Products and services that rely on exploitation, and those that come from countries involved in human rights violations (Israel, China, USA, Russia, Saudi to name a few). You bet your ass I buy almost nothing XD, just local food and used clothes from private individuals, sometimes thrift stores if they are local and don't violate the first rule.
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A lot of stuff. All streaming services. I even boycott entire us states, at least where applicable.
I don't really consider them boycotts because they are indefinite and I don't have any demands or don't see how they could change that would make me receptive to them.
Cars. I'll personally ride along or carpool with someone but I don't want to add another car to the world and to the road. Even if we switched over to all electric cars, they still require lots of resources to build and maintain and put a lot of demand on infrastructure and urban design.
Animal products. I am against all animal products and treating animal as commodity. We've enslaved animals all the way down to the biological level, it's unethical.
Israel and any company operating out of the occupied Palestinian lands that is Israeli operated.
Apartheid states that oppress people's in another land and treat them like prisoners in an open air prison don't get my money.
I don't buy any Catalan products and avoid Catalan online stores.
Hmmm, this is the first I've seen of this. Is it mainly because of the independence protests?
Yes, the whole movement is stupid (pretty much boils down to "young Catalans didn't vote to approve the constitution so they should get another vote now". of course no country repeats constitution referendum each generation, it's stupid) but it destabilizes the entire country forcing the government to deal with this idiocy instead of real issues.
Dating myself. Coca-Cola. New coke saga. Hit me at the exact point of developing a social consciousness. The absolute mercenary method of screwing around with their products.
Boycott? Nothing. Avoid like the plague? Apple, Windows, consoles like Xbox and PlayStation, Activision Blizzard and probably others I can't remember rn.
Nintendo gets a pass as I've grown up with them. Starting with a regular old DS Lite, then to a DSI XL, then the 3DS XL, and now a Switch.