Hello everybody,
What is the company and corporation that is the object of your hate? What did/do they do to get that spot for you?
Mine is Facebook/Meta for their egregious data collection policies, psychological manipulation of its users, and more recently, them not seeding content.
Thanks in advance for your time! Have a good one!
Turbo tax. Never has there been a more useless organization propped up only by an even more useless law which they, themselves, lobbied to have put in place.
I prefer to focus on things I like. I mean, I hate Facebook too. I have an account because I admin my work page but I don’t use it personally. But what I like are hikes and campfires and driving on terrible almost impassible dirt and rock roads/trails in the mountains.
Nestle. Other big corporations may steal my data and manipulate their users, but nestle deprives people of the basic right of being able to drink.
Also, it pollutes our waters with plastic and poison everyone (including turtles, even if they are burning!)
Child labor and slavery!
Fuck Nestle is always obligatory.
Vampires, slavers, and directly responsible for the deaths of 10 million infants across the world.
Hell better be hot.
Hard to top Meta right now. Propaganda enables all the other bullshit from the likes of Nestle, fossil fuel companies, certain car makers, surveillance companies etc., and people don’t even get that Facebook and Instagram are even an issue beyond “social media is inherently bad”-sentiments (in contrast to x/twitter, which saw a large exodus recently).
Though if I’m honest, it’s not just social media - even “respectable” print and tv publications have been pushing the “brown people are violent criminals”-narrative, which is pretty much entirely a fabrication according to statistics (at least here in Germany).
facebook/meta deliberately sows misinformation with the help with russia to drive up revenue sources , turns out conservatives are very easy pickings for advertisements. Ive seen youtber run to Facebooks, because they whining how a sub was making them look bad.
“brown people are violent criminals”-narrative, which is pretty much entirely a fabrication
I’d love to see a source on that to have something to send to xenophobes
I’m really starting to dislike Google recently. The amount of things that simply don’t work after their Gemini integration has me fuming. I have a pixel tablet I mainly use as a smart hub, Me: “Hey Google, what’s the weather like today”, Assistant: “I don’t know”. What do you mean you don’t know? That’s the one question you ever get asked.
Google switches an old system for something new, releases it half-baked, and never parodies the features.
Lemmy seems to have a very strong voice for pushing people towards Linux… But I don’t hear nearly enough about ditching Google and other mega-corps. I started Degoogling long ago and have been really happy with the result. There are lots of alternatives and there’s no reason to stick with Google the way people do. Your description of half-baked shitty products is their hallmark. Their bloody search doesn’t even work well anymore and that’s what the whole business got launched on.
Lemmy please strongly considering De-googling. It’s quite easy for almost all services.
As a teacher, I also strongly reccomend degoogling. Google flagrantly ignores FERPA. The private info of students is safer with Microsoft of all things, but traditional Windows laptop can’t compete with the cheap-ass Chromebook which means schools are quickly switching to the Google ecosystem.
Holy, don’t get me started on ChromeOS.
I have seen more guides for ditching Google on Lemmy in the past few months than I’ve seen in the past decade across all the internet. I guarantee you you can find hundreds of posts here with people detailing how to do it or their own experience doing so. The problem isn’t Lemmy, it’s the communities you are subscribed to.
Edit: I also think you’re underestimating how hard it can be, in particular Google calendar. So many other people use it it’s hard to leave it unless you have some pipeline to convert calendar shares to your new calendar system that also allows it to consistently update. That’s the one that I’ve found the hardest time dropping. Email and gdrive were relatively easy once i sat down and did it.
Google maps is also tricky. I like organic maps but it is not nearly as robust and Apple/Waze are lateral moves
Why use Google docs, when you can download pdflatex for free?
I just started trying to de-google and I’m having a really difficult time with the search engines. I switched to duckduckgo on recommendation and while it’s nice not to have the AI response (that was my biggest bother), I’m having a really difficult time getting good results for local businesses and like even tv shows. I know a lot of it is that Google is spying on me so it’ll usually know what I’m getting at even if my search wasn’t the best, but I’m just not sure how I can improve my queries or what I’m doing wrong.
