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Danish app UdenUSA helps consumers identify US products amid Greenland tensions (english.dotdotnews.com)

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A mobile application designed to help Danish consumers avoid purchasing American-made products is surging in popularity as anti-US sentiment rises in Denmark following the US's controversial interest in acquiring Greenland. The app, called UdenUSA ("Without USA"), was developed by 21-year-old Jonas Pipper and his friend Malthe Hensberg. The creators say the app responds to growing demand from consumers who wish to avoid US-made goods but struggle to identify product origins in supermarkets.

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[-] redlemace@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

Thnx neighbors! I Downloaded directly! Step 1: create account or login.

And i un-installed. I don't see any need for login to identify product origins.

[-] addie@feddit.uk 37 points 1 week ago

Don't want to dig out the XKCD about competing standards, but there are a lot of these applications and they don't quite do what they could. I've got No Thanks! on my phone, which lets you scan barcodes to identify companies that support Israel to avoid them, but really what I want is:

scan a barcode, or look them up in a list
describes the thing (to make sure that it's the correct barcode) and gives you the list of the list of company ownerships, and their associated country, and any problematic statements by owners etc.
have a user-defined list of countries and companies that I'd like to avoid, for a quick yes-no on a given scan.

Personally, I want to avoid anything sourced from imperial war-mongers (USA, Russia, Israel, ..), anything from 'Brexit Bastards' (Dyson et al) and anything from Fucking Nestle (who make it really difficult to responsibly buy cat food, which is a problem for me); but I appreciate that other people other criteria. Maybe you'd like to boycott any company or owners that have expressed support for the far right, for instance? (I do too, of course.) But none of the existing apps quite seem to cover every use case; need to develop an additional standard that covers everyone.

[-] Cherry@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Same!

But I am starting to hate my phone and I’m damn sick of apps.

[-] AnnieByniaeth@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

That's exactly my criteria too. Bonus for the app being available natively on platforms such as Sailfish or Ubuntu phone.

[-] PheasantPlucker@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Detrumpify is a French alternative https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.detrumpezvous.app

[-] Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Trump would be absolutely stupid to invade Greenland. Particularly now, with Iran going on which he started.

[-] ati@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Absolutely stupid, you say? Hmmm.

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