If you want to watch honor among thieves but don't want to support Hasbro, just raise the black flag (and your VPN) and pirate it
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Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Uber, HP.
Also, specifically in France: Casino, Monoprix, Leader-Price (now owned by Casino).
Several things but the most interesting one to others might be Firehouse Subs. Got treated like shit at one over a decade ago and have boycotted ever since.
I guess I've effectively boycotted McDonald's too. I'd rather go without food than go to McDonald's. Doesn't taste good so I'd rather not waste my money.
I've had to tell friends several times that I don't eat at these places.
Many things actually. I'm in the process of degoogling and ditching ms office. Ditched reddit. Ditched discord. I'm also ditching android apps and switching to FOSS versions if i can find them. And today i ditched Startpage. I just found this article about them: https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group/
I'm also trying to get rid of plastic and replacing plastic things if i can. So, no more plastic cutting boards, switched them for glass ones. Dental floss in a cardboard box. Things like that.
Ubisoft, for at least 10 years.
Reddit since the API changes were announced
Twitter, barilla, chik-fil-a, hobby lobby, papa johns, reddit
Twitter is a cess pool and reddit is bafflingly going down the same path. Barilla attempted to change its image but I dont trust anything that suddenly claims to care once money is involved. Chik-fil-a and hobby lobby are still run by religious nutbars and I dont see a point in going to papa johns after years of going elsewhere and making my own pizza when I feel like it. Also they died off immediately in my area after the controversy came out lol. So I'd have to go out of my way to eat there.
Amy's Foods until the strikers say otherwise. I support BDS always. No fast food, no fast fashion.
I'm boycotting porn
Red Bull (loved their cola) and War Thunder. One has a Nazi Boss and the other is just shitty to its players.
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
Totally boycotting micro$oft (except for leeching from github)
boycotting Israel as much as I can (a medication I depend on comes from there, unfortunately)
Fast food, it's just bad and unhealty
eBay as a buyer, selling stuff there opened my eyes as how much that platform sucks.
AAA game studios, kinda. I just pirate them.
Does your Hasbro boycott extend to the products of others licensing rights from them?
Because, though I totally get and agree with your point about Hasbro, having to skip Baldurs Gate 3 would be a huge test of your resolve if you're anything like me π
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.
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.
All meat and animal origin products
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
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.
Reddit.
Had an account for 9.5 yrs.
-First they kill all the good 3rd party apps.
-Then I get called a βfucking idiotβ 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 thatβs dying. They donβt deserve my input. π
Yea Nintendo for sure. For such a company that makes such fun and charming games they have such shitty business practices and their hardware sucks
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.