Here's my list that I avoid if and where I can. As with everything, things are nuanced and complex, and it's not like every company I personally boycott is outright bad or good all around. I wasn't going to write down the reasoning for each and every one, but ask away if you want to know about the reasoning behind particular ones. I'll also note, this is 100% not in any order (other than as they came to mind), it was time consuming enough making this vs. ranking them all!

Disney
EA
Volkswagen
Tesla
BMW
Audi
NVIDIA
Nintendo
Google
Apple
Facebook
Shell
Microsoft
X
Discord
Reddit
Old Spice
Costco
Netflix
Spotify
Nestle
Toyota
Tencent
Blizzard
Uber
DuPont
Fountain Tire
Walmart
Boeing
Brave
Princess
Moxies Group
Hewlett Packard
Amazon

On the flip side, companies that while not perfect, I think overall are doing good things that I try to support when I can (if only with word of mouth in some cases):

Valve
Framework
Firefox
Pine64
Raspberry Pi
Hyundai
Lucid
System 76
A&W
Trail Tire
Plex
Amanita Games
iBroadcast
Volvo
Napa
Fairphone

There's probably more I'm missing, I'm a pretty strong believer that companies rule most of the western world and that if individuals want the world to meaningfully improve, we have to vote with our wallets as diligently as we vote at the polling stations.

Nestle

Walmart

All of the big ones

Anything made by or connected to Nestle for sure

They have a lot of blood on their hands.

Bayer.

Apple, Microsoft, Oracle.

Shell gas station. They bought dirty Russian oil

Google until they change their eulas wotc to stop themselves from doing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity?wprov=sfla1

This thread has lots of company names without references or explanations.

While " controversy" is probably a solid search term, we could do better by including "why" right in the comments.

Exxon

Chevron

Shell

I keep reading everywhere "fuck nestle" and then I see their 2022 FY report with sales increased to 104.95 billion thats 8.4% from.previous year.

So the question now is

WHO'S FUCKING WHO ?

I think the main take away is that this applies to most, if not all, publicly traded companies?

I know this isn't really an option for most people but consider dropping Deloitte KPMG and all banks that aren't cooperatives.

Vanguard and Blackrock. Their retirement fund allow them to have a significant share of major companies when compared to individuals

I forgot the name but that one shit company with a U that is literally as bad as Nestle