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What's your list of banned brands?

What brands do you avoid at all cost? I don’t keep up with the news all that much, and many of the reasons to avoid something don’t make it there anyway. So I’m asking here to make a big list of things to avoid. It could be anything from bad security practices to really frustrating packaging. Working as a cashier myself, I definitely know there are plenty of brands I avoid purely on the basis that their product is a pain to stock.

On the flip side, what’s the alternative? If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?

Nemo ,

Coke. Assassinating union leaders is not something I can stomache.

black0ut ,
@black0ut@pawb.social avatar

CocaCola did what?? Why didn’t I know that? Guess I’m a pepsi guy now, wow.

hal_5700X , (edited )

Gillette. Due to their toxic masculinity ad. Why are they talking about that stuff? I went to them for shaving stuff, not for a talk about toxic masculinity or whatever. The good thing about the ad. It got me into safety razors. They’re way better then cartridge razors. So thank you, Gillette. For making me stop using cheap plastic razors.

SethranKada OP ,
@SethranKada@lemmy.ca avatar

Reasonable. Personally, I never learned how to use a razor, so I just use an electric shaver. It doesn’t give as good a cut, but I’m happy to contribute to a boycott anyway.

ladfrombrad ,
@ladfrombrad@lemdro.id avatar

Personally, I never learned how to use a razor

🤔

Alright. Ima be ur daddy and tell you have to shave in 3 minutes flat.

  • Acquire some BIC single blade razors
  • Head to shower, put it on steaming hot and apply steaming hot water to face. Getting a hot towel after getting out of the shower and leaving it on your face for a while makes a tough shave even moar comfortable.
  • Lather shaving foam all over face
  • Run BIC razor under cold running water and shave until your face is like a baby’s bum
  • Rinse thoroughly with cold water to remove all lather
AlligatorBlizzard ,

If it’s the ad I’m thinking of, I actually kinda liked it. But I definitely agree with you on the safety razors. Better shave and better for the planet. Don’t buy plastic cartridge razors, you’re getting ripped off and needlessly contributing to the plastic problem. Now if only I could find blades that a 100 pack didn’t mean 20 plastic 5-packs of blades, but it still is a lot less waste than a cartridge razor.

Blizzard ,

Same here. It got me to try other brands (I used to buy Gillette out of a habit) and all of them turned out to be better and cheaper. In the end - Wilkinson for the win!

Also, you got me to look up what a safety razor is. Looks classy!

Mothra ,
@Mothra@mander.xyz avatar

McDonald’s.

I’m not much into fast food but if I’m craving a burger and chips I’ll get it from a pub.

xilliah ,

It’s cheaper too, over here at least. I need to pay 18 euros to get what I want, and it isn’t uncommon to be treated disrespectfully.

Whereas a really good fish and chips is like 11 euros here and you can have a fun little chat with the owner or whatever.

DirigibleProtein ,

Crowdstrike
Microsoft

BroChiMinh ,

Nestlé, Amazon, Coca Cola, Mars & its associates, Mondelez (“Kraft” for the 'muricans). I try to avoid basically any corporation greedy enough to go against human rights in the name of profits.

Supervisor194 ,
@Supervisor194@lemmy.world avatar

Dollar, Hertz and Thrifty car rental. Also Budget, but for different reasons.

Never use Dollar, Hertz or Thrifty under any circumstances unless you want to be fucked. Never prepay with Budget unless you want to be fucked.

__init__ ,

Can confirm, got fucked by Hertz last time I rented a car. Who’s your go to?

Supervisor194 ,
@Supervisor194@lemmy.world avatar

I truly do not know. I was using Budget, my truck was in the shop and two days’ rental was going to be $142. Two hours after reserving it my mechanic tells me he’s going to have me done today - so I cancel the reservation.

Because I chose “pay now” rather than “pay later”, I’m charged a $150 cancellation fee on a $142 rental (the fee posted on the website - $50 - is not for “prepaid” “same day” cancellations - not that the website told me this anywhere obvious, of course).

So I literally would have done better financially to drive the fucking thing around for two days for no good reason.

Protesting to customer service gets me a resounding “go fuck yourself.”

I’m now open to suggestions, I was using Budget because they had the best prices of what remained to me, but never again.

__init__ ,

Damn. I’d have tried a chargeback, especially if their site is incorrect or misleading (idk how recently this was). It’s damn near impossible to see who actually has the best prices because you can’t tell what anything really costs until they tack on all the horse shit fees after returning the car.

xilliah ,

Whatsapp is difficult for me to avoid, but I’ve been pulling it off for years now.

Honestly here in the NL it’s almost as if people see it as some sort of government institution. We have neighborhood watches on there and they openly display the logo as a form of security measure. Honestly it’s kinda creepy that that kinda stuff flows through their opaque servers and software.

I’d prefer an open and distributed protocol, with the largest node being government run. You can’t avoid such large nodes, so it’s better if they are run by a centralized democratic system. Aka @gmail.com, Lemmy.ml, mastadon.social (did I get that right?)

Tak ,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

This is always so shocking to me as an American where not many people use Whatsapp. I wouldn’t doubt if snapchat is more common than Whatsapp in the states.

Don_Dickle ,

Late to the apparent party but Phillip Morris . They own a shitton of food and pot licences.

kenkenken ,
@kenkenken@sh.itjust.works avatar
  1. Apple
  2. Meta (but actually it effectively avoids me, I not much avoid it)
  3. Nazi states (the new axis powers) affiliated brands when I can, especially for the tech companies.

If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?

Tea, probably.

andrewta ,

Hyundai . i will never buy another one again. ever.

seats are hard as rocks. they break down way to fast. the rear view mirror is set way to low in the window creating a safety hazard for looking forward. it needs to be set much higher on the window. (so i have to look up a little to see the mirror… so f’ing what?!) get the damned thing higher so it doesn’t block my view when i try to look front and right of the car.

that’s just a few of my annoyances with that car. i’m done with that company.

Hugh_Jeggs ,

☝️Note - only applicable in North America

They have virtually zero consumer protection laws so companies can get away with selling utter crap at inflated prices, and so obviously, they do.

Samsung home appliances, Hyundai and Kia cars, TVs with adverts built in (lol) are just a couple of examples of good quality products that have specific models that they only sell in the US because they can get away with it

Perfectly fine to buy them elsewhere

hperrin ,

I avoid Nemix RAM, because the first time I bought a bunch of sticks from them, they had an 18% failure rate. I paid to ship the bad sticks back, and they sent me more bad sticks. Nemix said they worked fine, so I sent them the Memtest screenshot with all the errors. They didn’t want to pay shipping to replace them again, so I just returned them and got some Micron RAM, and it’s been working perfectly.

CaptainBasculin ,

EA got my account stolen with 1200+ hours of playtime via fraudulent support tickets. That’s why, I am not touching anything EA’s involved with ever when they absolutely suck at account security.

grue ,

Sony, for all sort of reasons (the rootkit and other DRM, pushing proprietary formats like MemoryStick and ATRAC3, removing OtherOS (a.k.a. Linux) support from the Playstation, etc.).

Blizzard, because of Freecraft and BNetD (I was boycotting them long before they merged with Activision).

Ideally, I would boycott Nestle and the other abusive agri-conglomerates, but honestly probably a lot of their products slip through because (a) it’s hard to tell what’s made by who because of all the subsidiary brands, and (b) with all the consolidation, pretty much everything is made by some shitty megacorp these days. I mean yeah, if I eschewed normal chain stores entirely and tried to buy everything from local small businesses or something then I guess I could avoid them, but ain’t nobody got time (or money!) for that.

BassTurd ,

Broadcom

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