Open Web Advocacy

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2026-03-26 08:36:03 UTC

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/
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2026-03-23 08:57:33 UTC

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More than two years have passed since March 7, 2024, when Apple became legally obligated under 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.
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

2026-03-23 08:57:19 UTC

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2026-03-23 08:56:49 UTC

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2026-03-23 08:56:15 UTC

Alex Moore (Executive Director of OWA) and John Ozbay (CEO and Founder of Cryptee) were recently interviewed by Simonetta Vezzoso, a European academic specializing in digital competition law and the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Check it out:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/question-and-answer-with-simonetta-vezzoso--the-open-web--apple-and-the-dma/
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2026-03-12 08:33:00 UTC

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/
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2026-02-25 08:42:30 UTC

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/
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2026-02-13 09:30:46 UTC

On Tuesday, the CMA announced that Apple and Google have proposed app certainty and interoperable access commitments. Of particular interest to OWA was the interoperability requirements, as we have argued that the CMA should impose an equivalent to Article 6(7) of the DMA.
While it's good that the CMA has chosen to include interoperability requirements, the requirements that Apple has laid out are simply too weak to possibly be effective.

2026-01-05 23:31:43 UTC

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Japan’s new Smartphone act requires that Apple allow browser vendors to use their own engines in Japan. However, Apple looks set to use the same tactic it has used in the EU to avoid complying with the same provision of the Digital Markets Act for the last twenty-one months.
Read our full analysis here:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/how_apples_key_tactic_could_prevent_japans_smartphone_act_from_improving_browser_competition/
Namely, Apple demands that browser vendors lose all their existing Japanese users and produce a brand new browser, rather than simply updating their existing users.

2026-01-05 23:30:51 UTC

日本のスマホ新法は、Appleに、ブラウザベンダーが日本で独自のブラウザエンジンを使うことを認めるよう義務付けています。
しかしAppleは、過去21ヶ月にわたり欧州デジタル市場法の同条項の遵守を事実上避けるために用いてきた方法を使うつもりのようです。
詳しくはこちら:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/ja/blog/how_apples_key_tactic_could_prevent_japans_smartphone_act_from_improving_browser_competition/
具体的には、Appleは独自エンジンを使いたいブラウザベンダーに対し、既存アプリの更新として提供することを認めず、既存の日本ユーザーを引き継がない全く新しいアプリとして提供することを求めています。
また、Appleは、iPadOS等のiOS派生OSにおいて、独自エンジンを使用することを認めていません。

2025-11-04 08:18:20 UTC

The 🇬🇧UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially designated Apple as having Strategic Market Status (SMS). After four years investigating Apple’s restrictions on browser engines and web apps, the CMA now has statutory authority to enforce a code of conduct.
Read our full analysis here:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/what-apples-uk-strategic-market-status-designation-means-for-browsers-and-web-apps/
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2025-08-06 07:21:17 UTC

🇯🇵 Japan has officially banned Apple’s iOS browser engine restrictions.
Starting Dec 2025, iPhones must allow real Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and others to run their own engines, just like on desktop.
This is a major step forward for browser competition.
Full analysis here:
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https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-apple-must-lift-engine-ban-by-december/

2025-07-14 09:51:36 UTC

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🙏

2025-07-14 06:48:11 UTC

New OWA Report: Apple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA.
Despite big claims at the recent DMA workshops, Apple continues to block competing browser engines on iOS in the EU.
👉 Read the details: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma
📺 Watch the video
🧵Let's Dive In

2025-07-04 07:08:29 UTC

Google's Hotseat Hypocrisy 🫤 On iOS to comply with the Digital Markets Act, Apple puts the user’s chosen browser in the hotseat/dock. Google refuses to do the same on Android, leaving Chrome in the hotseat and undermining user choice.
That’s not DMA compliance!
Read our detailed analysis and see us ask Google directly at the EU DMA Workshop for Google.
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/googles-hotseat-hypocrisy/
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2025-06-23 07:18:02 UTC

Regulators around the world are tackling mobile platform monopolies.
But every time new laws like the EU’s DMA or the UK’s DMCC emerge to allow more competition, Apple and Google raise one predictable objection:
“Security”
Let’s unpack why that doesn’t hold up.
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2025-04-23 13:08:22 UTC

🚨 NEW: The DOJ wants to break up Chrome from Google — the consequences could be catastrophic for the web.
📖 Read our article: Break Google's search monopoly without breaking the web.
Link: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/break-googles-search-monopoly-without-breaking-the-web/
🌐 The DOJ wants to force Google to sell Chrome and ban search engine revenue share deals. Sounds good, right?
🌐 But here’s the part no one is talking about
🌐 These two remedies alone could collapse the web’s funding model, triggering a 70% drop in investment.
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2025-04-23 09:51:08 UTC

Breaking: EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-fines-apple-meta-breaking-europe-digital-markets-act-dma/

2025-03-21 08:15:33 UTC

1/10 🚨 The 🇬🇧UK regulator’s final report is out and it’s clear: Apple’s browser engine ban harms competition.
Forcing all iOS browsers to use WebKit hurts developers, users, and the web itself.
Change is coming. 🧵
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-regulators-final-verdict--apples-browser-engine-ban-harms-competition/

2025-01-10 07:39:48 UTC

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ensure the web's long-term stability and longevity.
The precise funding commitments from each organization are yet to be disclosed, but considering the high costs of Chromium development, we hope they are of a meaningful scale.
Read More:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-launch-of-supporters-of-chromium-based-browsers
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2025-01-10 07:39:36 UTC

Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera have pledged their support for a new initiative under the Linux Foundation called the "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" development fund.
The fund aims to promote open development within the Chromium project. It is vital for the future of the web that Chromium's development moves beyond being predominantly funded by Google, fostering diverse contributions, enhancing trust, and reducing dependency on a single organization to
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2024-12-14 10:02:09 UTC

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Real competition will also force Apple to invest more

2024-12-14 10:00:53 UTC

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nothing. Apple has not allowed third party browsers to run web apps with their own engine. The only viable solution however is each home screen web app to run via its installing browser. The web apps data storage is unique to the browser it runs in, and at this time there is no feesible transfer mechanism the OS could implement between browsers and browser engines that would port all of cookies, session storage, localstorage, idb, WebSQL, cache, opfs etc.

