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What are you boycotting right now and why? Are there any Boycotts you've ended?

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.

Bloodwoodsrisen ,
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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.

Floey ,

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.

jcit878 ,

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.

padge ,

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

bartolomeo ,
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Products and services that rely on exploitation, and those that come from countries involved in human rights violations (Israel, China, USA, Russia, Saudi to name a few). You bet your ass I buy almost nothing XD, just local food and used clothes from private individuals, sometimes thrift stores if they are local and don’t violate the first rule.

waterbogan , (edited )

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

Leviathan ,

-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

emberwit , (edited )

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

tnarg42 ,

The state of Florida. They don’t need my tourist dollars right now. When they can figure out state government again, I’ll consider spending my money there. They have no shortage of tourists, but I know it’s not my money propping up that insanity.

bartolomeo ,
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I believe Florida doesn’t have sales tax so your tourist dollars don’t even go to DeSantis and cro.

Sunny_710 ,

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. 😁

jcit878 ,

thry seem really into the bans recently. the shit I’ve had said to me over the years, the abused ‘self harm’ button that no action was ever taken on, but say “fuck off cooker” to some idiot rambling about Pfizer “doomers need their latest booster” and that lands a permanent ban.

not that I give a shit and it couldn’t have happened at a better time really, but yeah, noticed quite a few people on bans or suspensions for really mild stuff lately

PlantbasedChe ,

All meat and animal origin products

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Fast food. It’s all disgusting fucking garbage, the customer service is horrible, delivery services rip you off non-stop, and their business practices are completely unethical and cruel. So I decided, “fuck them all” and started cooking for myself. Nowadays I make food that’s leaps and bounds ahead of that pig swill I used to gulp down, even comparable to a lot of restaurants.

You don’t actually need most businesses to survive, especially food service. Food service is arguably the easiest aspect of society to gain true independence from.

GnuLinuxDude ,
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The benefits are numerous. By cooking at home you can ensure that it’s healthier, cooked thoroughly with sanitary handling, impress guests, pay less, and prepare it to your own taste.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

I hope at some point to just open my own joint and sell food that is not fucking garbage.

mycatiskai ,

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.

Rinna , (edited )
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Nestlé and big chocolate brands such as Hershey. I doubt they’ll stop their human rights violations until they face actual repercussions so I’m probably gonna keep it that way.

SendMePhotos ,

It’s surprising how much candy, specifically chocolate candies, are sold every single day. I never knew that people ate so much chocolate!

Rinna , (edited )
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I still eat chocolate, I just try to limit it to stuff that’s slave free. The biggest brands tend to be shit in comparison to a lot of smaller slave free brands anyway.

rljkeimig ,

I’m still boycotting Wizards of the Coast over the OGL drama. In addition to being against open and shared content in their game system, I was getting tired of their half baked books with no substance coming so frequently that I just couldn’t keep up with it. When they announced their own Virtual Tabletop software, I knew it was only a matter of time before you couldn’t even play D&D 5e on another platform so I bailed and I’m not looking back.

emberwit ,

being against open and shared content

Absolute newb regarding non-video games here. What do you mean by that? How do they stop players from sharing content?

rljkeimig ,

So, part of what it seems like they were doing was setting up their new license to begin restricting smaller creators and groups from being able to create premium content for their game system without paying exorbitant fees to WotC.
Also if they create a “preferred” VTT system or environment that they own, only release official content to this system, they kill other VTTs that their audience is already using, and push them all to their software. Notes from meetings with WotC and Hasbro all began to sound like a big push to add microtransactions to a tabletop game and corner their audience into spaces where they will get a piece of any profit being made related to D&D, which is a far cry from the open and collaborative license that we had all enjoyed up until recently. It is all just scummy corporate bs and I’m not going to give them any more of my money until they stop.

emberwit ,

Whats VTT, virtual table top? Like a companion app to support playing sessions? Sounds like they were more open regarding custom content than they legally had to in the past and now they are taking these grants away from the community? Like using official content and names in custom adventures and selling them?

rljkeimig ,

Yeah, a virtual tabletop, which due to covid, have exploded in popularity over the last few years. What it really feels like in the community was that between the “Golden Age” of D&D 3-3.5 and even the “Dark Ages” of 4th edition, the publishers at Wizards of the Coast at the time had intended to license most of the ability to make and create content for D&D and share it openly and the original Open Games License at the time was written such that it couldn’t be revoked and that content for D&D would be able to be created and shared openly. The new OGL being pushed by WotC attempts to retract the previous license and includes language that states that WotC owns or has rights to any and all content published for D&D by third party homebrewers, and any profits made up to a ridiculously high number made by third parties was owed to WotC, which is a complete 180 from the previous OGL and many people were rightfully angry about it.

emberwit ,

Thank you for explaining!

averyfalken ,

Besides 3.5 is better /s mostly. Its my preferred system but enjoy what you like

rljkeimig ,

I’ve almost entirely switched to Pathfinder at this point and I’m having a great time.

averyfalken ,

First end or second edition I have been on first since wotx pulled their bs with 4th edition

rljkeimig ,

Second, I’m looking at the 1e adventures though, I might have to delve into them, even if I’m rewriting them for 2e.

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