OK, thanks for your feedback. And I am not taking it as a personal attack - no worries. I am writing this and the reply before, completely on my own - without any help of LLM or other tools :-) It may be the English that I am used to apply from my normal work in business! Have a good one!
Yes, indeed. I received similar feedback from others as well. I believe you are fully correct. I actually used LLM to review my comments/posts. I got your point and fully agree with you. I will make sure, that in moving forward I will only use LLM to a strict minimum and keep my own personal language (as non-English-native speaker ;-)). Thank you very much for this, trolske!
Hi asudox. No, I am not an LLM. But I did use LLM for reviewing my posts (especially because I am not English-native speaker). But I fully get your point and I will make sure moving forward to keep the LLM review to a strict minimum, and will put more focus on my own, natural language :) Thanks a lot for pointing it out to me! Much appreciated.
not a bad idea :-)
Thanks, glad it is useful. Honestly there is no story. It just sounded decent to me and the domain was free. The one deliberate part was that it had to mean nothing in particular. The site runs in English, German and French, so an obvious name like buyeu or madeineurope would have read fine to English speakers and clumsy to everyone else. A word that means nothing is at least equally neutral in all three.
If you do, the hardest part is deciding what counts. Owned in Europe, founded in Europe and manufactured in Europe give you three very different lists, and a lot of brands only make it into one of them. I settled on production location as the only thing that decides a listing, and put ownership on the page as a separate fact, because people kept reading one as the other. Everything I have is public with the source on each entry, so lift whatever is useful.
Fair, and I don’t want the list read as an endorsement.
browle answers one narrow question — where is this actually manufactured — and deliberately doesn’t rank companies on ethics, because that’s a judgement you’d want to make yourself and we’d almost certainly draw the lines differently. Nespresso is in there because the manufacturing claim is unusually verifiable, not because I think Nestlé is a good corporate citizen. The baby-formula history and the water extraction are real and well documented.
“Made here” and “behaves well” are separate axes, and a directory that quietly merged them would be doing the same thing I’m complaining about with “designed in”.
You’re right, and thanks for catching it — I’ve fixed it rather than argue about it.
What was happening: browle’s own code has no GTM and no analytics cookies (PostHog, EU-hosted, cookieless, no person profiles). But the newsletter signup form was a beehiiv embed sitting on every page, and inside that iframe beehiiv loads googletagmanager.com/gtm.js (container GTM-WJXL7FH) plus a PerimeterX script and Google Fonts, with a __cf_bm cookie on top. So “no tracking” was false for anyone who loaded any page, whether or not they cared about the newsletter. My mistake was treating “we don’t add trackers” and “no trackers load” as the same sentence.
As of today the form only loads when you click the subscribe button. On a normal page view nothing loads from beehiiv or Google at all — the one remaining external request is EU-hosted PostHog, which the privacy page has always described. That page now also names GTM, PerimeterX and the __cf_bm cookie outright instead of leaving them undisclosed: https://browle.com/en/privacy
If you check again and something still fires that shouldn’t, tell me and I’ll fix that too.
Hey huppakee. Thanks for your feedback. I like your suggestion about using llm to practice my English skills. I will most probably try to do so. I believe it could be quite more efficient rather than using those common apps like babble or dualingo, because it the LLM can be told to be super-specific to me! As to browle.com: yes, I have been using LLM quite a lot to do the research - as you can see I am now at more than 900 brands that were analysed. I could not have done this research without LLM actually. But, I set the rules, the boundaries- therefore it acts on my behalf. My personal motivation on browle is actually to make us all more aware about our decisions when we buy something. My personal opinion: Europe is a great place to live and to work. We should be proud about what we are, what we do and what we stand for. When I break a small part of this down to “my personal buy behaviour” I try as much as possible to favour EU made products.