Hello everybody,
What is the company and corporation that is the object of your hate? What did/do they do to get that spot for you?
Mine is Facebook/Meta for their egregious data collection policies, psychological manipulation of its users, and more recently, them not seeding content.
Thanks in advance for your time! Have a good one!
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About fucking ready to wipe Budget rental car off the face of the earth for the bullshit they gave me about their insurance.
Learned a tough lesson from that one.
I rented a car from Hertz this weekend and the desk person blatantly lied about the coverage provided by my credit card. Who knows if he’s instructed to say that or not, but it’s shady either way.
I have to go by length of time I have hated the company and so the award goes to Electronic Arts. Or Evil Assholes, as I have called them since the 90’s. They have destroyed so much of what I loved. 😭
I remember reading with dread any time EA acquired one of my favourite studios.
RIP
- Westwood
- Bullfrog
- Maxis
- Codemasters
- Bioware
RIP NFL 2K. I never forgot you and I’ll never forgive.
For me it ubisoft. They’ve made some of my favorite series, then completely ruined them.
One day my rocksmith 2014 isn’t going to work because they shut down the servers, and the over a thousand dollars I’ve spent on guitars, songs, cables, and pedals are going to be, well, not useless, but pretty close to it.
Hard to top Meta right now. Propaganda enables all the other bullshit from the likes of Nestle, fossil fuel companies, certain car makers, surveillance companies etc., and people don’t even get that Facebook and Instagram are even an issue beyond “social media is inherently bad”-sentiments (in contrast to x/twitter, which saw a large exodus recently).
Though if I’m honest, it’s not just social media - even “respectable” print and tv publications have been pushing the “brown people are violent criminals”-narrative, which is pretty much entirely a fabrication according to statistics (at least here in Germany).
facebook/meta deliberately sows misinformation with the help with russia to drive up revenue sources , turns out conservatives are very easy pickings for advertisements. Ive seen youtber run to Facebooks, because they whining how a sub was making them look bad.
“brown people are violent criminals”-narrative, which is pretty much entirely a fabrication
I’d love to see a source on that to have something to send to xenophobes
Uline, owned by the Unihleins. They contribute millions of dollars to the most extreme republicans in Illinois and other states. They funded Bruce Rauner and Daren Bailey. They were behind fake newspapers being mailed and fearmongering cashless bail.
They are also behind the scheme to have a downstate judge try to hold the governor in contempt over mask mandates.
They also help run “Illinois policy institute”
Are they the ones behind the post cards/flyers asking you to quit your union and buy a console or go on a vacation with the approximately $700 you would potentially save?
the antiunion/buy a console instead poster was delta airlines in 2019.
The Janus in Janus v. AFSCME works for Illinois Policy, so probably.
I’m really starting to dislike Google recently. The amount of things that simply don’t work after their Gemini integration has me fuming. I have a pixel tablet I mainly use as a smart hub, Me: “Hey Google, what’s the weather like today”, Assistant: “I don’t know”. What do you mean you don’t know? That’s the one question you ever get asked.
Google switches an old system for something new, releases it half-baked, and never parodies the features.
I reverted back to the old Google Assistant and now it can set alarms by voice command again.
It’s absolutely ridiculous how they keep breaking what is working.
Google has such potential, but their management structure just ruins everything. I wish they would be broken up into multiple companies. Then maybe at least some of their products and creativity would be allowed to thrive.
GrapheneOS runs on the pixel tablet
I think Google is neck and neck with Microsoft these days. Which is crazy given the past 20 years.
I much prefer Microsoft to Google.
I hate MS in some markets, but don’t mind it as much in others. Can’t say the same about Google.
The only thing I use assistant for on my phone, is asking for navigation. Eg, while driving somewhere I haven’t been before, “hey google, navigate to <address>”.
Before Gemini: Opens google maps, finds the address, starts navigation, and works perfectly.
After Gemini: “Hmm, I don’t know how to ‘navigate to’. Let me google that for you. Here are your search results for ‘navigate to <address>’, you’re welcome”.
Lemmy seems to have a very strong voice for pushing people towards Linux… But I don’t hear nearly enough about ditching Google and other mega-corps. I started Degoogling long ago and have been really happy with the result. There are lots of alternatives and there’s no reason to stick with Google the way people do. Your description of half-baked shitty products is their hallmark. Their bloody search doesn’t even work well anymore and that’s what the whole business got launched on.
Lemmy please strongly considering De-googling. It’s quite easy for almost all services.
Why use Google docs, when you can download pdflatex for free?
As a teacher, I also strongly reccomend degoogling. Google flagrantly ignores FERPA. The private info of students is safer with Microsoft of all things, but traditional Windows laptop can’t compete with the cheap-ass Chromebook which means schools are quickly switching to the Google ecosystem.
