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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm in Finland and it's always mildly weird when these country lists have "Aland Islands" right in the top. I'm not entirely sure in which circumstances the folks from Åland even pick that option. But, I mean, it's an autonomous region, they do have the right to mildly confuse the people who collect user statistics.

(There was also that one incident when some Google product wasn't available in EU as a whole due to regulations that had to be sorted out, but it was somehow available in Åland because Google did an oopsie.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago (1 children)

Also some places have option "Finland" and some have "Suomi" and it should never be "Suomi" unless it's a Finnish site IMO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

Also some sites ask for email addresses.

I give them my .fi address.

The sites then go "did you mean .fr?"

And I'm like "No actually I'm in Finland. It's a whole different country. Don't get me wrong, I love the French, great country. I love our EU brothers and sisters and enbypals. Just don't buy a nuclear reactor from them."