Not a bad idea but keep in mind you’ll also potentially be adding yourself to lists. i assume i just ended up in a few databases i’d rather not be in by doing this snooping alone. Hard to tell the sheep from the wolves. I’m not an american though and my country isn’t currently on “hardcore mode” political setting. Stay safe, friend.

It really does.

I’d go with buycott until something better appears tbh. I’m gonna see how it works for me. Too tired to keep snooping for today.

Yes this sounds right and it also makes sense.

Buycott seems promising cause campaigns and boycott lists are user-driven (which, you know… could also be faked I guess) and haven’t found anything fishy in their policies yet, but still snooping around on them. Gonna look into their ownership now.

Edit:

So umm… apparently Buycott was founded by a random 20 something year old LA dev (Ivan Pardo), a 2008 CS guy from Colgate University who basically coded it on his own. Boycott’s social media has been inactive since 2016.

Their business model is they sell access to their barcode API, which basically means they sell the pics of the barcodes and the product descriptions people add voluntarily to companies to do what they want. Not great but you know… better than digital marketing services.

Buycott is related to solidarity tech, which Ivan Pardo also founded, and is a CRM who claims to be “helping unions & grassroots organizations build people-powered movements that transform society…” which could be legit. They’re not free and they’re not cheap and they claim to cater to unions, advocacy orgs and non profits… but idk. Am I full paranoid delusional or does this sound like a honeytrap kinda thing? Like if I was an evil right wing politician this is exactly the kind of company I’d want to have leverage over to be able to sabotage opposition. And we don’t know who Pardo’s partners are. Only that he’s founder.

Oh, also, solidarity tech openly claims they give their customer info to Google analytics in their terms, which, you know… Kinda concerning when your “I’ll handle your grass roots movement” software sees no reason to not freely give your information to the most blatant and thinly veiled CIA front in contemporary history.

In their webpage they say they are “Trusted by Progressive Campaigns and Causes” and name a full total of 5 clients: Debt Collective, UAW, Pilipino Workers Central and CWA. As a non american I don’t know what these things are…

idk I don’t trust them. But I’m also running out of options at this point. Might as well use something. They seem like the best so far.

I checked out boycat.io

Searched a bunch of “everyone knows they’re bad” companies and the info they provided seemed accurate, reasonable and well sourced.

However, their business model seems kinda fishy. first of all they sell “I’m a nice company” certifications, which in itself s a conflict of interest, but especially if you can’t find who the owners of boycat are anywhere on the site or the internet, their whois information is private and if you look at their privacy policy, they allow themselves the right to track “usage data” (i.e. what you scanned) and “location data” which they later allow themselves to “share” with “service providers”, which are “companies providing hosting, data analysis, marketing, customer service, and technical support.”… so umm… Yeah. Basically same conflict of interest as the other company, but less explicit.

And again,. not once do they say who owns them, how they started or is behind them nor do they provide an explanation on why they don’t talk about themselves… Cause I could understand well intending devs trying to keep private to stop companies from threatening them, but tell the community this is why you don’t share your info. Their contact us doesn’t work either.

I would really like to see something community driven but i guess big companies could infiltrate something like that easily. I’ll look into other solutions and let you know if i find anything promising.

ps: 90% of their news were about Israel-palestine, which, you know… OK, good and important but ummm… I’d also like to know about other stuff.

Sure. Mentioning them helped me remember i have to get my act together regarding who i give my money to, so even if they’re evil now something good may have come from using and naming them. Thanks for the reminder. I needed it.

I found the thing you mentioned a good idea so I googled the app to find out how they decided who should or should not be boycotted. I landed their homepage and it said they offered digital marketing solutions.

I’d love to use something like that if community driven but sounds like an important conflict of interest.

I’m not sure if this is what you’re asking but I met a Chinese tourist about 20 years ago. He was also traveling on his own. He seemed like a relatively nice guy, even when drunk. Not like “wow this guy is such a nice person” bu you know. Someone you could grab a beer with. His table manners were umm… different, but I attribute that to cultural differences. Oh and he liked smashing his fist on the table for emphasis and dramatic effect when talking about something that was important to him. He was obsessed with respect. Who respected him, who didn’t respect him, etc. He also had a deep and great love for his country, something he seemed to derive meaning and sense of purpose from.

You want him to be high on the job too? Now THAT would be unprofessional.

I used the word “anyone”. That was me. The intention of my message was humorous, and I’m sorry if you didn’t find it or my later question funny.

You too friend, and sorry for being mean.

I’m sorry I upset you, but yes, you were coming off a little emotional.

I didn’t mean to be rude.

What I shared was a personal story about my life which is painful for me to remember. I don’t go around sharing shit stuff with people who want to harm me. I share it with people who i think could benefit from it.

I really hope you have an awesome day cause to me, regardless of anything that’s been said, you seem like an awesome person. <3

No, you misunderstood. I do care, but not about the issue. About you.

I could be wrong about the issue.

I’m sorry if I made you upset. Honestly.

Ofc I have no work regarding that because I was shitposting. I was hoping you’d take things a bit more lightly.

Personally, I’m a bit within the autism spectrum. When I was a kid I had a lot of trouble with some social hints that other people seemed to pick up really fast. With time some of those things I’ve learnt to pick up better, and others not so much. Also got bullied and that wasn’t fun.

My impression of this situation is that you misread a social hint, which is fine, and then got a little bit defensive about it, which is also fine. I can understand that. Has happened to me a billion times and I’m not as graceful as you are.

It’s just like… For me it was better to, at some point, stop resisting the pain of accepting I didn’t read these things as well as others did and just admitting “sorry, sometimes i don’t get when ppl are joking” because it reminded me of being in the spectrum and therefore different… For me, this was unthinkable… So I kept insisting on points when many others were telling me, with relative compassion, that I may have made a mistake.

I don’t care about the issue we were talking about anymore. Just want you to understand that even if I do believe you made a mistake in reading the situation, It’s not what I now consider relevant of this conversation, don’t think you were wrong in your perspective regarding security and I’m not laughing at you. I’m not doing anything at your expense. Just sharing a personal difficulty with you for your own possible benefit.

Idk if you can relate, but if you can maybe it could help.

Peace, friend, and have a great week. <3

I know! Could literally happen to anyone!

No, in this case it’s true independent of my opinion or perspective.

What an inappropiate and sexually charged question.

At least this guy says he made a mistake. What’s your excuse?

Kinda was. Sry.

How about 0.001 security?