I use Brave search and that serves me well (although Lemmy really hates the founder of Brave and my comment is going to get a lot of downvotes). If you need to use google, then you can reduce the data gathering as much as possible by using startpage for google search results.
Degopgling isn’t an “all-or-nothing” endeavour. Even if you start using google 20% less, then that’s still progress and you can improve slowly over time.
Yes that dude is a POS but thank you for your response. I did find that brave unfortunately had better results than DDG when I used it before. I’ve never tried startpage so I’ll give it a shot, thanks!
I think Google is neck and neck with Microsoft these days. Which is crazy given the past 20 years.
I much prefer Microsoft to Google.
I hate MS in some markets, but don’t mind it as much in others. Can’t say the same about Google.
I reverted back to the old Google Assistant and now it can set alarms by voice command again.
It’s absolutely ridiculous how they keep breaking what is working.
The only thing I use assistant for on my phone, is asking for navigation. Eg, while driving somewhere I haven’t been before, “hey google, navigate to <address>”.
Before Gemini: Opens google maps, finds the address, starts navigation, and works perfectly.
After Gemini: “Hmm, I don’t know how to ‘navigate to’. Let me google that for you. Here are your search results for ‘navigate to <address>’, you’re welcome”.
GrapheneOS runs on the pixel tablet
Google has such potential, but their management structure just ruins everything. I wish they would be broken up into multiple companies. Then maybe at least some of their products and creativity would be allowed to thrive.
Any company Elon Musk is the owner of.
I was just thinking about this today. Any corporations big enough for us all to know have likely done more bad things than praiseworthy things. Patagonia is the closest I can think of to a good company we may all know.
The things with the Musk companies that drive me crazy though, is that everything Musk is head of are things that I should be excited about: spaceflight, EVs, green energy, public transportation.
But now thinking about any of those companies reminds me of a less funny version of when Mr Burns opens the recycling plant, but uses it to kill large numbers of sea creatures.
He just sucks the life out of so much exciting tech. While I don’t use any of his stuff, it used to feel aspirational. There’s at least other viable alternatives for just about everything now, but spaceflight is a big disappointment, as that is the most “future” feeling thing to me that there is. It was so exciting to see someone accelerating space travel, but now I hate he’s got his fingers on all of it. Am I supposed to root for Boeing now? Ick!
I was just thinking about this today. Any corporations big enough for us all to know have likely done more bad things than praiseworthy things. Patagonia is the closest I can think of to a good company we may all know.
Costco seems pretty solid. I’m in the northeast US and I feel good about supporting Market Basket. Valve isn’t so bad. There ARE some ethical big corporations just trying to do their thing out there and understand that providing the services and products they’re meant to is more important than “line go up”, they’re just few and far between.
Ooo, I like Market Basket’s ecodiversity initiatives! 😆
Good ones with Costco and Valve too. I wish it was more valued for companies just to provide good products or services. With so much income disparity though, many are left supporting dollar chasers as opposed to actual nice companies.
Uline, owned by the Unihleins. They contribute millions of dollars to the most extreme republicans in Illinois and other states. They funded Bruce Rauner and Daren Bailey. They were behind fake newspapers being mailed and fearmongering cashless bail.
They are also behind the scheme to have a downstate judge try to hold the governor in contempt over mask mandates.
They also help run “Illinois policy institute”
Are they the ones behind the post cards/flyers asking you to quit your union and buy a console or go on a vacation with the approximately $700 you would potentially save?
The Janus in Janus v. AFSCME works for Illinois Policy, so probably.
the antiunion/buy a console instead poster was delta airlines in 2019.
Comcast/Xfinity. Installed home security equipment I told them wouldn’t work, then once it turned out it didn’t, they charged me $1000+ for the equipment that they took back, but somehow misplaced. Two years of calls later, they finally ground me down. It’s the one company I refuse to call for my elderly mother when she has trouble with them.
BofA is a close second. Emptied out my little kid’s saving account with fees (even though they said it was a free account when we opened it, so we didn’t bother checking the statements). Hit us up for multiple overdraft fees, then offered to return only three months’ worth of just the fees.
