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submitted 7 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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[-] SlamWich@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Walmart, Amazon, Blizzard, EA, Apple, McDonalds, Then some of the mega brands when I can avoid them like Unilever, General Mills, etc

[-] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Bad dragon, my tiny rose petal still gets sore on rainy days

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Samsung. & Vodafone. For NZrs: Fisher & Pykel.

F&P quality is shit and the first two have awful customer service. Samsung also, while they do innovate, lack quality and don't stick by their products.

Also: HP and Apple. Shitty lock-in tactics

[-] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Mostly anything USA since I was 12-15 years old. Israeli too since many years ago.

Coca cola, apple, google, Intel CPUs

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Beech-Nut baby food. They have a history of bad faith actions including multiple citations, years apart and after litigation no less, for "selling artificially flavored sugar water as apple juice."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech-Nut

[-] andreas@lemmy.kfed.org 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm a big privacy and FOSS advocate so my list is kinda long, but the main ones are:

-> Google (I use GrapheneOS)

-> TikTok

-> Tesla (too much data collection)

-> Microsoft (self explanatory, however for some things I need to keep an w10 LTSC VM configured)

-> Adobe (same reasons as Michaelsoft)

-> OpenAI (same reasons as Michaelsoft, but I do use it inside a vm in no-account mode for some work related things)

-> Uber (oh man that app is digital herpes)

-> Spotify

-> Facebook/Meta

-> Dropbox

-> Whatsapp

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