oracle

DuPont, source of our microplastic nightmare

Autism Speaks. It has a pro-eugenics mindset, so you'd think everyone would be boycotting it, right? Nope, in fact it's partnered with the Jim Henson company.

AT&T and basically all of the major US banks

Microsoft, although regulators sure as fuck help them make that impossible

United HealthCare

Oh wait, you CAN'T boycott them. The ultimate monopoly.

Bayer-Monsanto, John Deere, Nestle

Ticketmaster

Meta, Fox Corporation/News Corp, X

Chick-fil-A

As far as which companies "deserve" it, it would be quicker to list the ones that don't.

• Facebook
• Apple
• All of the defence contractors
• Every telecom I've ever used apart from EE and Giffgaff
• YouTube
• Any website that tries to circumvent privacy rules with fuckery
• Governments like the UK that insist prohition is a better alternative to harm reduction but continue to profit from poisons like alcohol.
• Any company that makes devices with proprietary interfaces e.g. WiFi printers, BT routers, Apple in general, Tesla, battery power tool manufacturers.
• The list goes on...

Here's my list that I avoid if and where I can. As with everything, things are nuanced and complex, and it's not like every company I personally boycott is outright bad or good all around. I wasn't going to write down the reasoning for each and every one, but ask away if you want to know about the reasoning behind particular ones. I'll also note, this is 100% not in any order (other than as they came to mind), it was time consuming enough making this vs. ranking them all!

Disney
EA
Volkswagen
Tesla
BMW
Audi
NVIDIA
Nintendo
Google
Apple
Facebook
Shell
Microsoft
X
Discord
Reddit
Old Spice
Costco
Netflix
Spotify
Nestle
Toyota
Tencent
Blizzard
Uber
DuPont
Fountain Tire
Walmart
Boeing
Brave
Princess
Moxies Group
Hewlett Packard
Amazon

On the flip side, companies that while not perfect, I think overall are doing good things that I try to support when I can (if only with word of mouth in some cases):

Valve
Framework
Firefox
Pine64
Raspberry Pi
Hyundai
Lucid
System 76
A&W
Trail Tire
Plex
Amanita Games
iBroadcast
Volvo
Napa
Fairphone

There's probably more I'm missing, I'm a pretty strong believer that companies rule most of the western world and that if individuals want the world to meaningfully improve, we have to vote with our wallets as diligently as we vote at the polling stations.

Most of them, but I'm just tired.

Bro name one that doesn't deserve it.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned in the 224 (so far) comments... but another bad guy worth hating is

Hewlett Packard.

Their

"Hey, you need to have our proprietary ink cartrige in your HP inkjet printer plus scanner to print AND to scan as well. The scanner won't work when you are out of ink"

Is just plain fuckery.

Comcast / Xfinity. Have been forced to use their services for years until a viable alternative arrived in my neighborhood, paid $110 a month for internet to be down at least 2 days a month when my wife and I both work from home. All calls and tickets and emails were met with "you're not using out router and we don't see issues on our side, sounds like a you problem".

Almost left for ancient Century Link pipe when internet was out for 17 hours one day, called 3 times and finally got a competent person on the line not saying the above. Instead said they had done maintenance in my neighborhood and when they sent someone out to look at the uplink it was magically working again. Filed for a service refund thing since it was way below the promised availability and I had to reschedule meetings because my hotspot was slow and they gave me a $1.35 refund to my $110 bill that month.

I'm sure I'm formatting this wrong, but..

/c/fucknestle

Edit: trying this out... !fucknestle@lemmy.world

Vanguard, BlackRock, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Twitter/X, any company owned by Elon Musk, pretty much every Big Tech company, Disney, almost any media company, as well as every major bank.

all of them but alas we live in a society

Disney

In this thread:

Let's boycott the gaming company that we disagree with! Also I guess that company that's using literal child slavery for their chocolate. Quite the disconnect here, I don't think the people making Mario games deserve the same punishment as the people buying up all of the housing market because they can in order to rent out said houses to the same people who were originally trying to buy them

Tobacco and oil companies. All of them.

All of the big ones

What's a company that doesnt deserve to be boycotted?

All the major meat producers. And fast food chains.

There's been so much publicized in recent years about their treatment of animals, their lobbying efforts, how they treat their employees, how they're ruining the environment, how they fix prices and force farmers to "get on board" or else. It's really bad but we don't care so much because it's hidden beyond our periphery.

I know no one wants to be told to reduce or complicate doing the things that bring you joy, but reducing your meat consumption and shopping at local producers is something we could all take small steps every year towards doing.

