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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reddit, for reasons I'm sure everybody here knows. I do make two exceptions: first, there is one single small community on Reddit that "meets" once a week. I comment on those posts. Second, I'll allow myself to comment on posts about or related to boycotting Reddit.
Google's Android. While I don't currently want to completely switch to another Android OS, that doesn't mean I won't in the future. Currently, though, I do try to modify the OS as much as possible to protect my privacy to a reasonable extent. I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone. I run an adblocker app 24/7 on my phone. And I trusted, modified versions of apps where possible, such as ReVanced. I also recently disabled the Google Play Store and started using the Aurora Store as my default.
I guess you could call these "soft" boycotts.
I would boycott Apple, but I like Android and its ability to install apps from outside their app store way more, and Windows just makes more sense to me than a Mac, so I honestly have no need for Apple.
As for modifying Windows (like I'm doing with Android) or boycotting it, I'm sure that'll happen in time with the way things are going. I've only just recently started looking into stuff like ShutUp10 and other similar stuff, but I want to make sure I know what I'm doing since a Windows OS can be a bit more fragile than an Android OS.
Dating myself. Coca-Cola. New coke saga. Hit me at the exact point of developing a social consciousness. The absolute mercenary method of screwing around with their products.
In and Out for banning mask usage at their stores in CA.
Keep in mind I live in California so it's kind of everywhere. And tasty. And cheap.
But it aint right, let your employees wear a mask of they need to or want to.
Oh chik fil a too but that's been going on for like... over ten years? I almost forgot they existed, with their overcooked chicken.
Steam, last year I logged in via browser to check something, and it was showing I've not been online for 8 years.
Fuck Steam and this whole drm/application crap they normalised. Yes others are worse, but I'm not accepting it.