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mine is BlackRock if you consider that an tech company if not then my second is meta facebook

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[-] Pechente@feddit.de 88 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 52 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] scorpious@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I use Affinity sometimes, but PS, AI, & AE rule the roost because they are just better at most tasks.

PSSm: Apple Motion flies way below the radar and can do a LOT of things better/more elegantly than AE.

I delivered two seasons worth of graphics for a network show, and 85-90% was done completely in Motion.

[-] Pechente@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

Have you heard of Oracle? It’s the database version of Adobe, but maybe worse. They seem to deploy more lawyers than technical staff.

[-] 6xpipe_@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

They’re also the company who mainstreamed the software subscription model.

It used to be that only services required subscriptions. Applications would be a one time payment. But, Adobe converted to the subscription model and because they hold a monopoly over the design space, people/companies had no choice but to go along. Once they were successful, every business in the world decided that they also wanted that sweet monthly payment and now software licensing sucks.

I refuse to even pirate Adobe products on principle.

TL;DR Fuck Adobe, use open source.

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[-] Phanatik@kbin.social 61 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] techognito@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

"Erosion of consumer rights" goes for pretty much all tech large companies.

"you will own nothing and be happy" seems to be the way the new standard way of living.

[-] Phanatik@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

Very true. Subscription services and live service models are among the most parasitic inventions that have become common.

[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

And you haven't even reached Nestlé yet...

[-] Bitrot 12 points 10 months ago

Not a tech company, just one of the worst companies. Thanks Switzerland.

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[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 53 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just naming a company isn't particularly useful. Some context would be great, so others can hate the company too. 🫠

[-] souperk@reddthat.com 21 points 10 months ago

They just own everything. Literally everything.

They are an asset management company not a tech company though.

[-] IzzyData@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

One specifically bad thing about BlackRock is them buying up huge swaths of single family homes which increases prices and makes it more difficult for anyone to own property. Then they rent them out to people after they were not capable of getting a mortgage.

But BlackRock is absolutely enormous so that is just a drop in the bucket of what they do.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 52 points 10 months ago

Oracle. They have the midas touch of enshittification

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Same with IBM. I pity you of your business decides to go with IBM for vital enterprise services that you have to maintain.

Kill me

[-] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 46 points 10 months ago

X. I can’t think of a tech company that’s done more harm this year.

[-] xigoi 15 points 10 months ago

You say that as if destroying Twitter was a bad thing.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 10 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] John_Coomsumer@beehaw.org 37 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Venomnik0@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] scorpious@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago
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[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

Meta, they have a huge reach to a lot of ignorant people and they seem actively disdainful of user privacy.

[-] Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.net 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Reddit did something pretty shitty this year and is the reason many of us are here.

Blizzard Activision if we are counting gaming companies with their sexual harassment controversies which have led to suicide (also the cosby suite), their shitty monetization schemes, and the utter ruination of most of their popular IPs

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Id argue Blackrock is a finance company that uses tech rather than being a tech company. But the differences these days are pretty negligible. In my mind a tech company provides tech to end users (google fb etc). Maybe a fintech? But even then in my mind thats more like a start up “modern tech” bank rather than a classical bank.

Meta, XFormerlyKnownAsTwitter, Google are all pretty bad for society these days

[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Meta.

Amazon I'd advocate for the nationalization of, at least of AWS. Meta caused a genocide and just needs to go. There's nothing they can provide that another company can't. Yeah WhatsApp is entrenched in much of the world, but it doesn't have to stay that way.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

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).

[-] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago
[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago
[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago

How about MANGA

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[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

EDIT: removed Medium link

[-] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

For me it's a tie between Oracle, Atlassian, and Microsoft.

All three of them have built their business models around intentional poor design = money for extra services. They could make their software easier and more functional, but they intentionally don't so because it would hurt their profits. That kind of greed is inexcusable to me.

[-] spiderman@ani.social 7 points 10 months ago

Confluence is one of the shittiest things I have ever had to work on.

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[-] gruf@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

Amazon, Facebook (Meta), Microsoft, OpenAI are top of my list simply due to being aware of them.

though I'm sure most large tech corps have blood on their hands in some way or another, doing "well" under capitalism demands exploitation.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Facebook is the one that took as its goal to insert itself as a middleman into all human social interaction.

[-] sculd@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago

Google easily, because they control so much of information inflow, the potential to do harm is much much greater

[-] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

If we're limited to just tech companies, it's gotta be Amazon. Their unfair business practices and horrible work conditions make them one of the most deplorable companies on the planet

[-] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are a lot of evil tech companies, but NSO is the worst I can think of.

[-] nicman24@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

can we count disney? netflix counts, so disney should count too

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