Holy, don’t get me started on ChromeOS.
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I just started trying to de-google and I’m having a really difficult time with the search engines. I switched to duckduckgo on recommendation and while it’s nice not to have the AI response (that was my biggest bother), I’m having a really difficult time getting good results for local businesses and like even tv shows. I know a lot of it is that Google is spying on me so it’ll usually know what I’m getting at even if my search wasn’t the best, but I’m just not sure how I can improve my queries or what I’m doing wrong.
I use Brave search and that serves me well (although Lemmy really hates the founder of Brave and my comment is going to get a lot of downvotes). If you need to use google, then you can reduce the data gathering as much as possible by using startpage for google search results.
Degopgling isn’t an “all-or-nothing” endeavour. Even if you start using google 20% less, then that’s still progress and you can improve slowly over time.
Yes that dude is a POS but thank you for your response. I did find that brave unfortunately had better results than DDG when I used it before. I’ve never tried startpage so I’ll give it a shot, thanks!
Nestle. Other big corporations may steal my data and manipulate their users, but nestle deprives people of the basic right of being able to drink.
Child labor and slavery!
Also, it pollutes our waters with plastic and poison everyone (including turtles, even if they are burning!)
Fuck Nestle is always obligatory.
Vampires, slavers, and directly responsible for the deaths of 10 million infants across the world.
Hell better be hot.
Comcast/Xfinity. Installed home security equipment I told them wouldn’t work, then once it turned out it didn’t, they charged me $1000+ for the equipment that they took back, but somehow misplaced. Two years of calls later, they finally ground me down. It’s the one company I refuse to call for my elderly mother when she has trouble with them.
BofA is a close second. Emptied out my little kid’s saving account with fees (even though they said it was a free account when we opened it, so we didn’t bother checking the statements). Hit us up for multiple overdraft fees, then offered to return only three months’ worth of just the fees.
They can all burn in hell.
Credit Unions are the way to go unless you’re looking for high-yield and brokerage accounts. Sorry that happened.
Except that many, many, MANY credit unions have converted to banks (or at least offering exactly the same or even lower rates than banks) but don’t change the name.
I have been screwed by my credit union a dozen times. Like me trying to open a Roth IRA with them when I was in my first year of university and they opened a CD and named it “Roth IRA” and I get like 2% interest on it.
I hate Comcast/Xfinity with such a passion I tell myself if I had the same hatred for a person I’d be in jail for murder.
Not only did they impose their “trial data caps” in my area and charge me out the ass for going over 2TB a month, I acceded once to being upsold and was told it was completely reversible within a month. After realizing the sales shithead lied to me about the features, I called to revert. Guess what? They couldn’t. It wasn’t something they could do. Fortunately I recorded all my calls, but even with that it took me more than 30 hours of phone and chat time to get it fixed, and the agent who finally helped me had to setup a recurring account credit to fix it. Absolutely horrid. She basically clarified, without saying it outright, that the sales shithead lied to my face because they’re practically encouraged to.
Long story short my home purchase decision was influenced greatly by those shitheads not being in the area, and just seeing an ad makes me want to vandalize it. It’s the only thing I hate with this much passion.
Just about every store that sells groceries in person. It was traumatic being a kid trapped in those places for at least 10 hours on both Saturday and Sunday and having to wait until Monday night to sleep. I absolutely love amazon subscribe & save and just never running out of necessities or needing to do any chores on my work days. Adulthood is so much better than glorified prison.
Lemmy: What’s your opinion.
OP: Right here.
Lemmy: FUCK YOU!
I’ve noticed lemmy hates home automation and online shopping, and would rather drive to a store to buy groceries and bring them home to show off how Not Lazy they are. I expected it.
I really cannot enter these stores for more than 10 minutes without feeling like I’m going to vomit or have a panic attack. I only order online pickup or only shop for one item if I ever go in those places, and I can never go to a costco or bj’s ever again without dredging up memories of being trapped in those places and also abused as a kid in a stupid institution masquerading as a school.
Working at a warehouse for 12 hours is no problem since I get a break every 2.5 hours where I can go outside, I get paid overtime, and I’m also not forced to wear a mountain climber jacket in a heated building the whole time while hungry and dehydrated. Oh right and I get to sit every 2.5 hours instead of standing and walking the whole time and I can leave early if I’m feeling sick, have other things I need to deal with, or because I feel like it.
I’m not understanding. You were trapped in grocery stores all weekend as a child, and you weren’t allowed to sleep? How exactly does that work?
The only things a family’s mother cared about was grocery shopping and watching people die on TV. Anything that got in the way of that was a problem.
