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submitted 1 year ago by TootSweet@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 1 year ago

I don't buy any Catalan products and avoid Catalan online stores.

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[-] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In and Out for banning mask usage at their stores in CA.

Keep in mind I live in California so it's kind of everywhere. And tasty. And cheap.

But it aint right, let your employees wear a mask of they need to or want to.

Oh chik fil a too but that's been going on for like... over ten years? I almost forgot they existed, with their overcooked chicken.

[-] Floey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I don't really consider them boycotts because they are indefinite and I don't have any demands or don't see how they could change that would make me receptive to them.

Cars. I'll personally ride along or carpool with someone but I don't want to add another car to the world and to the road. Even if we switched over to all electric cars, they still require lots of resources to build and maintain and put a lot of demand on infrastructure and urban design.

Animal products. I am against all animal products and treating animal as commodity. We've enslaved animals all the way down to the biological level, it's unethical.

[-] padge@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft because of their abhorrent workplace and business practices. Been boycotting AB since the whole Hong Kong thing, and Ubisoft since the sexual harassment allegations. It also helps that all their games for a while have been mid ow worse.

Still trying to decide if I should draw the line at not giving them money, or not using it at all when it's something I've already paid for

[-] jcit878@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

airbnb, Chinese stuff as much as possible, newscorp, fairfax, a specific car mechanic who I caught out in an attempted repair extortion over 12 years ago now and I still badmouth them whenever the general topic arises

oh and one of my wife's acquaintances (fortunately less so these days) who is a self centred idiot, literally publicly cucked her husband and doesn't feel bad about it, just parks in the common driveway (literally the way in and out for the units behind ours) and makes excuses for her klepto kids all the time. by boycott I mean I refuse to acknowledge her presence if she's around unless it's to tell her to move her fucking car. again.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I boycott Twitter and Instagram and Reddit, Starbucks, most of the US save for New York state because of the politics, Kellogg's, and, Loblaws grocery stores. Those are just off the top of my head. I should honestly boycott more.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Is your username a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reference?

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Boycott? Nothing. Avoid like the plague? Apple, Windows, consoles like Xbox and PlayStation, Activision Blizzard and probably others I can't remember rn.

Nintendo gets a pass as I've grown up with them. Starting with a regular old DS Lite, then to a DSI XL, then the 3DS XL, and now a Switch.

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit, for reasons I'm sure everybody here knows. I do make two exceptions: first, there is one single small community on Reddit that "meets" once a week. I comment on those posts. Second, I'll allow myself to comment on posts about or related to boycotting Reddit.

Google's Android. While I don't currently want to completely switch to another Android OS, that doesn't mean I won't in the future. Currently, though, I do try to modify the OS as much as possible to protect my privacy to a reasonable extent. I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone. I run an adblocker app 24/7 on my phone. And I trusted, modified versions of apps where possible, such as ReVanced. I also recently disabled the Google Play Store and started using the Aurora Store as my default.

I guess you could call these "soft" boycotts.

I would boycott Apple, but I like Android and its ability to install apps from outside their app store way more, and Windows just makes more sense to me than a Mac, so I honestly have no need for Apple.

As for modifying Windows (like I'm doing with Android) or boycotting it, I'm sure that'll happen in time with the way things are going. I've only just recently started looking into stuff like ShutUp10 and other similar stuff, but I want to make sure I know what I'm doing since a Windows OS can be a bit more fragile than an Android OS.

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

AMD, for the last 17 years. I had an ATI card and it broke so I needed to RMA it but thats when AMD bought them out & the RMA'd card failed as well, within 48 hours - so I RMA'd again and again, same issue. RMA'd again and again, same issue. tossed the card & started using only Nvidia and have never had an issue since. fuck AMD.

cant think of anything I actively boycott, though I do avoid products that have overly enthusiastic marketing campaigns.

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