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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!

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[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

Amazon. I'm pretty against workers being treated poorly, and they're frequently the worst without delving into actual slavery.

It's kind of two fold though, because trying to explain to people that letting shit like this fly is encouraging it to happen to you or me just cannot get through to some people. The longer this goes on, the more they push the envelope, the further it spreads. Like they don't know how to function without the single megacorp, and having to suffer a minor inconvenience is just too much.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

Don't forget frequently ripping off ideas from small companies that (used to) sell on amazon. A lot of amazon basics is just stuff they ripped off from other people.

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] towelie@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago

BlackRock, KPMG, McKinsey Consulting.

[-] Quazatron@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Honestly just try to avoid American companies like the plague. Used to have a couple of Makerbot printers, and the support is some of the worst I've ever experienced. Switching to the European Prusa printers was an eye-opener as to what good quality printers and support actually is. Shout-out to Prusa!

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 5 points 8 hours ago

Anything from the USA, where enshittification is practically guaranteed. LiNe MuSt Go uP!!1!! Even more so under the current admin. Fart wants to isolate the USM (orons)? Fine with me, there are plenty of alternatives.

I'm not deyanked yet but it's in progress.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Youtube, so much right wing content if your not logged in you will see some shorts, and also channels you used to love turned into greedy as people/.

[-] towelie@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

Man I was just telling my wife about this the other day. YouTube's home page, not signed in, on an American VPN was disgusting: AI slop, half-naked women, and propaganda that was not only pro-Trump but actively suggesting violence

[-] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 18 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Man, I'd never considered connecting all the old forums. It would have been even more of a magical nightmare.

[-] rivalary@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

Honestly, Discord is 100 times worse for the same reasons.

[-] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

I might actually hate Discord more than Microsoft Teams.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Most hated? PostNL.

Those fuckers just drop your packages wherever the fuck they want.

I've had to contact neighbors and search for my packages on the street.

[-] tab@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

really? wow, that's DHL/UPS for me - PostNL keeps my packages intact and delivers them just fine. DHL literally throws packages on the street here.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 2 points 8 hours ago

Meta crApple twitter Micro$oft McDonald$ Proctor & Gamble All christian owned companies (fuck you hobby lobby)

[-] yool_ooloo@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 6 points 11 hours ago

GoodWill comes to mind. Their coattail riding off of literally anyone who isn't them is one of the reasons why I adopted a charitable modus operandi with the roles switched. There are three sides to GoodWill, being the gifters, the sellers, and the workers, and they all operate under a synergetic weave of false pretenses. They also ban people from shopping at GoodWill if they have a relative who works there because it brings up questions of nepotism and don't let workers buy any of their own stuff. So yeah, if we could get a law saying we can ban GoodWill managers from our own businesses, I wouldn't bat an eye.

[-] kubok@fedia.io 10 points 12 hours ago

I would love the Philip Morris board of directors to be Mangioned. You must be a special kind of evil to create mobile devices with the sole purpose of getting kids addicted to nicotine.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

And pretend it's to benefit public health.

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 102 points 19 hours ago

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.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 31 points 19 hours ago

Also, it pollutes our waters with plastic and poison everyone (including turtles, even if they are burning!)

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago

Fuck Nestle is always obligatory.

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 19 points 19 hours ago

Child labor and slavery!

[-] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

Right now specifically? I have it out for Pearson. I bought a eTextbook from them that I need for a data structures class because of the bs online assignments. I only need it for a semester, had to pay $120 for a whole year.

The built in Java IDE? Completely busted. Returns the same failed to compile error for every single assignment. I even went and tested it in IntelliJ to make sure it works. It’s not my code. It’s a problem with Pearson’s IDE.

Then, I raise the issue to tech support, only, tech support is just an AI that goes through the usual “Clear Cookies, try a different web browser”. Finally it says it will “raise it higher” since none of those things worked. I’m gonna have to be higher after dealing with this BS. Anyways, right now they’re high up on my personal shit list since they took my money and can’t even deliver a functional product

[-] qantravon@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

Pearson has been operating like that for decades. I had similar issues with their online homework systems ~15 years ago.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago
[-] stinerman@midwest.social 51 points 18 hours ago

Any company Elon Musk is the owner of.

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 19 points 17 hours ago

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!

[-] Nefara@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 66 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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).

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 1 points 2 hours ago

"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

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago

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.

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 17 points 16 hours ago

I hate all corps but on this occasion I'm going to single out Nintendo for everything they've done since forcing Yuzu to shut down. Scummy bastards of the highest order.

[-] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 34 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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"

https://www.wifr.com/2020/08/07/clay-co-judge-orders-gov-pritzker-to-appear-in-court-after-rep-darren-bailey-seeks-contempt-charge/

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/publisher-cancels-contract-over-controversial-fake-illinois-newspapers/2948599/

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[-] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 27 points 18 hours ago

Nestle. Their future is the dystopian part of evil that we see in movies.

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[-] i_dont_want_to 19 points 17 hours ago

Walmart. I'm from a rural area and they wiped out all of the small businesses and contributed to a lot of economic hardship for the people. (Not that they were in a great position before, mind you.) I believe this continued economic hardship scared some people into leaning more conservative. The conservatives always gave them false hope. And thus the cycle continues...

Any American mainstream social media I strongly dislike as well. Meta, Twitter, and Reddit are all contributors to disinformation and pushing a more right-wing agenda to people.

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[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 24 points 18 hours ago

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.

[-] Zikeji@programming.dev 4 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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. 😭

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 17 points 18 hours ago

I remember reading with dread any time EA acquired one of my favourite studios.

RIP

  • Westwood
  • Bullfrog
  • Maxis
  • Codemasters
  • Bioware
[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

RIP NFL 2K. I never forgot you and I'll never forgive.

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[-] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 17 points 18 hours ago

I despise Meta, and always have, but the company I hate most is... ...the entire health insurance industry. UnitedHealth is the worst, but there isn't one among them that isn't ruining lives and killing people on a surprisingly large scale every single day.

[-] DampSquid@feddit.uk 7 points 16 hours ago

Singapore Air. The canceled our international return tickets, so were left stranded in Greece. They didn't tell us. They fucked it up so hard, and then they also weasled out of the compensation they're legally required to give us. They owe us over $5000 and they offered us $40. Unbeleiveble cunts. I actually hate the whole country now.

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

all multi-billion dollar companies. pretty much not compatible with (quote mode) democracy (end quote mode)

[-] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 9 points 19 hours ago

About fucking ready to wipe Budget rental car off the face of the earth for the bullshit they gave me about their insurance.

Learned a tough lesson from that one.

[-] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

I rented a car from Hertz this weekend and the desk person blatantly lied about the coverage provided by my credit card. Who knows if he's instructed to say that or not, but it's shady either way.

[-] missingno@fedia.io 5 points 16 hours ago

Besides the most obviously evil corporations everyone hates - Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Nestle, etc?

I have a deeply personal grudge against Sega for how they repeatedly butchered my favorite series. I'm also carrying a grudge against Capcom for lying about SF5 on Linux, they posted that announcement and then just never mentioned it again, still to this day.

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