mine is BlackRock if you consider that an tech company if not then my second is meta facebook
Nobody mentioned Adobe yet. They’re absolutely the worst. They offer creative products behind a 70$ / month paywall and they hold a monopoly in their field. Only need their software sporadically? Sorry, no plan for you.
They haven’t significantly updated some of their software in like 20 years. I currently have the displeasure of using After Effects again and apart from not even supporting system dark mode on macOS or even fullscreen mode, there are all kinds of weird small bugs that you just get used to when using the software for a while.
Fuck Adobe.
Remember kids. It is always morally correct to pirate adobe products.
I’m a graphic designer and honestly, been thinking long and hard about switching to Affinity. Affinity Designer even seems like it would streamline most of my workflow.
I switched to Affinity! It’s great. Not all of the features are there but most of them. It’s also much less buggy and the interface is way better thought out.
They don’t make a replacement for After Effects though, that’s why I’m stuck with it for one project.
Affinity designer is a great tool if you are looking to use it. I can’t say for the newer versions due to reasons, but some 4 years ago that I tried it, it absolutely blew me away. Easy to use, lots of advanced features, stable, great pricing. And they got a v2 as well, unfortunately v1 customers will need to rebut though at a discounted price.
Have you heard of Oracle? It’s the database version of Adobe, but maybe worse. They seem to deploy more lawyers than technical staff.
Facebook is the one that took as its goal to insert itself as a middleman into all human social interaction.
Microsoft - erosion of any motivation to understand your PC so they can put whatever they want in their updates and you won’t know until you dig through the logs
Facebook - erosion of any critical thinking by rewarding echo chambers and groupthink. Just look at their Metaverse shite.
Amazon - erosion of labour standards and publishing anti-union propaganda to prevent workers from realising they’re being abused. Also, instituting anti-competitive measures and strongarming third party sellers.
OpenAI (insert any LLM/generative model company) - erosion of the creative process thus allowing people with zero artistic expression to plagiarise other artists’ work
EA (or any AAA studio but also Nintendo) - erosion of consumer rights to own the products they buy and preventing any effort to preserve their games AND THEN complaining about piracy.
Dear lord, it is so exhausting to list these out.
And you haven’t even reached Nestlé yet…
Not a tech company, just one of the worst companies. Thanks Switzerland.
X. I can’t think of a tech company that’s done more harm this year.
You say that as if destroying Twitter was a bad thing.
Twitter once was an online townhall where people can start any movement or use it to spread their movement to wide masses. These days it’s just some shitty tool for propaganda.
Spread movement to wide masses == propaganda
For some cases, yes it was bad. Plenty of organizations used Twitter as a micro blog to keep interested parties up to date… Like a short concise RSS. That’s what I primarily used Twitter for, for years, and that was Twitter at its best.
There are a lot of evil tech companies, but NSO is the worst I can think of.
palantir are pretty fucking evil, but you’re unlikely to have heard of them unless you’re social justice minded or have worked in tech.
Thiel is a vampire, in the metaphorical sociological sense and the literal one. Fucking creep.
Why is palantir bad ? Do you have some sources ?
They market themselves as a “big data” company, what they actually do is use “big data” in a way not unlike what Philip K Dick predicted in minority report. Instead of clarvoiant tank people it’s extremely racist algorithms though.
They have been involved in a bunch of racist “crime preventing” pre policing stuff. I believe at the moment they’re mostly used to round up migrants in the usa for whatever the fuck their border farce does over there.
Oracle. They have the midas touch of enshittification
Just naming a company isn’t particularly useful. Some context would be great, so others can hate the company too. 🫠
They just own everything. Literally everything.
They are an asset management company not a tech company though.
All of FAANG
Now it’s MAANG
Actually MAANA since Google is now Alphabet.
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its MAANAON since oracle and nextstar media group
How about MANGA
Apple. Not the most evil, for certain, but they have the highest percentage of high level business choices that piss me off. Just so antithetical to my philosophy and consumer preferences. All closed, all hyper controlled, low customization, anti-repairable.
Do it their way or go fuck yourself. Something break? Fuck you, it’s your fault, buy another one. Want to play games on their very capable hardware? Grow up, no compatibility. Want to make their OS work on other machines? How dare you. Thief.
I would say Apple isn’t as severe as something like Meta or “X” but the amount of influence apple has over the industry is insane. There’s a reason why so many laptops are losing ports “because the MacBook has it” or why smartphones are stagnating and when they “innovate” they’re just removing more features like the SD card reader all simply because “Apple did it”. Hell, Windows has been trying to be like Mac OS for years from its flat minimal design to its oversimplification of its design to trying to make their own “eco system”. Apple’s influence can even extend beyond tech with their flat minimalist, corporate design being applied to every industry and building and design ever to be conceived in 2023. Everyone is trying to be Apple from Tech companies to fast food joints. Truly if we measure their influence and the power they carry moving entire industries to do various things. They are one of the most powerful company in silicon valley. Everything we hate about modern tech and how restrictive it is can be sourced all the way back to Apple.
This perfectly describes everything I’ve thought about them but couldn’t fully express, thank you.
This is the whole reason I switched to Linux computers and Sony phones. If I wanted an Apple product I’d buy an Apple product. Give me back my headphone jack dammit.
I have a brand new Apple product with both a headphone jack and an SD card reader.
To be fair it only has HDMI and not a VGA connector, and there’s no floppy disk drive or serial port.
Everyone loves to hate.
Bro I was clearly talking about the phones not having a headphone jack.
Whichever contributes the most to anti-competitive corporate culture. Most problems at the end-user level can be solved by having sufficient competition (and some labor problems, too).
Unfortunately, there are plenty to choose from.
There’s Microsoft’s “embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy. Comcast’s creation of artificial legal barriers to competition by lobbying state and local lawmakers. And then there’s Amazon doing it by sheer hard power to put competitors under (plus all their anti-union crap).
Microsoft. I am sorry but they ruin everything they touch with bloat.
Any company that engages in vendor lock-in, abuses copyright of creators through generative AI for profit, tracks users for profit/advertising, or censors content and people on their platform that suggest alternative platforms.
Microsoft takes all 3 points. It has created a very terrible operating system that gets preinstalled on most PCs through unfair competition, makes it harder and harder to customize it, has created GitHub Copilot that infringes copyright for GPL-licensed software and adds mandatory telemetry and Microsoft account. Additionally, Constructively criticizing Microsoft products publicly is dangerous.
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Most comments about GAFAM, they are really hostile and bad for overall tech.
But take a look at China’s Tencent, that’s what those big tech companies would have been if not regulations. For example Tencent was literally blocking their chat app QQ if it detect on a computer an antvirus that was competion to their own antivirus.
it shouldn’t be just GAFAM it should include every evil company
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