2026-05-15 07:07 UTC
The EU's Digital Markets Act is delivering real wins for consumers in the EU, and in some cases globally. Apple and Google are opening up functionality that was previously reserved for their own products.
But one glaring failure stands out: browser engines on iOS.
📖 Read: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/the-digital-markets-act-is-delivering-real-wins-but-not-yet-for-browser-engines/
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@owa@mastodon.social 2026-05-15 07:07
More than two years have passed since March 7, 2024, when Apple became legally obligated under Article 5(7) of the DMA to allow third-party browser engines, yet not a single browser vendor has successfully ported their own engine to iOS in the EU. 📖 Read: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/ 🧵(2/23)
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@bkoehn@hachyderm.io 2026-05-15 10:29
@owa@mastodon.social because it’s a solution that nobody actually wants, and nobody wants to build a solution to a problem that nobody has.
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@wojtek@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-15 14:25
@owa@mastodon.social @obrhoff@mastodon.social - just the other day we talked about this ..