I get the boycotts for Target, Walmart, and Amazon for rolling back their DEI programs and bowing to Trump. What companies are treating employees fair or standing up for human decency? Seems like Costco gets brought up?

Most things I need I can get from my local grocery store which seems pretty non evil but where do you go if you need like a new keyboard?

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    i use the nothanks app on my phone to scan the bar codes and it tells me if it’s okay to buy or if i should boycott, along w why

    • Pudutr0n@feddit.cl
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      17 days ago

      I found the thing you mentioned a good idea so I googled the app to find out how they decided who should or should not be boycotted. I landed their homepage and it said they offered digital marketing solutions.

      I’d love to use something like that if community driven but sounds like an important conflict of interest.

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        17 days ago

        that’s good to know that they’re doing the same thing as adblock plus did.

        there are other apps that do the same thing and i’ll be trying them now; thanks for the heads up.

        • Pudutr0n@feddit.cl
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          16 days ago

          Buycott seems promising cause campaigns and boycott lists are user-driven (which, you know… could also be faked I guess) and haven’t found anything fishy in their policies yet, but still snooping around on them. Gonna look into their ownership now.

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            16 days ago

            based solely on what you’ve found (and not doing my own homework): it seems like they’re going the adblock pro route where they’re good to use until they get a critical enough mass of users to start selling their data and the we’ll have to switch to the ublock origin like alternative.

            • Pudutr0n@feddit.cl
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              16 days ago

              I’d go with buycott until something better appears tbh. I’m gonna see how it works for me. Too tired to keep snooping for today.

              • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                16 days ago

                i think i’m going to start using more than one at a time as a cross comparison and investigate the dissenter.

                • Pudutr0n@feddit.cl
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                  16 days ago

                  Not a bad idea but keep in mind you’ll also potentially be adding yourself to lists. i assume i just ended up in a few databases i’d rather not be in by doing this snooping alone. Hard to tell the sheep from the wolves. I’m not an american though and my country isn’t currently on “hardcore mode” political setting. Stay safe, friend.

        • Pudutr0n@feddit.cl
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          16 days ago

          I checked out boycat.io

          Searched a bunch of “everyone knows they’re bad” companies and the info they provided seemed accurate, reasonable and well sourced.

          However, their business model seems kinda fishy. first of all they sell “I’m a nice company” certifications, which in itself s a conflict of interest, but especially if you can’t find who the owners of boycat are anywhere on the site or the internet, their whois information is private and if you look at their privacy policy, they allow themselves the right to track “usage data” (i.e. what you scanned) and “location data” which they later allow themselves to “share” with “service providers”, which are “companies providing hosting, data analysis, marketing, customer service, and technical support.”… so umm… Yeah. Basically same conflict of interest as the other company, but less explicit.

          And again,. not once do they say who owns them, how they started or is behind them nor do they provide an explanation on why they don’t talk about themselves… Cause I could understand well intending devs trying to keep private to stop companies from threatening them, but tell the community this is why you don’t share your info. Their contact us doesn’t work either.

          I would really like to see something community driven but i guess big companies could infiltrate something like that easily. I’ll look into other solutions and let you know if i find anything promising.

          ps: 90% of their news were about Israel-palestine, which, you know… OK, good and important but ummm… I’d also like to know about other stuff.

        • Pudutr0n@feddit.cl
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          17 days ago

          Sure. Mentioning them helped me remember i have to get my act together regarding who i give my money to, so even if they’re evil now something good may have come from using and naming them. Thanks for the reminder. I needed it.

    • Wigglet@beehaw.org
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      16 days ago

      Is there a way to add brands i want to avoid that aren’t on their list? I live in Aotearoa so I’m not sure if the list will have everything included

    • lemel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Clicking around, it seems like everything is on the boycott list. The reasons are also so bad. For example, Mars Inc is banned for working together with Israeli academic institutions to further foodtech innovations. Bullshit like this is why Republicans are able to link together antisemitism and reasonably critiquing the actions of Netanyahu.

      • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        Mars directly investing in Israeli startups and working with the university of genocide is a pretty good reason to boycott Mars

        The app simply puts every company which invests money into Israel on the boycott list.