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.

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.

  • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
    37·
    2 days 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.

    • AnnieByniaeth@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

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