made'o'meter

From the «yankee bastards» department:
Title: Made O’Meter helps you easily and quickly avoid American products
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:31:59 +0000
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/141877/made-ometer-helps-you-easily-and-quickly-avoid-american-products/

With the United States having started an incredibly dumb and destructive trade
war with Canada, Mexico, and most likely soon the European Union, there’s quite
a few people who want to avoid American products. With how interconnected the
global production chain and corporate ownership structures are, it’s often
difficult to determine where products actually come from. Luckily, technology
can help. There’s online directories like Buy European Made[1], which lists
European companies in all kinds of markets, or European Alternatives[2], which
focuses on listing European alternatives to online services.

As nice as these are, they are quite manual, and require people to actively
search around, which is kind of a hassle when you’re making a quick grocery
store run. What if we could use image recognition to just take a photo of a
product’s box, and have our phone tell us where a product’s made? That’s
exactly what Made O’Meter[3] does: take a photo of a product, wait for a few
seconds, and it’ll tell you exactly where it’s made. It’s made in Denmark, with
the goal to “support Europe, Canada & friends”.

I’ve been trying it out on various products around the house, from groceries
like cereals and cookies, to tech products and clothing we just bought that
still had the tags on them. Every result turned out to be 100% accurate, and it
takes only a few seconds to analyse each photo. It also doesn’t seem to be too
fussy with the quality of the photos themselves – it doesn’t care about hands
and fingers in the frame, or weirdly-shaped boxes that don’t fit nicely in a
view finder. It’s a website, not an app – very platform-agnostic, which is
great – and I was using it in Firefox for Android without issue.

If you want to avoid American products, Made O’Meter is a great tool to have
with you the next time you order something or run to the store.

Links:
[1]: https://www.buy-european-made.eu/ (link)
[2]: https://european-alternatives.eu/ (link)
[3]: https://madeometer.com/ (link)