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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[โ€“] 21 points 3 years ago

Reddit - API fiasco, antagonistic, and predictable

Facebook - it's crap

Instagram - popularity contest

WhatsApp - unnecessary

Snapchat - unnecessary

TikTok - Chinese spyware

Microsoft - bloat and privacy

Adobe - expensive and slow

Twitter/X - crap

Elon Musk news - annoying

Oil change places - rip off & untrustworthy

Tire places except for Costco - rip off

Toyota dealerships - shady and deceptive

Apple - expensive and limiting

Netflix - crap

Hulu - crap

Wendy's - crap

KFC - crap

Bottled water - expensive and wasteful

Sodas - terrible for health

Papa Johns - treats employees like shit, crap politics, expensive

Panda Express - generic, local places are better

Pollo Tropical - generic, local places are better

Checking & savings banks - credit unions are much better for their customers

American cars - crap

BMW - for dickheads and too expensive

HOAs - waste of money, too controlling

Autism Speaks - more harmful than good

Susan G Komen - selfish litigators

Better Help - pays their clinicians shit, so you're getting bottom of the barrel therapy

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