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submitted 4 months ago by SethranKada@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 168 points 4 months ago
[-] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 months ago

Fair enough. They're so big I need an app just to keep track of if something's made by them or not.

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 14 points 4 months ago
[-] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago

Sorry, I wasn't very clear with my reply. I haven't actually found an app that does this kind of thing very well, just yet. My reply was more in the line of “I wish I had an app to do this, because searching the internet takes forever”.

Some brief searching came up nowhere when I went looking a few hours ago. I did find two apps on Google Play that seemed like they might work, but both had their own blend of issues, and neither was on f-droid, unfortunately. They were "No Thanks" and "Boycott X", if you want to try them out.

[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I used to use one called "buycott", but it seems like that was abandoned years ago.

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