The application destroys starts to be talked about. And for good reason: it is a yuka who tells you if the products bought at the supermarket are American. The objective of this application is obviously to participate in the anti-top and anti-United States boycott.
The Trump government policy is not to arrange the affairs of Europe and France. So much so that, as in Canada, boycott movements of American products are starting to form. If they are not as massive as in addition to Atlantic, They gradually appear. To support this movement, a French student launched you destroy yourself, which could be summed up in: ” Yuka of the Boycott Anti-United States ».
Scan a product: the app tells you if it is American
As with Yuka, destroying yourself allows you to scan any food product (in theory) and see if the company that markets it is American or belongs to an American company. It does not matter that the product is manufactured and marketed by a French company: if the group behind is American, the application will tell you. This is not the first time that such an application has existed; Already in 2016 during Trump’s first term, an application informed Internet users about American companies.
This is what we can read in the application: ” A company is considered American if it belongs to an American group. For example, Vahiné, a French company, is considered American because it is part of the McCormick group. On the other hand, if an American company does not belong to an American group, its product will not be classified as American. At the top right of the screen, there is even a counter that indicates how many American products have been scanned. What to realize the number of American products in our French supermarkets.
The application is available for free on iOS (via the App Store) and Android (via the Play Store or the APK file) in English and French. Its creator Sacha Montel, Data Science and Cybersecurity student at Télécom Paris, already claims more than 20,000 users. Still few downloads, but enough to be mentioned in a report by the American channel Cnn last week. Open Source, the application code is destroying you can be consulted on His GitHub page.
How does this Yuka Anti-States work
In theory, you can scan all the products of supermarkets, food or maintenance. That said, in the tests we have carried out, there are products that you destroy does not recognize, like the salt shakers of the La Baleine brand. Monoprix products are also not systematically recognized.
Questioned by NumeramaSacha Montel explains that to identify companies behind the products, destroy yourself is based on several collaborative and open source databases. Among them: Open Food Facts, Open Beauty Facts, Open Pet Food Facts and Open Product Facts. He specifies that ” These bases are very complete on food products, but still little provided for the rest such as technological or textile products ». Which is, for us, the point to improve on the app: in France, we find lots of American products in our clothes or our tools, technological or not, but ultimately not very little in our food as soon as we get out of the traditional Pepsico and Coca Cola Company.
However, each user can contribute to destroy yourself by adding the products that are not recognized: we bet that the application will gain in relevance in the coming months.
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