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> We will send you one (1) email newsletter with charitable activities to spend money on instead of spending it on unnecessary stuff

What's wrong with showing that list right on your website? Why do you want my email?

As Mailchimp "monkey-rewards" (lol) logotype at the bottom inticates - probably just to send even more affiliate links than ones currently displayed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

After seeing a bunch of Black Friday adverts on tech websites (e.g. VPN sales, domain sales, and so on) and looking at infographics showing exponential sales growth on this day for the past several years, I've decided to assemble a list of companies that aren't just doing their best to raise their revenues on BF, but actually use the moment to do something good. That's what the Black Friday basically is.

Is it really necessary to include "fuck" in the name? It strikes me as completely unnecessary and alienating to a lot of people.

Try these instead:

- Ignore Black Friday

- Forget Black Friday

- Buy Nothing Black Friday

etc.

I came to say the exact same thing. I say fuck in my life a lot but I feel that here it is not really adding anything, I don't feel shocked when I see it I just feel irritated. A recent blog post that was posted here recently with fuck in the title, I skipped over it immediately. The only time I can think of that using the word fuck actually made me look more favorable on something was https://gofuckingdoit.com/.

"Black Friday" is an offensive phrase to me. It's unnecessary and alienating to me; the very concept reminds me that I am trapped in a consumerist hell. On the other hand, fucking is quite natural, quite reasonable, happens all the time in healthy societies, and is part of the backbone of human existence,

Try these instead:

* Fuck consumerism

* Fuck malls

* Fuck sale pricing

And so on.

Or, you know, some people find Black Friday, consumerism, and malls vulgar and off-putting, and find an overuse of expletives equally vulgar.

Saying fuck doesn't harm anyone, fetishized consumer culture does.

As the notion of black friday has spread fairly convincingly to the UK (in the last 5-10 years, particularly the last 2-3) there's a bit of push back here.

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/17226966.buy-now...

'Nowt' being yorkshire vernacular for 'nothing'.

For myself, I picked up a pretty good deal on some headphones, and also spent a load of money on coffee beans yesterday to have just about every coffee roaster I've ever ordered from email me this morning to offer 25% off. You win some you lose some.

Ever since I heard of an elderly man being trampled to death on Black Friday the whole holiday makes me sick. I just don't purchase anything (except utilities I guess) on black friday. I wish traditions like this would die.

This is cool. It would have been even better if the full contents were available to the users without having to enter the email. Seems kinda pointless to have to enter my email address to get "one (1) email newsletter".

Nothing but a poorly-worded rant against Black Friday followed by several referral links to retailers.

Yes, referral links to retailers.

Nope. No affiliate links on the website.

Meh. I'm keeping my precious money, and spending it on useful things for myself instead.

Childish website. Flack Friday is crucial for retail, economic growth and beneficial for the consumers as with larger movement of goods, margins are dropping. As a matter of fact it also carriers a sentimental vibe with a hint of a tradition.

I only see some straw man anti-arguments that don't really explain why black Friday or consumer driven economies are bad (hint: they are not)

EDIT: looks like I overreacted by taking the OPs intent seriously. It turns out to be just a landing page for referrals? Oh the irony.

Yep. Let’s consume consume and endlessly consume and Trash the planet.

US is already the largest producer of greenhouse emissions considering its population. We also consume a crazy amount of energy per capita and not much of our garbage gets recycled.

Sure mindless consumption might be good for GDP but it isn’t great for the planet.

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