Boycotting American Companies

[Which Tyler]

For this of us who wish to DO something, there's very little we can do except writing to our MPs, and Boycotting US companies where feasible.

So what feasible alternatives are there? Of course, most wil be a step down from the market leaders, that's why they're not market leaders.

• MasterCard/Visa => Buggered if I know, or how to convince my bank even if I did.
• YouTube => DailyMotion is probably as good as it gets
• Prime & Netflix => iPlayer & NowTV, maybe piracy...
• Amazon => Argos? Individual shops? - easily doable, "just" lacking convenience, especially for repeat purchases
• Morrisons/Asda => Any other supermarket
• Google => Qwant/Ecosia
• ChatGPT => Mistral LeChat
• Chrome/Firefox/Brave => Vivaldi
• Microsoft => Linux
• MSOffice => LibreOffice
• Starbucks/Costa => CaféNero/Coffe#1 or, of course, plenty of independants
• McDonalds/PizzaHut/KFC => Burger king(Canadian), plenty of independants, and the likes of Pret, Greggs, Nandos etc
• DuoLingo => Busuu

Any other big ones I'm missing? Any other viable alternatives? Obviously, it's going to be UK-centric, sorry.

Of course, also trying to find alternatives to specific products

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

For this of us who wish to DO something, there's very little we can do except writing to our MPs, and Boycotting US companies where feasible.

So what feasible alternatives are there? Of course, most wil be a step down from the market leaders, that's why they're not market leaders.

• MasterCard/Visa => Buggered if I know, or how to convince my bank even if I did.
• YouTube => DailyMotion is probably as good as it gets
• Prime & Netflix => iPlayer & NowTV, maybe piracy...
• Amazon => Argos? Individual shops? - easily doable, "just" lacking convenience, especially for repeat purchases
• Morrisons/Asda => Any other supermarket
• Google => Qwant is an acceptable search engine
• ChatGPT => Mistral LeChat
• Chrome/Firefox/Brave => Vivaldi
• Microsoft => Linux
• Starbucks/Costa => CaféNero/Coffe#1 or, of course, plenty of independants
• McDonalds/BurgerKing/PizzaHut/KFC => plenty of independants, and the likes of Pret, Greggs, Nandos etc
• DuoLingo => Busuu

Any other big ones I'm missing? Any other viable alternatives? Obviously, it's going to be UK-centric, sorry.

Really shows how Europe has offered **** all in the tech service world...

 

[Saintjay]

Pretty much every Hollywood film in cinema.

 

[Which Tyler]

There is an app called "Made In" that will scan barcodes, and tell you where corporate daddy lives - I've no idea how reliable, safe etc it is.