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To say everyone should boycott House of Whisky

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Tillow4ever · 08/06/2026 09:41

I’ve just seen that a company called House of Whisky has created a post on the ALCOHOL SUPPORT board to advertise their company and talk about how they ship their whiskies worldwide etc.

AIBU to think this is a really scummy, low and morally corrupt practice and we should make it backfire on them and boycott their company?

I think it’s disgusting they’ve gone onto a forum intended for people to get help with their alcohol addiction to advertise alcohol for sale. Obviously I have reported their post as it’s advertising anyway, but hopefully people will see this and choose to shop elsewhere with someone who won’t stoop to such depths.

I have marked the image as sensitive (might take a while to appear) - if you have a problematic relationship with alcohol, I would advise you don’t open it. I have only included it as proof of my claim, I don’t want to advertise them further.

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To say everyone should boycott House of Whisky
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Tillow4ever · 08/06/2026 10:25

Those who say I’m unreasonable I would genuinely like to understand why you think this is ok?

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Tillow4ever · 08/06/2026 10:25

@smallglassbottleIt’s not an advert. It’s a post. They’ve chosen to create a username with their business as the username, then started a post in alcohol support describing in detail the service they offer etc. Nothing to do with an algorithm. I think the photo is available now - take a look to see what I mean. That’s not an unfortunate accident, that’s a conscious decision to target alcoholics.

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smallglassbottle · 08/06/2026 10:15

I think it's the algorithm that does this. I doubt there's a human behind it.

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