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Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?

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I call this kind of argument "ignited gas burner cools the water". The water boils, so evaporation increases, so evaporative cooling increases, which cools the water.

Edit: I mean: most of the bad stuff creates secondary effects which work the opposite way and can be considered good.

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While I agree that Europe needs its own companies I don't think turning allies into enemies is a good idea.

It isn’t but unfortunately it’s what Trump is doing on purpose.

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It's one thing to visit the website, but I would be interested what % is actually migrating? For me personally, I had to install the "Go European" browser extension [1] before I actually started switching, due to more frequent reminders, from using mostly chatGPT/claude to LeChat by mistral (which feels at least as good). My Take-away: User stickiness is hard to break due to providers' walled gardens, even for me who…

I started switching. Email was pretty easy to set up a new account with a different provider and to change on the main websites I use. Good way to "unsubscribe" to a load of spam as well. Switching apps or uninstalling where possible on the phone helped. No more google maps for example, and removing or switching things like gmail or chrome from the home screen also helped break the habit of checking them.

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why would Europeans not like it?

edit: aha, misread the comment, i read it as, roughly: "europeans would not like it if americans start looking at the european alternatives", not "looking at alternatives to european products" - yes, i agree, Europeans would not like that.

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We remember the stupid "freedom fries" era. Besides, the whole reason this started was the US president trying to "encourage" Americans not to buy EU products with tariffs.

As with Chinese manufacturing, the US may find it harder than it expects. Especially as the trade surplus includes a lot of pharmaceuticals and B2B products.

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why would Europeans not like it? edit: aha, misread the comment, i read it as, roughly: "europeans would not like it if americans start looking at the european alternatives", not "looking at alternatives to european products" - yes, i agree, Europeans would not like that.

"In 2022, 692,334 new EU-made cars were exported to the US, worth €36bn ($37bn; £30bn). While only 116,207 new US-made cars went in the opposite direction, for €5.2bn."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8kn5v37wxo

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