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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    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