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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In and Out for banning mask usage at their stores in CA.

Keep in mind I live in California so it's kind of everywhere. And tasty. And cheap.

But it aint right, let your employees wear a mask of they need to or want to.

Oh chik fil a too but that's been going on for like... over ten years? I almost forgot they existed, with their overcooked chicken.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

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