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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by deaddodo on Monday October 02, 2023 @03:54AM (#37735111)
I couldn't care less where my item is produced. It just so happens that a large variety of high-end products are produced at a higher level of quality (and cost, generally) in the West (including S Korea and Japan); but if someone introduced me to a Nigerian, Mexican, Thai, etc product that surpassed my current choice, I would switch in an instant.

I don't understand caring at all about the source, unless there is some fundamental moral hangup with it (such as blood diamonds, for instance).

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by rvnx on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:32AM (#37735414)
Privacy laws are different depending on the country of the publisher of the software.

Generally European countries provide the best protections and the fact it is published in Japan may imply that the US laws don’t apply there (and be a + or not)

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by pil0u on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:54AM (#37735593)
Some people care about items not travelling twice the globe before landing home.

Other people care about work conditions for the produced items they buy, namely not manufactured by children, for which country origin could be an indicator.

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by Xeamek on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:05AM (#37735675)
>Some people care about items not travelling twice the globe before landing home

Which is pretty dumb thing to care about, since these journeys have minimal carbon footprint, compared to something like local delivery

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by alwyn on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:58AM (#37736097)
Can you elaborate on the minimal carbon footprint in this context?
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by deaddodo on Monday October 02, 2023 @11:40AM (#37739557)
> unless there is some fundamental moral hangup with it
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by thefounder on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:25AM (#37737208)
How can you evaluate the quality of a product that was not built yet?
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by zaphirplane on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:44PM (#37740766)
Most people don’t buy 500 cars or 390 tv. It’s just about reputation and isn’t branding a reputation.

Cars made in foo are good, tv made is bar have bad QA

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