted my account. Not going to try to appeal to a site that’s dying. They don’t deserve my input. 😁
The Sims. Love the series but they really fuck their fans with the DLC with it being repackaged content from prior games, bundled awkwardly, and overpriced.
Nintendo because their stance on modding grinds my gears.
I don't know if I'll buy another Raspberry Pi product partially because they acted rather immature in 2022 when there was some controversy over someone they hired. Also their products being quite expensive when companies like Pine64 sell decent products.
Ever since the whole chat reporting thing coming to mincemeat java edition, I have boycotted that for the Mintest game engine just because I ain't willing to play a voxel sandbox game where I can get banned all because I feel like being an adult and saying profanity.
Microsoft, Google
No
Epic until they start developing UT4 again.
A lot of stuff. All streaming services. I even boycott entire us states, at least where applicable.
I would love to end reddit boicot.
But the reddit app font is just to tiny for me use, and you can't change it without changing your whole phone font. I tried red reader but it is so ugly I can't use it.
So here I am, still boicoting reddit. I suppose it's not even a boicot anymore. I just don't like the product anymore.
Products and services that rely on exploitation, and those that come from countries involved in human rights violations (Israel, China, USA, Russia, Saudi to name a few). You bet your ass I buy almost nothing XD, just local food and used clothes from private individuals, sometimes thrift stores if they are local and don't violate the first rule.
Reddit, for reasons I'm sure everybody here knows. I do make two exceptions: first, there is one single small community on Reddit that "meets" once a week. I comment on those posts. Second, I'll allow myself to comment on posts about or related to boycotting Reddit.
Google's Android. While I don't currently want to completely switch to another Android OS, that doesn't mean I won't in the future. Currently, though, I do try to modify the OS as much as possible to protect my privacy to a reasonable extent. I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone. I run an adblocker app 24/7 on my phone. And I trusted, modified versions of apps where possible, such as ReVanced. I also recently disabled the Google Play Store and started using the Aurora Store as my default.
I guess you could call these "soft" boycotts.
I would boycott Apple, but I like Android and its ability to install apps from outside their app store way more, and Windows just makes more sense to me than a Mac, so I honestly have no need for Apple.
As for modifying Windows (like I'm doing with Android) or boycotting it, I'm sure that'll happen in time with the way things are going. I've only just recently started looking into stuff like ShutUp10 and other similar stuff, but I want to make sure I know what I'm doing since a Windows OS can be a bit more fragile than an Android OS.
Not definitive but this lot can go swivel.
Amazon: Concerns about labor practices, environmental impact, and monopolistic behavior. Nestlé: Over allegations of unethical water usage, promotion of baby formula in developing countries, and environmental practices. Monsanto (now Bayer): Concerns about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the pesticide Roundup. HSBC: For their financing of fossil fuel projects. Coca-Cola: Water usage concerns in developing countries and health implications of their products. Palm Oil Producers: Due to deforestation and destruction of orangutan habitats. Fashion Brands: Such as H&M, Zara, and Primark, due to concerns over fast fashion and labor practices. Apple: Due to labor practices and environmental concerns. Facebook (now Meta Platforms): Privacy issues, spread of misinformation, and other ethical concerns. Walmart (ASDA): Labor practices and impact on local businesses. Fast Food Chains: Like McDonald's, for environmental and health reasons.I boycott Twitter and Instagram and Reddit, Starbucks, most of the US save for New York state because of the politics, Kellogg's, and, Loblaws grocery stores. Those are just off the top of my head. I should honestly boycott more.
Israel and any company operating out of the occupied Palestinian lands that is Israeli operated.
Apartheid states that oppress people's in another land and treat them like prisoners in an open air prison don't get my money.
Boycott? Nothing. Avoid like the plague? Apple, Windows, consoles like Xbox and PlayStation, Activision Blizzard and probably others I can't remember rn.
Nintendo gets a pass as I've grown up with them. Starting with a regular old DS Lite, then to a DSI XL, then the 3DS XL, and now a Switch.
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In and Out for banning mask usage at their stores in CA.
Keep in mind I live in California so it's kind of everywhere. And tasty. And cheap.
But it aint right, let your employees wear a mask of they need to or want to.
Oh chik fil a too but that's been going on for like... over ten years? I almost forgot they existed, with their overcooked chicken.
I don't really consider them boycotts because they are indefinite and I don't have any demands or don't see how they could change that would make me receptive to them.
Cars. I'll personally ride along or carpool with someone but I don't want to add another car to the world and to the road. Even if we switched over to all electric cars, they still require lots of resources to build and maintain and put a lot of demand on infrastructure and urban design.
Animal products. I am against all animal products and treating animal as commodity. We've enslaved animals all the way down to the biological level, it's unethical.
Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft because of their abhorrent workplace and business practices. Been boycotting AB since the whole Hong Kong thing, and Ubisoft since the sexual harassment allegations. It also helps that all their games for a while have been mid ow worse.
Still trying to decide if I should draw the line at not giving them money, or not using it at all when it's something I've already paid for
Dating myself. Coca-Cola. New coke saga. Hit me at the exact point of developing a social consciousness. The absolute mercenary method of screwing around with their products.
airbnb, Chinese stuff as much as possible, newscorp, fairfax, a specific car mechanic who I caught out in an attempted repair extortion over 12 years ago now and I still badmouth them whenever the general topic arises
oh and one of my wife's acquaintances (fortunately less so these days) who is a self centred idiot, literally publicly cucked her husband and doesn't feel bad about it, just parks in the common driveway (literally the way in and out for the units behind ours) and makes excuses for her klepto kids all the time. by boycott I mean I refuse to acknowledge her presence if she's around unless it's to tell her to move her fucking car. again.
AMD, for the last 17 years. I had an ATI card and it broke so I needed to RMA it but thats when AMD bought them out & the RMA'd card failed as well, within 48 hours - so I RMA'd again and again, same issue. RMA'd again and again, same issue. tossed the card & started using only Nvidia and have never had an issue since. fuck AMD.
cant think of anything I actively boycott, though I do avoid products that have overly enthusiastic marketing campaigns.
