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    Yeah, anyone who dealt with German products outside of a few selected brands knows that quality had been nosediving for the past decade.

    Edit: also just checked. The statistic is provided by “Statista” who basically just scam people by aggregating statistics they take from other sources and then don’t disclose their sources unless you pay extra. Furthermore the statistic wasn’t repeated ever since, which makes it even more dubious as it should be trivial for a data aggregator to update such an index, unless the method and data are of low quality.

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      Edit: also just checked. The statistic is provided by “Statista” who basically just scam people by aggregating statistics they take from other sources and then don’t disclose their sources unless you pay extra.

      They block access for anyone visiting from a GDPR area. Which should really tell you all you need to know about how they treat data.