While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying US military vessels with fuel.
    • unused_user_name@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      Not sure this is correct though. Of course all these companies are multinationals, but not all of these are American companies. For example Unilever is British and Nestle is Swiss (have not checked them all).

      • RidgeDweller@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Right, I think it’s maybe representing the 20 highest grossing food brands in the US, whether they’re US companies or not.

      • Tja@programming.devEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        However Nestlé has a whole host of reasons for their own boycott, straight evil stuff they are directly responsible for.

    • Lineman@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Pretty sure Nestle is Swiss and Saputo is Canadian. No doubt they have big US operations.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
    English
    7·
    3 months ago

    Cancelled a bunch of subscriptions after trump support for Ukraine. Seems like the only language americans understand is 💸

  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

    As a Canadian in this shit for a month, go for it!!! My last groceries contained 0% products from USA, if it’s doable for us Canadian, you can do it too! And don’t forget to cancel netflix, disney+, prime, etc.

  • takeiteasypolicy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    3 months ago

    the biggest US exports are its software products. Until the time we have a way to avoid Google, Reddit, Meta, Microsoft, ChatGPT etc, we aren’t boycotting anything meaningful.

  • mrhenry77@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    3 months ago

    Our family Netflix subscription ran for over 10 years and yesterday I canceled it. I also canceled my subscriptions for discord, chatGPT, claude and dropbox. BOYCOTT U.S. SOFTWARE

    • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
      19·
      3 months ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru

      lol

      “Originally selling it as Iron Brew, the drink’s makers, A.G. Barr, were forced to change the name of the drink in 1946 following a change in the law that stipulated that the marketing of products be “literally true”. As the drink did not contain much iron, nor was it brewed”

      “The brand also has its own tartan”

    • imvii@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      I sell this in my store in Canada.

      I would love an Irn Bru sugar version. I don’t like the taste of Aspartame

  • AidsKitty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    538·
    3 months ago

    Guess they aren’t really our allies after all. The truth always comes out eventually.

  • ray1992xd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I won’t go as far as to nuke all my accounts just yet but last year I made a big effort to use less of big tech companies. This is my drive to slowly continue doing that this year. I will finish my games that will not run on Linux without tinkering and then I’m quitting the hell that is Windows for good.

  • lance20000@lemmy.caEnglish
    381·
    3 months ago

    Good, fuck the USA and it’s garbage products. It’d be harder to do if they weren’t shit now, but perpetually cutting quality is basically the USA’s motto. Now they are experiencing it in the government.

  • Lanske@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    3 months ago

    I know that my country - The Netherlands imports a lot from the US, so i am trying not to. Ditched all my Meta accounts, closed Amazon account/prime and Kindle, moved away from Google to several other services, stopped several streaming services and when we buy products from the supermarket actively check wheter products are from the US, and replace them with local/EU/Canadian products.

    • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      From Canada, I’ve done the same as you, but I’m struggling to de Google. Any suggestions?

      • Lanske@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago
        • Protonmail (i know it gets a lot of backfire on lemmy) and tutamail for mail
        • Proton drive for google drive
        • for travel i use TomoTom Go (amigo is free)
        • Duckduckgo and librewolf as browsers
        • Qwant and Ecosia as search engines

        good luck, and don’t flame me for using Proton lol

      • a Kendrick fan@lemmy.mlEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        GrapheneOS, CalyxOs or LineageOs as an alternative to just using android.

        F-droid and Aurora store for almost all android apps, Obtainium if you can find your way around git forges.

        Tuta mail, Posteo and other alternatives for Gmail.

        Firefox and Thunderbird as replacement for Chrome and Gmail app

        Duckduckgo/Ecosia(uses Microsoft’s Bing), Kagi(good but paid), SearX(free but you can run into limits quickly), Marginalia(nonpaid websites only) :- all are replacements for Google search, also learn to use search bangs to quickly take advantages of different search engine

        i don’t use almost all of Google’s other products but a search would pop up other alternatives. Don’t forget to use Google Takeout if you have an account with them.

        Goodluck!

        • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Firefox and Mozilla to a larger extent may be going down the gutter soon. They have been angling towards AI shit, and then their new terms of service debacle this last week makes it clear they want to sell your data for ads.

          I’ve moved from FF to Zen browser, which is a fork. And also Librewolf, another fork.

        • rxbudian@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I wanted to use GrapheneOS, but only they only officially support Pixel.
          That means people have to pay Google upfront before deGoogling

        • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I appreciate it thanks! I’ve been using DDG and fire fox for a while. I’ll have to look up this Google takeout. Thanks again for the tips!

          • Lanske@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            Google take out worked for me to export all my google foto’s so i can save them somewhere else! I was using firefox as well, but moving now towards Librefox, duckduckgo browsers. I also like Vivaldi but not sure how good it is on the privacy meters :)

      • emanuga@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Switched from Protonmail (after being a paying email/vpn/drive customer for 5 yrs) to Fastmail. Couldn’t be happier - if you have a 1Password account you get a discount and via the integration with 1Password it auto populates masked emails for discardable logins - same as SimpleLogin for protonmail.