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.
@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 #NazisRausCoke, for assassinating union organizers.
I boycott Coke because it’s bad for you.
Nestlé. That’s pretty much it. Have been doing that for quite some time, but for the last 2 years or so I actively check that the company doesn’t belong to them.
Do you have a list of products / companies they own? I would happily make use of that list.
Wikipedia has a decent list, but Nestlé isn’t hiding it. All their subbrands I ever saw have something like ‘a Nestlé cooperation’ on them, sometimes there’s a delay after they buy a new brand, though.
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
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.
I stopped using Apple products since the time when they convert my mp3s to an iTunes derivative. Never buying/using Apple again.
nestle. man fuck nestle
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.
I traditionally never back any lottery but when they break $1 Billion the ROI becomes too high not to toss in a few dollars. I’ve bought only seven lottery tickets in my life and won big on Powerball playing when the jackpot was huge. Playing every week, that is where you get in trouble.
It’s not dumb to spend $10 on 5 tickets and spend the next 2-4 hours imagining / discussing what I would do with the winnings. It’s basically a movie ticket for my imagination, costs the same amount, and lasts about the same amount of time. I call that worth it for a bit of fun every year or so when the jackpot gets really high.
Why boycott apple?
I will not be upgrading my MacBook Air 2017 with a new Mac when it dies. This was the last year that you could replace the SSD, a part that is guaranteed to fail in time. All new Macs have soldered in SSDs that cannot be replaced. There are more reasons but that’s enough for me, I’m done with Macs (after owning many over the decades since getting my first in 1986).
I thought they were pushing a “right to repair” bill /s
Welcome to Linux when it dies
Steam, last year I logged in via browser to check something, and it was showing I’ve not been online for 8 years.
Fuck Steam and this whole drm/application crap they normalised. Yes others are worse, but I’m not accepting it.
No offense but this is a bad take. They didn’t normalize DRM. DRM was a thing before steam was around. And DRM companies like Denuvo are going to Game Devs and Publishers to sell them their DRM, not steam.
You’re mad at the wrong company.
Well I mean this kind of online activation tied to a program kind of drm. This wasn’t a thing before Steam outside of MMOGs.
I’m mad at the right company. It’s just for some damn reason Valve is still heralded as the indie darling that made Half-Life, and not the monopolistic marketplace corporation that it’s been for 10+ years.
I repeat: yes there are worse companies. That doesn’t make Steam or Valve good.
While overall I agree with this, their work on advancing gaming on Linux makes it easy to look the other way.
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.
I totally forgot about non-anonymous social media.
I don’t buy Nestle products.
Amazon. Fuck Amazon.
Chinese products. After living there for a decade, I now actively try and avoid buying products made there—or Chinese companies—at the least.
I’ve seen a lot of people I know try to avoid Chinese companies but they weren’t concerned about the products which seemed a little odd to me. For example they’d pay $25 for a 6 ft USB C cable at a gas station instead of buying the same cable from Ali Express for a third of the price.
Blizzard. After the Blitzchung incident I uninstalled every one of their games and haven’t played anything Blizzard since.
Once the merger is complete with Microsoft I’ll probably start playing them again.
Good old ethical Microsoft.
I am appreciative of the irony.
Although my rationale is that Microsoft is less likely to sell out western democracy.
Except they are selling out, their ad revenue, telemetry, cloud services, development and support, all dominated by outsourcing at any cost on the race to the bottom
I won’t defend Microsoft but aside from open source software, which software company is NOT engaged in those practices?
Open source is the business model. Majority of systems and soon enough applications agnostic of platform.
I’ll be happy when the leadership is gone. So many fucked things happened under their watch. The over watch player being fired then rehired because they said free Hong Kong. Or the announcers who were fired because they were on screen when the player said something. The pile of sexual harassment cases that blizzard settled. Then the obvious intense money grab that their games have become.
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.
