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  🎙️ Check out Bruce Lawson’s interview with Alex Moore, executive director and co-founder of Open Web Advocacy. They explore OWA’s history, why it exists, and what it’s fighting for: a better, more competitive web 🌐✊ https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/bruce-lawson-interviews-owa--for-a-better-web/

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  Safari 28.6% slower than Chromium on iOS. This is the tax every single user on iOS has to pay as a result of the #AppleBrowserBan https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/17/apples-webkit-performance-tax-leaves-ios-browsers-stuck-in-the-slow-lane-says-microsoft/5257384

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  “Microsoft engineers have published benchmark results showing that a Chromium-based browser using its own rendering engine scores 28.6% higher than Safari on Apple's own Speedometer 3.1 performance test on iOS” https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/17/webkit-rule-costs-ios-users-browser-performance/

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  Newly published tests show a Chromium/Blink engine running on iOS is 28.6% faster than Safari in Speedometer page responsiveness tests. 🏎️💨📱⚡️ This is a clear example of the costs Apple imposes on consumers and businesses worldwide, costs created by its 17-year ban on competing browser engines. 🧵👇️ (1/8) 📖Read more: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/28-percent-faster--the-blink-prototype-that-shows-why-apples-ios-browser-engine-ban-must-end/

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  "Apple’s claims for WebKit’s superior speed, privacy and security don’t stand up to scrutiny. It’s time for the regulators to strike down Apple’s restrictive terms and conditions, and compel Cupertino to fix BrowserEngineKit, so we can have genuine competition on iOS." 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more: https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/safari-blazing-fast-o-rly/

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  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/ 🧵👇️ (1/23)

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  In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy🪲🕵️ In-App Browsers hurt consumers, developers and damage the entire web ecosystem👎 👇Read our regulatory submission https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-browsers-the-worst-erosion-of-user-choice-you-havent-heard-of/

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  This is a step too far in the battle for market share. Manipulating the pages of your competitors is not fair game. Browser share should be won though user choice and merit.

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  The CMA is asking for feedback by March 3rd 5:00pm. We encourage companies and developers to write in: https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/proposed-commitments-from-apple-and-google-app-certainty-and-interoperable-access

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  We are grateful to BEUC, Mozilla, Vivaldi, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Brave for their valuable support in achieving this result. We would also like to thank OWA volunteers John Ozbay, Roderick Gadellaa and James Heppell who helped make this happen at the DMA workshops. 🧵(5/7)

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  Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and HTML, has expressed support for compelling Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS. He also states that having a powerful browser on iOS would "change the dynamic" with respect to web app's viability on mobile. 1/4 https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/tim-berners-lee-on-apples-browser-engine-ban-and-web-apps/

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  Bruce Lawson has a good rundown on the details: https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-apples-pinky-promises-to-cma/

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  🔥 "Capable browsers, and the PWAs they support, hold the power to grow an ecosystem of applications that no gatekeeper can own or tax, based on standardised APIs that resist enclosure. But few outlets are connecting these dots for readers." 📖 Read: https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

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  Interop 2025 must drop secret vetos! 🚨 The voting process for Interop proposals is done in secret and every browser vendor can veto any feature without any transparency. We need your help to change this and more. Read the article. Spread the word ❤️🌐 https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/interop-2025-must-drop-secret-vetos/

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  The State of HTML survey will close soon 🚨 It has an entire section on Web Apps & results are used for browser roadmaps! Tell them what you're missing, tell them what needs to be fixed e.g. Install Prompts, Wake Lock, Notifications or interop issues https://stateofhtml.com/

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  The #AppleBrowserBan has ended in Japan! 🇯🇵🎉🍾 We'd like to say a huge thank-you to the HDMC and the JFTC for helping ensure browsers can compete fairly, and so web apps can contest the gatekeeper's native app ecosystems. OWA is looking forward to helping contribute towards monitoring compliance and helping provide information for effective enforcement. Read More: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-ends-the-apple-browser-ban/

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  OWA NEW REPORT 🚨 Apple’s interoperability “commitments” in the UK 🇬🇧 are a smokescreen: 👉 No obligation to share anything 👉 Broad excuses to say no 👉 Fees for APIs 👉 No public transparency They can comply… and change nothing 😬 Bad for devs. Bad for users. OWA gives you the deep dive: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/our-submission-to-the-cma-on-apples-ios-interoperability-commitments/ 🧵👇️ (1/13)

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  In a significant win for smaller browsers, the open web, and the 🇪🇺EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Google has agreed to place the browser selected through the EU browser choice screen directly in the Pixel homescreen hotseat (replacing Chrome). https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-backs-down--will-grant-hotseat-in-eu-browser-choice-screen/ 🧵👇 (1/7)

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  In a significant win for smaller browsers, the open web, and the 🇪🇺EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Google has agreed to place the browser selected through the EU browser choice screen directly in the Pixel homescreen hotseat (replacing Chrome). https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-backs-down--will-grant-hotseat-in-eu-browser-choice-screen/ 🧵👇 (1/7)

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  ⚠️ WRITE TO THE UK'S CMA BY TUESDAY 5pm ⚠️ Under the current proposal, Apple can keep iOS and iPhone functionality exclusive to its own apps and services. If you want fair access to APIs for competing apps and browsers email 📧 mobilesms@cma.gov.uk See: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-interoperability-commitments-to-the-uk-cma-promise-nothing/ 🧵👇️ (1/5)

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  The UK's CMA says that developers need access to key iOS features to build innovative products and services, so UK consumers do not miss out but Apple’s proposed interoperability commitments are so weak they are essentially meaningless. Read the full analysis here: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-interoperability-commitments-to-the-uk-cma-promise-nothing/ 🧵👇 (1/10)