Asklemmy

I'm boycotting too many things to count. I have an entire website where I just list things I think should be boycotted for the sole reason of I hate capitalism

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.

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.

Boycotting is hard, because "no ethical consumption (etc).

That said, I boycott Wendy's and highly, HIGHLY encourage everyone else to do so as well because they still won't sit down with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and join the Fair Food Program.

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.

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.

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.

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.

-> 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, and all the others. Obvious.

Nestlé, wherever I can. They are a particularly evil multinational corporation.

Also won't work for companies that profit on human misery.

Amazon - that dude has already enough money

Nestlé and big chocolate brands such as Hershey. I doubt they'll stop until they face actual repercussions so I'm probably gonna keep it that way.

Reddit, Epic Games Store

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.

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.

Oh there are a lot. Nestlé and Amazon are the most important ones. I can't really say I boycott social media such a Facebook or Instagram because I do not really care about them. Boycotting includes an active action for me

Reddit, because… you know.

Walmart, people I know who’ve worked there were not treated well… and then there’s the plopping down in a town/city and hurting the local business just cause…

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.

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).

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.

I try to boycott conventionally/industrial produced groceries as much as possible, since organic food is not only better for your health, but also tastes better and doesn't kill all the insects, exhaust the soil or exploiting animals as much as possible. The price is a big downside though

Ubisoft, for at least 10 years.

Reddit since the API changes were announced

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.

Not a 100% boycott, but I try my best to minimize interest and interaction unless it's the absolute last resort:

• Nintendo
• Disney
• Reddit
• Imgur

Amy's Foods until the strikers say otherwise. I support BDS always. No fast food, no fast fashion.

Digg, I don't even remember why. It's been like 10 years.

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/

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.

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 😁

Red Bull (loved their cola) and War Thunder. One has a Nazi Boss and the other is just shitty to its players.

Everything google, Facebook, twitter, TikTok…