PyrWhat companies have made your blacklist?
My top company that I will never give another dollar to is Adobe, as they forced me into a 1 year “contract” with a $200 cancellation fee after forgetting to cancel their one month discounted trial in time.
Other companies for myself include Dell, HP, and Canadian Tire.
surewhynotlemObligatory “fuck Adobe”. My proudest moment last year was cutting our company’s Acrobat licenses by 70% and taking about a million bucks out of their greedy little pockets.
Nitro Pro is great anyway. It does the job.
I love you. Best I could do was cancel my $20 / month. I’ll match you in about 4000 years.
It’s not about matching, it’s about preventing Adobe from getting money. :P
OtterWhat are some good alternatives to each Adobe product?
Someone on here mentioned Affinity for the Photoshop/design world
Nitro & PDFxchange for the PDF side?
I switched to PDFgear for my PDF editing needs, free and open source.
Does a decent job, although I miss being able to have PDF opened in tabs instead of individual windows.
7Sea_SailorAm I crazy? I cannot find that open source for PDFgear. Yes it’s free, but they need to have some income if they can offer an AI integration. What’s the catch?
Nitro is shaping up to be a good alternative for enterprise needs. Not sure about the rest. They seem to have a strangle hold on the creative suite in the enterprise.
late_nightAlso Inkscape for Illustrator
idunnololzWhat happened at Canadian tire? :o
Oh man it was so long ago.
I think the final straw was trying to buy tire rims. Went online and it says it was in stock and my local store, went to it and they said it was out of stock despite the website saying it was. Sent me to the next store over 20 minutes away saying they had some, went there and they told me that they didn’t have any either despite the internal system saying they did.
Wasted an hour and a bunch of gas trying to get those rims. Not a huge deal but if a company can’t tell what they have and when they have it and prefer to waste my time I don’t care to give them my business.
Plus they only stock like 3 items per store for every flyer deal, hoping you’ll buy shit just because you’re there already. Same with Walmart which is also on my blacklist.
I used to work at a company that provided tech support for a few Canadian Tires. They don’t hire nearly enough staff. They try to make up for it with high amounts of automation. Frequently people will come and steal from them because there aren’t enough staff to stop that. This causes the inventory system to think there is more stock than there is. Because the reduced staff, they don’t frequently manually check their stock so it can be quite some time before it becomes aparent.
I will pirate Adobe’s products without any lapse in judgement on my part, I assure you
If you complain enough, adobe will let you cancel for free. But they are also on my blacklist, for making me work to cancel a service for free. Absolutely ridiculous.
the adobe cancellation fee is the most evil and greedy shit i’ve ever witnessed in software. they SCALE it so you pay the exact amount you would have paid if you just remained subscribed for the full year, except when you pay that money through a cancellation you immediately lose your license to run their software. they literally make you pay the remaining subscription period while taking away your access to the fucking product
McD.
20 or so years ago I had several bad experiences back to back in different restaurants, and I just decided to not go there anymore.
And EA. Fuck them
That’s a good one, it’s made my grey list so far and I will only go there on my company’s dollar if it’s the only option…
It seems that every time I go, unless it’s just for a coffee, they either get my order wrong or they need me to park in the lot for 10 minutes while they get it ready.
Last time they gave me an extra McMuffin and charged me for it, despite only ordering the one.
Also EA, you’re right. Fuck em.
Comcast (Xfinity) We couldn’t get a good signal in our house and were told the cable was old and needed to be upgraded. They wouldn’t cover the upgrade. A local fiber optic company came through and we dumped them.
I was the first person I knew who cut the cord because Comcast was so obnoxious. They made a deal with my landlord so we could only use Comcast and then they charged $30 more a month than the apartment complex across the way. The FCC (or whichever regulator it was) made that illegal at some point. But competitors slow-walked competing for years. I’m sure it was a backroom deal since AT&T had similar deals with other buildings.
I still needed internet so I angrily paid for that but I sailed the high seas for years just to avoid giving Comcast one extra nickel more than was necessary.
There’s so many.
Oreo changed their cream filling and you can see they only fill the rows by like 2/3 now
Ebay (I honestly don’t know anyone who hasn’t had problems on the platform how are they still in business?)
When I was a teen, my manager at dominoes fired me after I caught him stealing my tips. I wont even eat free dominoes
Ebay was long sold to chinese ownership. They're just another version of Wish now.
I am never buying Oreo or Ritz crackers as they are made by Mondelo which is on the Russian sponsor list for the invasion of Ukraine.
0x4E4FEvery single one… unfortunately, you just have to live in this world 🤷.
Mine is Sony. First the rootkit scandal, then the removal of Other OS from PS3s after featuring it as a selling point in the marketing. Totally deceptive and I won’t give them my money.
ArugulaZYeah, Sony isn't a favorite of mine either. They've always had this Trumpian sense of arrogance and narcissism in the video game industry that's never failed to annoy me. It was kind of fun to watch them flail a bit with the PS3, which lost them a lot of ground against the Xbox 360 due to its mammoth price. Felt like the early 90s console wars all over again.