They can all burn in hell.
Credit Unions are the way to go unless you’re looking for high-yield and brokerage accounts. Sorry that happened.
Except that many, many, MANY credit unions have converted to banks (or at least offering exactly the same or even lower rates than banks) but don’t change the name.
I have been screwed by my credit union a dozen times. Like me trying to open a Roth IRA with them when I was in my first year of university and they opened a CD and named it “Roth IRA” and I get like 2% interest on it.
I hate Comcast/Xfinity with such a passion I tell myself if I had the same hatred for a person I’d be in jail for murder.
Not only did they impose their “trial data caps” in my area and charge me out the ass for going over 2TB a month, I acceded once to being upsold and was told it was completely reversible within a month. After realizing the sales shithead lied to me about the features, I called to revert. Guess what? They couldn’t. It wasn’t something they could do. Fortunately I recorded all my calls, but even with that it took me more than 30 hours of phone and chat time to get it fixed, and the agent who finally helped me had to setup a recurring account credit to fix it. Absolutely horrid. She basically clarified, without saying it outright, that the sales shithead lied to my face because they’re practically encouraged to.
Long story short my home purchase decision was influenced greatly by those shitheads not being in the area, and just seeing an ad makes me want to vandalize it. It’s the only thing I hate with this much passion.
Nestle. Their future is the dystopian part of evil that we see in movies.
Water barons…
Walmart. They’re one of the funders of the heritage foundation with Project 2025, they’re one of the biggest killers of unions and any worker rights in the US. Walmart remains at the top of the most money by revenue with only Amazon nipping at its heels before Chinese government backed Corps and Saudi Aramco .
It’s ran like a cult, crushes any competition in an area and holds entire towns hostage with its buying power. I know I’m discussing things like Amazon and the like, but I grew up in its home town and wish for the company to just burn.
Oh, I have my favorites.
Nestle is up in the list, as is Monsanto.
For years I hated Microsoft with a passion for all the scummy things they did. They killed a lot of good companies and products by shady business practices rather than competing with quality software.
Then there’s Nvidia. These bastards will just not play ball with open source, so every gamer kid that somehow decides to try Linux and fails thanks to their shitty drivers end up in reddit screaming “Linux sucks”. AMD and Intel are fine to open source their drivers or at least publish the specs so others may do it for them. I suspect the true reason is that there’s a lot of benchmark rigging code inside Nvidia’s drivers.
Reddit, ruined forums, I loved checking forums, I wish federation became a thing back then and all the forums interconnected instead of moving or dying due to reddit communities. It bugs me how they went from being a useful hub for the internet, a link aggregator, guide to the web with wiki/comments to a walled garden.
Honestly, Discord is 100 times worse for the same reasons.
Everything is hard to search and ppl pull the same its already been asked before stuff in there lol Great idea moving help forums to a chat, as a supplement its great, terrible as the main/only option.
I might actually hate Discord more than Microsoft Teams.
Man, I’d never considered connecting all the old forums. It would have been even more of a magical nightmare.
I have to go by length of time I have hated the company and so the award goes to Electronic Arts. Or Evil Assholes, as I have called them since the 90’s. They have destroyed so much of what I loved. 😭
I remember reading with dread any time EA acquired one of my favourite studios.
RIP
- Westwood
- Bullfrog
- Maxis
- Codemasters
- Bioware
RIP NFL 2K. I never forgot you and I’ll never forgive.
For me it ubisoft. They’ve made some of my favorite series, then completely ruined them.
One day my rocksmith 2014 isn’t going to work because they shut down the servers, and the over a thousand dollars I’ve spent on guitars, songs, cables, and pedals are going to be, well, not useless, but pretty close to it.
Starbucks. They moved into my neighborhood and put a bunch of small business owners (cafes) out of business including one owned by a very good friend.
Nestle. obvs
Google. They had such a noble cause and potential - to organize the world’s information so that everyone could search it effectively. There was a point I thought of them as the epitome of academia, a huge force in the quest for the advancement of the world.
Now they’ve become the exact opposite.
