Because they were accused of having uygar forced labour in their supply chains iirc

I doubt that the accusations were about forcing Uyghurs labor in California to do the dirty design and R&D work. It was always about manufacturing and assembly, which definitely does not happen in California.

Good point, misread, thanks

I think they’re asking why it’s so prominent (more in the title of this submission than the website itself) as if it’s the main feature of the browser

Japanese people are proud of their country. In some nations, like France or Bulgaria it’s taboo. But in the US or Japan it’s fine to be proud of where a product is coming from.

I get the opposite impression. Most people don't care. The remaining few, typically bigots, are active online. But you see those kinds of people almost anywhere on the globe.

There are, however, perceptions among the Japanese people that their own products are generally off higher quality.

Most Bulgarians are actually proud of their country, often sharing that the Cyrillic originated there, and focusing proudly on the old history and all kinds of inventors/achievements, even on stuff like the uniqueness of our yoghurt: so I have the opposite impression, as a Bulgarian

believe me the French are very, very proud of their country, that doesn't really mean you need to buy into rather cringy economic 'patriotism'. Especially when it makes zero sense as in the case of software. It's not like this browser came out of a 500 year old artisanal Japanese crafting shop, where the browser recipes where handed down the family tree

With these kinds of things it's basically, I have no way to differentiate my product, so I'm gonna slap the country flag on it for good measure

You were probably fortunate to live in the better part of France :)

In many parts of France, simply displaying the French flag in front of your house is very dangerous, whereas it is perfectly normal for everywhere else.

Neither in Spain. Its quite provocative if you do

Not in software.

Most successful French startups move their HQ to US as soon as they can and claim they're a US company.

"Made in France" software is a shame and if you're targetting the global market (not just the French domestic market) no founder wants to advertise that.

Which is a shame because we have a lot of talented engineers in France, it's just that the biggest French software companies are frauds.

> Most successful French startups move their HQ to US as soon as they can

I'm pretty sure it is more a question of astonishing level of taxation and the difficulty to rise capital than national pride.

> "Made in France" software is a shame

Any source to back this? I've never read or heard anywhere that a piece of software sucks because it was made in France. I'm pretty sure most people don't care, and those who do (Frenchmen) take it positively.