One of her daughters can drive, and every Saturday and Sunday, she’d drive the whole family to Stop & Shop, Walmart, Target, Costco, another Costco, another Target, an international market, another international market, a Chinese market, an Indian market, Aldi, Lidl, BJ’s Wholesale, and Sam’s Club. These grueling journeys would last 15 hours.
Bringing in the groceries and trying to fill an already overfilled refrigerator with duct tape from last week’s journey took several hours. On Sundays we had to take out trash, which included old meat and produce that family’s mother over-overbought for herself and let rot while blaming the same people she vilified for eating some of. Taking out trash was always a five hour slog, but on Sunday it was a longer slog.
By the time the trash is out and that family’s mother’s groceries are in the fridge and freezer, everyone would need to rush to get ready to go to school or work. I always had to skip a shower on Mondays as me washing myself was seen as a waste of resources and time by everyone in that family as I don’t count as a real human being.
And yes, Monday NIGHT. Not afternoon, night. There were dogs that family’s mother brought home and neglected and skimped out on everything for so she could buy more groceries and watch more rich people pretend to die. We would need to walk them, not in the afternoon, but at night, and we were not allowed to sleep before walking them. She found it funny and would come up with some other excuse for why we needed to wait to sleep.
Same thing happened on Wednesdays but without the grocery shopping. Can’t sleep before walking the dogs or taking out the trash, the latter being started at 1AM and taken out at 6AM.
Childhood is prison. Literally it’s being raised to be clean and healthy, then being bullied and humiliated for doing the right things, then being punished and reprimanded for not doing the thing you were literally bullied and humiliated for doing. Fuck childhood.
I should add that my life was sitting on a short bus for 2 hours, then sitting in the same desk for 7 hours straight, then sitting on the short bus for 2.5 hours to go isolate myself from my original bullies and their mother.
Fucking hell. How are you hanging in there now?
Barely. However I got promoted at work and I train people now so I have that going for me. Taking my life feels like a waste since I did so much to save myself, but I still regret not dying since I now need to live permanently stunted :/
Die we all will, so might as well try living… well, fuck that for now, I know high-motivational-speaches do not work when you don’t see much value in living. You managed to get this far, and this is not a small feat, so please take my appreciation I would never be able to train anyone in anything, damn, just not the type of a person. What do you train people to do?
Thanks. I train them to work at Amazon delivery stations, doing the individual tasks they may be assigned to do. The tasks seem intimidating but they’re very very easy lol just physically demanding
Heh. My back started hurting when I thought of moving those weights around. I am no psychiatrist, but hey, now you have one more guy who wants you to live as long as the body can carry you
Lost in the Supermarket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZw23sWlyG0
Great song, I forgot about it so thanks for reminding me it existed
No problem. One of my favorites.
Honestly just try to avoid American companies like the plague. Used to have a couple of Makerbot printers, and the support is some of the worst I’ve ever experienced. Switching to the European Prusa printers was an eye-opener as to what good quality printers and support actually is. Shout-out to Prusa!
Starbucks. They moved into my neighborhood and put a bunch of small business owners (cafes) out of business including one owned by a very good friend.
Nestle. obvs
Yandex.
In Russia, Yandex is, like, everywhere, and it is a massive evil.
- Search, maps, mail, browser, cloud, and everything else Google offers? Check.
- Music, films? Uh-huh.
- Taxi and food delivery? Gotcha.
- Tickets to anything from a bus or a train to a concert venue? Yes.
- Four marketplaces and one freelance platform? All Yandex.
- Tax processing? Yes!
- Home assistant? Yep.
It’s increasingly hard to avoid, and it is absolutely everywhere. Its use can be mandated by your workplace and in various state institutions, and for the rest, it has acquired so much of everything that going Yandex-free in Russia is one step away from going Amish. It’s way way worse and more incidious than Google could ever hope for.
Tyson foods. They raise, torture, and kill 40 million animals per week. There’s probably no other entity in the history of our planet that’s responsible for more total suffering.
Microsoft, because I lived through the 80s and 90s.
Most companies become evil after they grow big. Some companies become big by being evil. Microsoft is the latter.
Imagine the progress the computer industry could have made without Microsoft killing any every bit of competition. Although sometimes I wonder if Linux wouldn’t have taken off as a reaction.
A cynic might say that we’d then just have a slightly more powerful and even less innovative IBM.
That’s a really hard question. I immediately wanna jump out and yell NVIDIA, Apple, Meta, etc. because of their incredibly shitty anti-consumer and predatory practices but then I’m reminded seemingly “good” companies are just as bad if not worse, like Valve making billions by turning children into gambling addicts. So, I guess all of them?
Everything Elon touches
