Digg, I don't even remember why. It's been like 10 years.
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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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
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
I try to boycott conventionally/industrial produced groceries as much as possible, since organic food is not only better for your health, but also tastes better and doesn't kill all the insects, exhaust the soil or exploiting animals as much as possible. The price is a big downside though
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Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Uber, HP.
Also, specifically in France: Casino, Monoprix, Leader-Price (now owned by Casino).
Ubisoft, for at least 10 years.
Reddit since the API changes were announced
Many things actually. I'm in the process of degoogling and ditching ms office. Ditched reddit. Ditched discord. I'm also ditching android apps and switching to FOSS versions if i can find them. And today i ditched Startpage. I just found this article about them: https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group/
I'm also trying to get rid of plastic and replacing plastic things if i can. So, no more plastic cutting boards, switched them for glass ones. Dental floss in a cardboard box. Things like that.
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Does your Hasbro boycott extend to the products of others licensing rights from them?
Because, though I totally get and agree with your point about Hasbro, having to skip Baldurs Gate 3 would be a huge test of your resolve if you're anything like me 😁
Red Bull (loved their cola) and War Thunder. One has a Nazi Boss and the other is just shitty to its players.
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.
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
Totally boycotting micro$oft (except for leeching from github)
boycotting Israel as much as I can (a medication I depend on comes from there, unfortunately)
Fast food, it's just bad and unhealty
eBay as a buyer, selling stuff there opened my eyes as how much that platform sucks.
AAA game studios, kinda. I just pirate them.
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Amy's Foods until the strikers say otherwise. I support BDS always. No fast food, no fast fashion.
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.
All meat and animal origin products
I’m trying to avoid products made in China, with varying success.
Am also vegetarian if I get the choice (which isnt always)
Edit; I appear to also be boycotting fast fashion if unintentionally. I wear clothes until they are worn out and then some
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, food delivery services
-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
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. 😁
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