L’Europa ha alternative ai prodotti americani
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L’Europa ha alternative ai prodotti americani
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di wandererbit
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Dunno why ProtonMail keeps making it on these lists. Their CEO is a Trump supporter.
Where is Breizh Cola??
Solovair are a far better product than dr martens
Where Dacia
I didn’t know about Revolt! Finally an alternative to Discord. Thanks
Why does it remind me so much of Russia in 2022?
This list comes up from time to time, but most of these brands are not even available or completely unknown in my country. None of the fast foods chains are, for example.
Also for example, not going to use social media/service nobody else is using. For example, not going to leave messenger, simply because that’s how I mainly communicate with my friends and family, and that’s simply much more important to me then this boycott.
Some digital alternative: https://european-alternatives.eu/
Most of the alternatives are ignoring some countries valid products and many are purely regional
Another day, another one
Drink: Kofola (Blaaaaargh…)
Rivella, San Pelligrino….?
Many of those alternatives suck. Lot of things to get done.
Specially tech and services. Most of those things do not have proper companies behind them.
That list is far from complete, of course. Also, most EU alternatives are more ethical, more sustainable and less anti-competitive when compared to the US products. There is a lot wrong with some of those US companies. We should have ditched them a long time ago. And if you are looking for more EU alternatives for a specific product or service, there are many more to be found on https://www.goeuropean.org
Or ask about it on r/buyfromeu
LOL but this IS Reddit!
And “WhatsApp” is practically non-existent in the US! lol!
A good number of those “American” companies are not American, or at the very least, are not single-state entities.
In today’s global world, what does it mean to be from the US? Does it mean that all its owners (shareholders) are US-based? If I buy a stock in Google (Apple, etc.) as a European resident, can the whole of Europe use that company’s products and services as if it were European?
we’ve got Lidl!!
What we need is to try to use anything but American, Russian or Chinese if possible. Not necessarily Europe made.
Europe doesn’t have good enough alternatives to many of products from the US, but there alternatives from other countries are fine too IMHO.
Why isn’t Signal on here? I’ve noticed that more and more people are using it instead of WhatsApp.
Currently, I’m using both, and as soon as someone has Signal, I only use that to interact with them.
When has booking.com become American?
Their HQ was in Amsterdam NL.
Guys – you have lot of great products, but trust me that doesn’t work this way. I have too wide experience of living in Rus who was crying its head off about having alternatives for everything in the world. (Facepalm)
The fact that modern world was built in a way we were exchanging a lot of goods with each other and there was no sense in having their own “great alternative for bicycle”. That was how normal world supposed to work. But this model of “modern world” is temporary(I hope so) knocked out. Trust me – you have no relevant equivalents for some points (like services and some tech solutions) ATM. And it’s ok. Don’t deceive yourself. There is a lot of work to be done.
I’m an atheist but God thanks in rus we can’t build real alternatives for most of these things. This Uroboros of corruption could eat himself. But I hope you guys – can. It won’t be that fast and easy. And I wish you to find some adequate allies on this path. I don’t know, maybe you could bring someone like Japan and South Korea in your club. I wish you good luck.
I am sure booking is nl company , although American owned. But in that case Mistral ai is largely funded by Microsoft.
Most of these aren’t true alternatives. There’s no alternative to WhatsApp, none of my contacts will move to some rando app. There’s not alternative to Steam, Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD, etc. All the other “alternatives” are just shittier version of better products like Google Maps.
All European social are heavily censored and monitored, even worse so than the already censored American counterpart. So thank you but no thanks 👍
Never heard of the overwhelming majority of these, and the rest is meh to garbage, apart from the cars. They are fine.
Drinks!…none of those are drinks! they are sweets in liquid form. Water, Tea and coffee would be a good start.
Posted on Reddit from your iPhone, correct?
But I love Reddit:(
Damn America really do got all the good shit though
Aren’t you on a US website now?
I see… My opinion is that it is possible to replace with European ones, it needs to be replaced, but if there are no European analogues that are identical in functionality, then this is madness. We need to gradually create demand for European ones.
Ehm.. Booking.com is dutch?
Fast food alternatives be like. Italy: hold my trattoria
What are the european versions of onlyfans and pornhub?
Man, it just shows, atleast on the tech side, who far behind Europe are. Except for ProtonMail and Le chat, I know none of those other services.
Atleast from Cars and down the list I would say Europe is even better, but everything above Cars, we are just soooo behind.
Ladies and gentlemen, for food and primary needs, what about supporting your local food producers?
Fast food? Go for a pizza, kebab, or anything that makes things out of big chains, they cost pretty much the same as McDonald’s nowadays.
Cars in Europe is not a big issue, Ford is absolutely a disaster lately and you can get a better deal with Skoda in comparison even better deal with any German car.
Clothing, I cannot stress it enough that you can find very good clothing in Europe that are relatively cheap.
The part that begins to be difficult is electronics, or apps, that would mean to change many different generations of people mind. If I ask my mother to delete Facebook, I don’t think I will be successful in a long term.
Phones? Maybe Samsung can be a good replacement, but I know that many people consider iPhone as status symbol of luxury (such idiocracy we live in).
Anyway, boycotting is good if done in a long term and here we are speaking about years if not decades to be effective, not just months. Keep in mind.
I’ve had protonmail for years (got in real early because of this anarchist friend that was really into online privacy at the time – protonmail is encrypted) and I actually considered deleting protonmail cause every time I have to give my email to someone, they say WHAT, and then I have to spell it out letter by letter. Sometimes they even ask what kinda mail is that, and or gets kinda tiring to have a conversation about emails every time I try to sign a contract or whatever.
I tried Gmail for a while, but went back to protonmail after a couple of weeks. Might be cause I’m just more used to it now, but in my experience protonmail works much better.