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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    4 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