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.
Is your username a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reference?
Ha! Nope. Or at least if it is, I don’t get the reference.
I first used “TootSweet” when I signed up for Mastodon (where posts were called “toots”, at least at the time – I think there have been moves to stop calling them “toots.”) Aside from that, it’s just a play on “tout suite” which means “immediately” in French.
Amazon. Fuck Amazon.
Blizzard/Activision after all the scandals.
Google music after it changed to youtube music and changed all the music I bought and downloaded to a file format that only could play on YouTube music and you had to be online every day to validate your music. Fuck em
I’m still on my Blizzard boycott that started with the Blitzchung thing. Family and friends have tried to get me to drop it to play with them a few times, but a boycott doesn’t seem like it has much purpose (or effect) if you just drop it after a while when nothing has changed.
Yeah. Fuck Google for that. That really pisses me off. Fuck them for changing from “buy this and it’s yours” to “rent this from us forever if you want the app to work.”
At least my pruchases are backed up on the high seas.
Any products that support Koch Industries. Horrible people.
Koch Industries is pretty much the main reason why I boycott the entire United States of America. They are the absolute pinnacle of evil in this world. Spectacular evil scum that company is.
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
EA, since 2013 when they fucked up sim city.
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.
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.
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$4 biggie bag is an insane seal though
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.
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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.
Compare that with petroleum products, one can fill a tank anywhere and it works the same, as it should do.
Unless you put gas in your diesel, or diesel in your gas vehicle.
We also used to have leaded four star and two star (here in the UK). Nowadays there’s higher octane unleaded fuel. These differences serve a purpose for engines with greater compression ratios. The point about lithium battery chargers is that they can easily use the same physical interface and detect the nature of a battery using standard methods. The same way you can charge any mobile phone from any USB port - except Apple.
Battery powered hand tools are also brand specific, for no discernible reason. It’s wasteful and it will hopefully be banned.
Theres pretty much just 2 car plugs, though… Yes some tried to do their own plug, but eventually abandoned it in favor of an open standard that everyone uses… and then theres tesla, who keeps promising to open its super charger network and provide adapters/new plugs for the open standard.
its not like the late 90s of cellphones where everyone used proprietary voltages and connectors because fuck you thats why.
Technology Connections has several excellent videos on this subject.
Think about what you are saying. We have two types, that’s twice as many as we need. That means there are millions of problems that electric car users need to solve for no apparent reason or benefit.
On the other hand, why is WiFi so great? Because it works everywhere. Why does it work everywhere? Because there is one standard.
You do realize there are a LOT Wifi standards, right?
I mean, compared to WiFi, its genuinely amazing there are only two standards for electric car chargers. and the only reason 2 exists is because Tesla didnt want to share.
Sure, technology moves on and we create as we go. That evolution creates the backwards compatibility problem but it’s separate from the incompatible by design problem. These differences are cynically inserted at the interface of systems in order to assert control. I notice that HP are in hot water for operating in this space lately and have been at the vanguard of the project to make ink more expensive than gold. When farmers began their open rebellion against the closed systems of agricultural machinery makers, who also showed up in the court viewing gallery? The reigning champion of proprietary interfaces, Apple.
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Coke, for assassinating union organizers.
I boycott Coke because it’s bad for you.
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.
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
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
Amy’s Foods until the strikers say otherwise. I support BDS always. No fast food, no fast fashion.