Nestle

Walmart

Anything made by or connected to Nestle for sure

They have a lot of blood on their hands.

There's no ethical consumption under capitalism. Like others said, name companies that deserve business because I don't know how to avoid the ones that don't. Name someone who doesn't go to(off the top of my head without googling): Chick-fil-A, Amazon, Target, Walmart, Kroger, any gas station, Nestle...any giant corpo that owns a dozen others. We can pretend boycotting works so we can feel better about having a moral high ground over other exploited workers or we can massacre the billionaire ruling class.

Bayer.

Exxon

Chevron

Shell

Google until they change their eulas wotc to stop themselves from doing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity?wprov=sfla1

I know this isn't really an option for most people but consider dropping Deloitte KPMG and all banks that aren't cooperatives.

This thread has lots of company names without references or explanations.

While " controversy" is probably a solid search term, we could do better by including "why" right in the comments.

Boycotting micro$oft till the day I die, OS monopolies (or close to it) shouldn't exist. Plus their OS is mediocre at best.

Ideally every corpo should be boycotted though. But it's quite difficult to boycott some of them (like Google, who likes to live inside every android phone, effectively having a duopoly with Apple, another really shitty company)

Every company here deserves some sort of corporate death penalty where the CEOs face consequences and the company becomes worker owned and operated.

Boycotts aren't going to kill a company. They are to influence them.

I did boycott ChikFilA when it came out they were supporting homophobic asshats. And once they announced they were dropping those charities, I stopped boycotting.

I use CVS over Walgreens as long as I can get my prescriptions at CVS due to Walgreens stances against women's health. If Walgreens ever cleans up, I would happily use them more often because they are more convenient and inexpensive for me.

I only go to Shell gas stations as a last resort because they blast ads at you while pumping gas.

Vanguard and Blackrock. Their retirement fund allow them to have a significant share of major companies when compared to individuals

Any company without a strong union.

if government agencies are possible then the nsa

I think the main take away is that this applies to most, if not all, publicly traded companies?

Dave's Auto Body shop

Nintendo

I forgot the name but that one shit company with a U that is literally as bad as Nestle

Any company that profits from animal abuse (yes meat counts).

I keep reading everywhere "fuck nestle" and then I see their 2022 FY report with sales increased to 104.95 billion thats 8.4% from.previous year.

So the question now is

WHO'S FUCKING WHO ?

I literally do not boy have enough time in the day to type all of them. There's just so many that are awful.

EA need to make some decent games so I cannot buy their games on principal, rather than not buying their games because I don't care.

Putting aside that boycotting doesn’t work and actually has the opposite effect.

Coca-cola

This isn't an ideological boycott, this is stuff I avoid bc it's not great.

ATT (I get better cell service in a subway than I do in my house and I'm on it because my MVNO switched from T-Mobile to att) HP (worlds shittiest hinges) Comcast, Spectrum (parents have comcast, it sucks. My friends have Spectrum, it also sucks)

Most of them. There are no "good" corporations only ones that are currently tolerable.

Ford, General Motors, Stellantis.

I do not buy from bp, and I only buy from Walmart if there's literally no other option. My go to department store is Target or whatever local store has what I need, usually it is the former is Walmart is the reason why Mom and Pop stores don't really exist anymore unless they fulfill a very specific niche.

My local Walmart does not get any of my business, if I go in, it's probably just to visit the Checkers renting store space from Walmart

Here's an infographic to help you in your fight. It is a little dated, but best I could find before going to sleep.

are some of them Too Big to Boycott?

EA is actually getting better. Activision Blizzard, though…

Your local slaughterhouse. Of, if that doesn't exist, your regional slaughterhouse.

Spotify

1. Retail banks.

Because money laundering regulations in the UK (and I believe in the US and Europe) at least have made free use of one's cash pretty difficult:

Designated accounts to transfer cash so that you have at least twice as many transactions to do as necessary. Inability to remove modest amounts of cash from your own account, or even pay it in.

2. Corporate banks operating HFT and dark pools to significantly push up the cost of personal share dealing.

3. Water companies dumping sewage into rivers and failing to fix leaks whilst raising water processing charges and bonuses to the board.

4. BBC and their sponsor-a-paedo TV tax collected by harassing elderly people, guilty until proved innocent. Used to be wonderful, educational and funny. Now useless woke shit.

5. Politics. Come back Guido, all is forgiven. Thieving Boris Johnson handing out multi million pound contracts to supply PPE to his local pub landlord (who have no fucking clue about that sector) and his bunch of duplicitous cronies.

I might have got carried away towards the end. Sorry, not sorry.

Not sure if this counts since it's an organization, but peta.