Wix
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Last updated May 7, 2026
Reasons to avoid
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- Wix fired Dublin employee Courtney Carey after she posted on LinkedIn expressing solidarity with Palestinians and calling Israel a 'terrorist state.' Ireland's Workplace Relations Commission later ruled the firing was procedurally unfair and ordered Wix to pay compensation.
- Leaked internal communications showed Wix had created a company Slack channel called 'Supporting Israel Narrative,' directing employees to produce pro-Israel content online, with one message instructing staff to emphasize that 'unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans and Americans.'
- Intentionally designed their product to make it difficult to cancel services and avoid unauthorized auto-renewals.
- In 2016, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg publicly accused Wix of copying code from the open-source WordPress mobile app without attribution or GPL compliance. Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami admitted using the code but dismissed the license violation as minor, and Wix removed it only after public pressure.
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