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What brands do you avoid at all cost? I don't keep up with the news all that much, and many of the reasons to avoid something don't make it there anyway. So I'm asking here to make a big list of things to avoid. It could be anything from bad security practices to really frustrating packaging. Working as a cashier myself, I definitely know there are plenty of brands I avoid purely on the basis that their product is a pain to stock.

On the flip side, what's the alternative? If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Not really answering the question but I've completely stopped buying anything that requires USB micro B. I can't fucking stand that connector. USB C costs a negligible amount more and I've yet to have a single port or cable fail irreparably after using it for the best part of a decade.

An actual answer to the question? I'm done with Microsoft and Nvidia. I'd love to add Google to the list but I'm still largely entrenched in their ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Apple for their poisonous followership.

Canon for being assholes.

Microsoft for their shitty products that only survive due to the mass they have acquired during the years running largely unchecked.

Facebook/Meta/Twitterx/Tesla: see Apple.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Amazon: I avoid them because of worker abuse and union busting. While prime shipping is convenient, planning around not having it comes pretty naturally. Just plan as if it’s not an option at all. This does require good internet search skills to find sites that sell what you’re looking for, but I can’t express how worth it the work is to get better quality products.

Starbucks: I avoid them because of union busting. I make most of my coffee and tea at home, it’s cheaper and better anyway. Otherwise, I go to a local cafe. My area has a lot of them, but even if yours doesn’t, try asking around.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Crowdstrike
Microsoft

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

EA got my account stolen with 1200+ hours of playtime via fraudulent support tickets. That's why, I am not touching anything EA's involved with ever when they absolutely suck at account security.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Honestly.. Google Play.. someone re-gifted my son a $20 Google Play card a few years ago, and I tried to buy something for him and realised the card was about 2weeks out of date, and after about 10 back and forwards with support, they wouldn’t honour it.. a trillion dollar company. I get it, but their cold indifference just seemed mean

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

They didn't become a trillion dollar company by being nice. No mega Corp earns their billions by being an honorable company

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

LG, Nestlé, Coke-Cola, Amazon, TikTok, Temu, any big brand bank, ASUS, Johnson Outdoors brands (jetboil, scuba pro)

Edit:forgot Tyson foods and Hormel. Their fucking over chicken farmers.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

KwikFit fucked me over once 15 years ago and I'm never going back.

Apple is BS for losers.

Someone driving a Tesla I can't help but think of them sucking off Musk whilst being ass fucked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Many store-brand foods because they're made with half garbage.

HP - their printers and subscription models pissed me off so much that I want nothing to do with them.

Apple - 'nuff said

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

McDonald's.

I'm not much into fast food but if I'm craving a burger and chips I'll get it from a pub.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Nestle

HP

Apple

Tesla

There are more but those are the first that came to mind that I don't have to go dig up a list.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

HiSense - they make appliances and they're junk

All bottled water - no one needs them and it's plastic that's here forever

Temu - disposable shit

Bath and Body Works - the creators of microbeads (plastic) hand soap

Teflon - poisoned my town's water

Chick-fil-A - evangelist food, no thanks

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Dollar, Hertz and Thrifty car rental. Also Budget, but for different reasons.

Never use Dollar, Hertz or Thrifty under any circumstances unless you want to be fucked. Never prepay with Budget unless you want to be fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Amazon

Coca cola

Google , except android.

Nestlé

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Google , except android

May GrapheneOS change that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

There's a bunch I know when I see them, but not many I can think of right on the spot. Apple, Liquid Death, and Celestial Seasonings are a few I can think of though. Apple for a million reasons; LD because I just find their whole campaign insanely obnoxious and everywhere I look and I hate that people are paying ridiculous prices for plane ass water in a can; Celestial Seasonings because it's straight up an actual cult.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Dell Microsoft Roku Sony Briggs & Stratton Duracell

All of the above companies have failed me for the Last. Time. Admiral Piet. We're done.

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