Oh you know, school, the marriage institution, the CPS, Autism Speaks, the usual.
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Cheaperthandirt.com has pulled enough stunts to make me permanantly shun them. The thing that sticks out the most for me is canceling confirmed orders so that they could turn around and put items back on their storepage for a massively inflated price.
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.
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
Ever since the whole chat reporting thing coming to mincemeat java edition, I have boycotted that for the Mintest game engine just because I ain't willing to play a voxel sandbox game where I can get banned all because I feel like being an adult and saying profanity.
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
Microsoft, Google
No
well i guess im boycotting Reddit and then uhhh i guess il boycott uhhh ns-nope uhh mabye tenor yea i suppose that
Amazon, Google (except for YouTube, there's really no alternative), Facebook, Twitter and social media in general, EA, Ubisoft and Epic Games, NestlΓ© and food with excessive plastic wrapping, food delivery services
Streaming services in general. I haven't watched a single TV series for almost a decade.
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.
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A lot of stuff. All streaming services. I even boycott entire us states, at least where applicable.