My linkbuds case died exactly one year after I bought them. No assistance from sony. Cant buy the case separately. 180 euros for one year of earbuds. Fuck sony.
Mostly_GristleI’ve been boycotting Sony since even before their rootkit nonsense. It’s because literally every single Sony product I’ve ever owned has broken within three months of taking them out of the box. Walkmans, Discmans, a DVD player, PlayStations 1 & 2. Thankfully most of them were things I received as a gift, so I wasn’t always out of pocket, but I just don’t see any point in spending money on some garbage product that’s going to break if you stare at it too hard.
A_Random_IdiotNot to mention demanding accoutn owners be responsible for hundreds to thousands of dollars of fraudulent purchases made when their account gets hacked and stolen, Often telling them they cant have their account until they pay off all the hackers debt.
dblsaikoGoogle, should be self explanatory, but for me specifically for pretty much making YouTube worse with every change they make since that’s the only service of them I still use. And I’m not going to also pay them to sell my data.
Epic Games, for continuously fucking over Linux players and Unreal fans (and well players in general but specifically those two groups).
beanGoogle went from do no evil to, be as evil to customers as we can. Also we offer no support by phone or anything. Go ‘duck’ yourselves consumers!
This one was heartbreaking. I was a big Google fan from the moment I discovered them in 2002. They've done a fantastic job of pissing away all that goodwill in recent years.
Yes me too. From excitement and wonder to disgust in only twenty years. Wait did we marry Google?
cerement- EA – killed Earth and Beyond just so they could use the servers for Sims Online
- Blizzard – trust thermocline for me was Blitzcheung and the “We’re sorry you’re upset” excuse for an apology
jabathekekyOu GuYs DoN’t HaVe pHoNeS?!1!
fleabomberNo explanation needed buddy
I’m boycotting Sabra hummus until Israel gives us a motherfucking ant-colony-level Hamas bunker under that hospital. We were promised a whole ass command center and got a wack ass video of one hole. I want to see the secret lair.
/s for anyone concerned. I condemn Hamas super hard.
Wait, did you say you like hummus
is it hummus or hamas we must know
I have it on good sources that hummus is hiding underneath my tabbouleh salad
GET THE CHIPS, WE RIDE AT NOON
I live by a Turkish place that makes amazing musabaha. I can boycott both Hamas and hummus for as long as it takes for the big reveal.
zeppoIsn’t Sabra owned by Pepsi?
Oh… hummus joke.
Oh… hummus joke.
DarkGamerIDF just released this video,
sounds like what you wanted.
sounds like what you wanted.
Behind the Blast Door: Hamas Terrorist Base Under a Hospital
TheFeatureCreatureEA, Ubisoft, ActiBlizz. All for their various flavours of greedy nasty and/or sexual abuse. Bethesda is honestly likely to go on the list soon as well.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆EA, for destroying many of the dev companies and game franchises I loved growing up.
Nestlé, for destroying the planet, stealing water, and poisoning kids in less-developed countries.
The only one I truly boycott to that extent is Wal-Mart. It’s just so incredibly easy. There’s always another place to get the thing.
Same man, Walmart just makes me depressed if I need to go there.
Unfortunately my grandpa is dutch and wants me to pick things up for him there sometimes 🤣
What does being from the Netherlands have to do with shopping at Walmart?
It might be about what his grandpa will do to Pyr if Pyr doesn't go to walmart for him.
Well if you were from the Netherlands and starving because the Nazis stole your cows and gouda cheese you would also want to try and save every damn penny you can.
jballsI’ve been boycotting Walmart for over 20 years. In that time, there was only one thing I couldn’t find anywhere else but there. After buying it, I found it at Costco shortly after. I was never so happy to return an item in my entire life. I even signed for the return on the fanciest cursive “Fuck Walmart” that I could muster.
Superstore/Loblaw’s and really any and all big box grocery store in Canada. They fixed bread prices and are colloquially known as the “Bread Cartel”.
How about nestle and, like all of the chocolate companies, who are all complicit in promoting child slavery
Yes Nestle and Mars are also on my list, I have a terrible time of remembering things I want to remember when needed 🤣
👍Maximum Derek👍Nestle and it’s many derivatives. Water stealing, baby starving, child slavers.
Call me Lenny/LeniI go by more of a criteria than a list. This criteria is followed personally but fits even more at my own workplace in the protocol. The criteria is really just things like “these businesses do not follow courtesy”, things like GoodWill, Autism Speaks, and Catholic Charities. There’s a charity ranker that has listed Catholic Charities as the top charity almost three years in a low. That’s on the blacklist too, we’ve known better all along. I can give a much larger list if asked.
It’s one thing to treat your people like fools, it’s another to run on gifting by members and still do it.
HP
Printers suck enough as it is.
They used to make good computers but that was a long time ago at this point. Some of their laptops or other devices are probably fine but fuck HP