Boycott list

Definition: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=boycott Does lainon have boycott list on megacorps? How about open source project/forks hall of shame? I think I'm boycotting logitech for doing this. >logitech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamlabs#Criticism I don't even use "OBS" but this seems too fishy. >a more in-depth viewpoint https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=HbVnr6ugWGE Other on my hot list: >lenovo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish >huawei https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20136233 There's many more (e.g, GAFAM) but I can't just list all of their malpractices which are a given anyways. When companies breach trust I think they should be blacklisted for security reasons as security is built on the foundation called trust and so are businesses. You wouldn't buy something from someone that scammed you once right? Let alone buy a product that is actively damaging you or others well-being? It could be the doing of one saboteur but this just proves us these companies don't even care at all.

I purchase so few items that I find it easier to maintain a whitelist. I usually only make online purchases when I lack other reasonable options. I order directly from the publisher when purchasing books, unless I can purchase them with cash at a physical bookstore, and I've purchased my last several pieces of computer hardware from the manufacturer, partly due to the rarity and quality of the artefacts. I also review many of my purchases, to let others know whether I recommend them or not. I purchased an ergonomic Logitech trackball I'd been able to test elsewhere beforehand, the M570, and it worked well for years, but it eventually develops a double-clicking issue I later learned is common, and it has begun to hurt my right hand when I use it, so I recommend trying a different model. >When companies breach trust I think they should be blacklisted for security reasons as security is built on the foundation called trust and so are businesses. In Communist countries, I'm told there were few options. In Capitalist countries, there are few options disguised as many options. We most often have but the illusion of choice, and do well to remember that.

There would be nothing left if I boycotted over everything i care about. Yes you should aim for lesser evils but it's all soykaf. >Huawei >"stealing" from other big companies >caring about their own security I don't see a problem here....

>>53731 I don't "consume" (as fellow unitedstatians say) product frequently enough to care or make an impact, I'm nobody. >logitech They make mice with good wheels, switches and optics, it's all I care about. There rest should be cared for by FSF, that's why they exist, right, to protect freetards from getting BSD'd. >lenovo Computrace was hottest soykaf on all business notebooks before /g/tards learned ME buzzword. >It was founded in Israel I'd unironically boycott Israel. Literally all software coming from this sandnigger soykafhole turns out to be spyware. No exceptions. >huawei steals other corps stuff OG cyberpunk novel soykaf. I kneel. Westoids can't into gong-kai peer cooperation.

I buy virtually everything except underwear second hand and run it for as long as possible so why should I give a soykaf. Huawei's rampant IP theft is great BTW, doublefuck Cisco and fuarrrk stagnant companies, still wouldnt buy any of their soykaf new or second hand though.

>>53732 Double clicking on mice is usually solved by soldering in new switches. Might be worth considering.

>>53742 Flush with isopropyl alcohol before attempting soldering. A few specs of dirt and grease from sweaty palms might have soaked in and corroded microswitch contacts.

>>53733 >>53737 >cisco You simply didn't read and proceeded to drop the soykaf called reflexive response from all the repetitive news you've heard before. >6. Camera theft : >Rui Oliveira, a 45-year-old Portuguese multimedia producer, told the Journal he flew to Huawei’s Plano offices in May 2014 to meet Huawei executives, who were interested in his patents for a camera attachment to smartphones. >7. Stealing songs : >Paul Cheever, a bespectacled preschool teacher who records music as The Cheebacabra, said his life has become overrun with paperwork and costs since he sued Huawei in California last year for taking his song “A Casual Encounter” and pre-loading it on Huawei smartphones and tablets for free distribution to its customers. These two are just casual individuals like everyone. If you think such theft is "cool" then hope for yourself that someone also steals your entire company/life's work and it would be some retarded big tech company and well of course you will be happy, even happier as they sue you back with the force of a thousand suns and easily sabotage your life as they pay a fraction of their wealth to hire people to do that. What you think others people similar as you should experience (misfortune) unreasonably, you should for yourself in the most similar manner. >>53739 The cisco IP theft wasn't exactly real news, most of the "IP" was actually just openly available open source tools (gpl or bsd, both are zucked license) and companies being dumb on their own about what counts as IP or not and the rest of journalists who just embellished the story instead of just saying it's just a copyright/license appropriation but two birds one stone as they say. Oh, can't even find a court case "cisco v. huawei" that's recent enough, well it's just journalism hype after all🤔. Do you even believe those tech sites that claim "chyna 5g backdoor" when you really know what's up? I think the think they stole without a doubt those english manuals though. Companies stealing other companies' stuff is quite common practice though, it's just a matter of who's got the most tricks and poker chips.