Original Publish Date » April 8 , 2025
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Mark MacKinnon / The Globe and Mail » For Dominique Pipier, avoiding American foods came easily. She lives surrounded by fresh produce in the south of France and wouldn’t darken the door of a McDonald’s.
The real challenge in Ms. Pipier’s decision to join “Le Boycott” – as the French movement to avoid everything American is colloquially known – is to wean herself off the ubiquitous U.S. internet giants. To show her anger at Trump’s policies, the 73-year-old stopped ordering packages from Amazon and cancelled her subscriptions to the Seattle-based giant’s video streaming and music services.
