Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Uber, HP.
Also, specifically in France: Casino, Monoprix, Leader-Price (now owned by Casino).
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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.
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
@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 #NazisRaus
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
well i guess im boycotting Reddit and then uhhh i guess il boycott uhhh ns-nope uhh mabye tenor yea i suppose that
Microsoft, Google
No
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.
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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
-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
I stopped using Apple products since the time when they convert my mp3s to an iTunes derivative. Never buying/using Apple again.
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.
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.
Oh you know, school, the marriage institution, the CPS, Autism Speaks, the usual.
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 also exist and produce decent products.
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.
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. 😁
A lot of stuff. I even boycott entire us states, at least where applicable.