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All modern business is built on trust, since Americans are keen on throwing that out the door now, every EU business is going to re-evaluate who to trust.
Which means, no longer trusting American.
Go European: Discover European products and services
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#52In Canada, there's a big push for buying Canadian given the Trump trade war, and especially avoiding products from the US. A kitchen store I went into over the weekend had little red maple leaf stamps on the price tags of Canadian products and the provincial liquor store in Ontario has pulled US products from shelves (though that's more of a marketing stunt by the populist Premier). Many Canadian-owned businesses have added logos at the top of their webpages (I noticed Canada Computers and Memory Express over the last few days, as I was browsing for graphics cards).
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#53If you are advocating for European products, I would expect you to use Plausible or similar products instead of Google Analytics. This would allow you to avoid displaying the cookie banner.
They are used for different things. If you are doing paid marketing or other more or less complex marketing Plausible doesn’t cut it.
Could you be more specific? As far as I know, they have bunch of features like funnels, goals, revenue attributions etc.: https://plausible.io/docs/top-referrers
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#54Did similar movements had a measurable impact? Asking because I have the impression that boycott movements are ineffective, but I never verified that.
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#55Great to see a directory like this starting to include physical products. I'd be interested in having some extra datapoints to help with decision making: - How much of the product/company's supply chain is in EU (to get an idea of just how European the product is, is it made here or abroad) - Some way to show if the company is paying "fair" tax in EU (or are profits shifted abroad) These are difficult datapoints to g…
It might be worth noting that this is not specific to the EU, it's the whole of Europe. So for example it includes companies from Norway, Switerzland and the UK. So asking how much tax is paid or how much supply chain is in the EU doesn't necissarily make sense here.
Substitute EU with EU+norway/switzerland/UK/etc
The idea is whether the company has some loophole where the profits are registered in some offshore island in order to avoid taxes, as well as how big part of the product is actually made in europe as opposed as in X non-european country. I have seen a lot of products advertised as being products of the native country when they are actually rebranded chinese products or whatever (I have no issue with chinese products, but if the point is to know which products are european products this is important information).
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#56Go Scaleway! I always wanted to root for it.
And yet the website is hosted on AWS :')
Quite telling, this would be an ideal case for Scaleway/OVH/anyone else.
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#57Switzerland and the UK will always be honorary Europeans. {hug emoji}
Switzerland hugs back
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#58Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe! Added my company ( https://mailpace.com ) - I’m looking forward to a resurgence of innovation in European tech companies, the talent and education here is amazing, we just need to improve our investment and start treating tech with as much respect as we give to law, finance and other “prestigious” career paths here
I know that it's not in the cards (yet), but I hope the UK and the EU can be a single market again (even if the UK does not rejoin the EU). Let's make our market as large and attractive as possible! We love the UK and you are part of the European family :hugs:.
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#59There's also a browser extension: https://codeberg.org/K-Robin/GoEuropean
(btw: codeberg is the European alternative to Github)
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#60While I do find it an interesting exercise to reflect over my own choices of products and services and consider how I could divest myself from relying on ones provided by US companies (and I do agree Europe is too reliant on the US in some regards), it is a bit sad to see how quickly things are spiraling here. People really love to have a clear enemy...
If you walk into a European supermarket, fashion store or MediaMarkt there is very little coming from the US.
The giant container ships are coming from the East not the West.