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!
I’ll throw out a new one: Cricut vinyl cutters.
Machine works just dandy, software is, quite literally, the worst I’ve worked with in 30 years of IT. The company puts no money into the product, it’s clearly only there to blast users with ads and give the machine basic, and hellish, functionality.
Here’s the best part! I can’t use my cutter unless I connect the software to the internet. It updates daily, yet ads nothing to functionality. Must be updating shit for sale.
Couple of years ago they made headline news by changing the terms so that users could only work on a couple of projects without paying for a subscription. A couple of projects could easily be part of one project. The howls of outrage got them to back off, damage done. I’ll replace it with any other brand if that time comes.
Get a vinyl cutter from sign warehouse and use Adobe illustrator, pirate CS6 if you have to, it doesnt require a subscription. You’ll be MUCH happier, I did commercial vinyl for years, it’s night and day. Cricut is expensive as fuck compared, and broken as fuck.
I got a silhouette because of how horrific cricut software is.
Thank you, I’ve been wondering if I might want one but now I definitely don’t.
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.
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.
Might be the Belgian PostNL.
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.
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.
Oh I’m sure they’ve got ten thousand shitty business practices we could spend all day criticizing.
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 antiunion/buy a console instead poster was delta airlines in 2019.
The Janus in Janus v. AFSCME works for Illinois Policy, so probably.
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.
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.
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. 😭
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.
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.
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).
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.
Nestle. Their future is the dystopian part of evil that we see in movies.
Water barons…
Does gov count as a corporation one can hate?
The United States government.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
GrapheneOS runs on the pixel tablet
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”.
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.
Tesla by a country mile.
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.
