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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.

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[–] mycotropic@geekdom.social 3 points 1 year ago

@TootSweet I've injested food from chickfila once in my life and entered a walmart four times and purchased something twice. As an adult I've been in Texas twice and spent some money there both times, once on a motorcycle tour and once for a conference. I will not go back again for any reason until they reinstate human rights. Same with Florida and a few other states. I know that there're good people there and in the two businesses I mentioned but I'll go elsewhere, thanks.
#EndFacism #NazisRaus

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dom@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

But also fuck bell. And fuck Rogers.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Oh you know, school, the marriage institution, the CPS, Autism Speaks, the usual.

[–] Sunny_710@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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. 😁

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[–] emberwit@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

Nestle is my only major boycott but also technically Hasbro. Still play DND but I'm moving to pathfinder soon. Hasbro doesn't get a dime tho

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

-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

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

well i guess im boycotting Reddit and then uhhh i guess il boycott uhhh ns-nope uhh mabye tenor yea i suppose that

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of stuff. All streaming services. I even boycott entire us states, at least where applicable.

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