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

  • Einar@lemm.ee
    33·
    2 years ago

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

    • Izzy@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years 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.

  • John_Coomsumer@beehaw.org
    295·
    2 years 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.

    • nik0@lemm.ee
      181·
      2 years 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.

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
    22·
    2 years ago

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

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years 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

  • Ashtear@lemm.ee
    12·
    2 years 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).

  • raubarno@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 years 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

  • fubo@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 years ago

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

  • kim (she/her)@lemmy.ml
    91·
    2 years 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.

  • sculd@beehaw.org
    7·
    2 years ago

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

  • Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
    103·
    2 years 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.