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.
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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.
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.
A lot of stuff. All streaming services. I even boycott entire us states, at least where applicable.
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.
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.
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.
Oh you know, school, the marriage institution, the CPS, Autism Speaks, the usual.
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.