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What are you boycotting right now and why? Are there any Boycotts you've ended? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by TootSweet@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Reddit Etsy Ebay Trovo

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

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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