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Recently I was quite delighted to find out that galaxus.de has a "country of origin" filter. The delight quickly faded when I realized that it was quite unreliable, e.g. one size of a USB stick was made supposedly made in Germany while another was supposedly made in China (which I found quite unbelievable). To be fair, they do write "Specifications may include unverified machine translations."

Does anybody know of a (tech or other) online shop where this works? Or tipps how to quicker navigate real and fake/mistaken "country of origin" labels?

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[–] elvith@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

One could argue, that the majority of value is probably in the flash chips and/or flash controllers and as such the country of origin is probably always Taiwan (or another Asian state)