What brands do you avoid at all cost? I don’t keep up with the news all that much, and many of the reasons to avoid something don’t make it there anyway. So I’m asking here to make a big list of things to avoid. It could be anything from bad security practices to really frustrating packaging. Working as a cashier myself, I definitely know there are plenty of brands I avoid purely on the basis that their product is a pain to stock.
On the flip side, what’s the alternative? If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?
Apple for their poisonous followership.
Canon for being assholes.
Microsoft for their shitty products that only survive due to the mass they have acquired during the years running largely unchecked.
Facebook/Meta/Twitterx/Tesla: see Apple.
What’s wrong with Canon specifically? The rest I am already aware of their sketchy dealings.
Usually Canons camera selection is quite good, was there a scandal or is it just shit support for their printers or help in general?
Canon printers. Back in the time, I bought a large canon printer - for 60cm wide paper, with large ink tanks on the side. It cost a rather substantial amount, but printing under Linux was meh, as there was no special driver for this model. I asked for a manual so I could write such a driver myself, but their position (back then, I never bothered to recheck) that Linux and open source in general was theft of intellectual property.