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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.

MonkderZweite ,

Microsoft, Google

No

Draedron ,

I try to boycott as much of Nestle as possible and Tencent

BonesOfTheMoon ,

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.

I_Has_A_Hat ,

Nothing. I’ve given up.

I am too small to make a difference, unable to convince others in my life to join, and the companies I want to boycott have grown so big that their brands are everywhere and it’s exhausting to try to keep track of them all. Plus, boycotts are pretty ineffective these days. Even in the most extreme cases, companies now know they only have to wait ~2-3 months before the masses stop caring and move on to something else.

Now I just live my life. I support causes I believe in, try to treat everyone I meet with kindness and respect, and do what I can to give myself and my family a happy, comfortable life. That’s all I can do, it may not be enough to save the world, but it’s enough to save me and those I love

daniskarma ,

I would love to end reddit boicot.

But the reddit app font is just to tiny for me use, and you can’t change it without changing your whole phone font. I tried red reader but it is so ugly I can’t use it.

So here I am, still boicoting reddit. I suppose it’s not even a boicot anymore. I just don’t like the product anymore.

cosmicrookie ,
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

Reddit Etsy Ebay Trovo

I try to avoid : Google, twitch, youtube & Amazon

DragonTypeWyvern ,

What did Etsy do?

Lazylazycat ,
@Lazylazycat@lemmy.world avatar

I want to know this too! I haven’t heard of any beef with etsy before.

Roundcat ,
@Roundcat@lemmy.ca avatar

If I can help it, I try to support local businesses over Walmart, Target, Amazon, or any other near monopolistic retail chain.

Chick-fil-A, and Hobby Lobby. Owners have been vehemently antiqueer and antichoice, and have funded such organizations and politicians through their business.

Activision/Blizzard and Ubisoft. Both have been accused of large scale sexual misconduct, and neither company has completely dealt with the issue.

Twitter and Reddit. It’s not just that I hate the direction both sites are heading, but I want to fully back and support the open source alternatives that have grown during the migrations of both sites. Besides, Musk has made it to where I can’t even lurk on Twitter if I wanted to.

JonTron. He’s living proof that as long as you’re funny, people will forgive and forget anything. (Look up his history with racism and antivax for those in the latter camp, cause I’m tired of answering the “what he do” question)

The Harry Potter franchise. This one hurt the most because I had just starting to get into the Harry Potter series as the pandemic hit, and I was halfway through Prisoner of Azkaban when Rowling started her campaign against trans people. I Also used respect Rowling a lot because she’s a master at world building, and I had gotten into reading Harry Potter cause I wanted to take inspiration from it for my own work.

Ruroni Kenshin, and Nobuhiro Watsuki’s other works. I can get why people would forgive JonTron and Rowling to an extent, but defending Nobuhiro’s pedophilia is a bridge way tf too far for me.

Akashic101 ,

A little bit different, but Caseking will never get my business. They have a booth at Gamescom right now where you can race in a simrig and try to get the best time of the day. There is also a time of a pro which you can try to beat, and if you do and are the fastest at the end of the day you get a 200€ discount on Moza Racing.

Here comes the problem though, they ran the wrong game for more than half a day (AC instead of ACC) and when telling them that with the configuration of the circuit (Nürburgring with the slower chicane as the last to last corner) the time was simply impossible to beat. They just laughed at me and making it look like I had a skill-issue and am simply not good enough to beat the time. When I came back in the last hours they switched over to ACC but were driving a wrong, slower car making the challenge still not beatable. I tried to tell them this once again but they continued to just laugh and ignore me. If you ask me they dont want anybody to win the coupon and are just ripping people off

deathbird ,

Boycotting is hard, because "no ethical consumption (etc).

That said, I boycott Wendy’s and highly, HIGHLY encourage everyone else to do so as well because they still won’t sit down with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and join the Fair Food Program.

soviettaters ,

$4 biggie bag is an insane seal though

PsychedSy ,

Epic until they start developing UT4 again.

Snapz ,

Still researching, but thinking about adding trader joes after reading this: jacobin.com/…/trader-joes-workers-independent-uni…

kent_eh ,

Any state that voted for Trump. Especially if they did it twice

2fat4that ,
@2fat4that@kbin.social avatar

More people should do this. Democrats control more wealth in this nation. We should be asking business who they support before purchasing their products and services. On top of that businesses that support the right should be openly attacked and exposed. Fascism can be starved.

TrustingZebra ,

You’re going to boycott half the US?

DragonTypeWyvern ,

They did it first.

2fat4that ,
@2fat4that@kbin.social avatar

With ease.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

I won’t travel to the US anymore save for New York state. We used to do great road trips through the US, but now that their anti LGBT and women politics and attack on drag queens have become so violent, I just won’t go there.

maniel ,
@maniel@lemmy.ml avatar

Reddit, Epic Games Store

resin85 ,

Any products that support Koch Industries. Horrible people.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/f945266b-cc4c-4d02-a257-999b9c213012.jpeg

SocialMediaSettler ,

Koch Industries is pretty much the main reason why I boycott the entire United States of America. They are the absolute pinnacle of evil in this world. Spectacular evil scum that company is.

AnyProgressIsGood ,

BP. For their incrediblely bad environment and safety record

Nestle for their baby formula shenanigans

Goya and at&t for their trump support

IvanOverdrive ,

Nestle for monopolization of water reserves all over the world. Nestle for using child labor for their chocolate.

!fucknestle

greywolf0x1 ,

Thanks for boycotting Nestle, i’m really grateful to anyone else who does so.

MajorHavoc ,

BP Executive: “Sure we massively wounded the planet with our criminal negligence - but doesn’t everyone love baseball? How about we get two more strikes?”

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