2024-12-14 09:51:39 UTC

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but not really possible. We still have 4 critical blockers to this day: https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-dma-review/

2024-12-07 14:14:39 UTC

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This may have been true a year ago, but the reality is it doesn’t actually matter, since energy efficiency can be a point of competition between browsers. The real issue is Apple likes to give a laundry list of excuses to regulators of why they have to exclude third party browsers on iOS including battery life.

2024-12-07 10:46:08 UTC

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probably. We do need to identify if there any gaps, and it’s important macOS, edge and all iOS varienrs are covered

2024-12-07 00:13:29 UTC

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the author of the article only tested chrome it looks like it. To be honest all modern browsers have pretty good battery life, the only here is Apple is trying to use it as an excuse to exclude the other browsers from iOS

2024-12-06 22:47:46 UTC

Apple claims that it forces Webkit to protect user's battery life. Turns out chrome/chromium has a better battery life.
Apple has a long list of excuses as to why it has to push the web out from mobile.
👉 https://birchtree.me/blog/everyone-says-chrome-devastates-mac-battery-life-but-does-it-i-tested-for-36-hours-to-find-out/

2024-12-03 00:14:59 UTC

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guess what we’ve been reading all morning! :D

2024-11-26 11:07:24 UTC

"The US Justice Department's proposed remedies to address Google's monopoly control of the search services and search text advertising markets should be reconsidered in light of the broader problems with technology platforms."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/doj_google_collateral_damage_opinion/

2024-11-26 10:30:31 UTC

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Different orgs can have different focuses and priorities. Our current primary focus is to ensure that the web can compete on mobile and to ensure mobile web apps become viable, and BCA’s focus is on anti-competitive behavior on desktop.

2024-11-26 10:00:32 UTC

The Browser Choice Alliance launches today, championing consumer rights around desktop browser choice and respect for default settings; values that strongly align with OWA's mission.
https://browserchoicealliance.org/

2024-11-24 19:53:32 UTC

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Responses due by Friday 13th Of December, Final report to be delivered in Feb/March and then enforcement to be handed over to the Digital Markets Unit which is about to receive its legal powers
Still a lot of work to be done!

2024-11-22 13:50:58 UTC

Just released, the CMA's full 600 page report into Mobile Browsers:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67406fe502bf39539bdee865/Provisional_decision_report.pdf

2024-11-22 12:05:05 UTC

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You can see our response to the remedies here:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673f34a3b3f0df6d2ebaf05a/OWA_-_WP7_response.pdf

2024-11-22 12:03:06 UTC

Breaking, CMA Provisional Report Just Released:
"Apple’s rules appear to be holding back a category of apps known as ‘progressive web apps’ (PWAs) that are lower cost and easier for developers to build since they can run on any operating system"
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673f2d334ebce30ac7baf035/Summary_of_provisional_decision.pdf

2024-11-21 05:13:28 UTC

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Yes. This would be a terrible outcome.

2024-11-21 04:34:10 UTC

DOJ asks court for:
• Forced Sale of Chrome
• Ban on paying for search defaults
• Ban on revenue-sharing agreements
• Ban on Chrome & Google placement deals 🚨
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1062.1_1.pdf

2024-11-18 09:59:27 UTC

In case you missed it, Apple has been using age limits to unfairly discriminate against third party browsers:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/ios-age-restriction-blocks-all-browsers-except-safari-breaks-choice-screen/

2024-11-15 15:46:40 UTC

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as pragmatists, we’ll go where the audience is.

2024-11-15 15:44:14 UTC

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we’re here for browser competition and so that anyone can create capable web apps. Each platform is different and being able to customize the content for each channel outweighs any advantage of an automatic system.

2024-11-15 12:00:52 UTC

Breaking 🚨 iOS age restrictions block all browsers except Safari & breaks the EU choice screen! Apple's inconsistent and self-serving age-restrictions block competition.
It's time for a deep dive on the OWA blog:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/ios-age-restriction-blocks-all-browsers-except-safari-breaks-choice-screen/

2024-11-14 21:35:07 UTC

Very happy to announce, due to popular demand, that we are now also on Bluesky!
https://bsky.app/profile/open-web-advocacy.org/post/3lawqxgwczk2h

2024-10-29 11:18:28 UTC

Today the EU and UK conclude technical negotiations for a future competition cooperation agreement ⬇
🤝 The competition cooperation agreement will allow the EC, the EU NCAs and UK CMA to cooperate directly in competition investigations 🕵‍♀️
https://europa.eu/!h6K3Gm

2024-10-28 08:39:39 UTC

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/

2024-10-26 21:46:34 UTC

iOS and Android? Time for someone to do a web spec!
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/26/24280157/android-16-rich-ongoing-notifications-beta-code-iphone-ios-live-activities

2024-10-25 09:41:42 UTC

Apple's iOS 18.2 has implimented 6 of OWA's DMA compliance requests but Apple still has a long way to go to fully comply with the DMA and to allow fair and effective competition for the Web.
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-implements-six-of-owas-dma-compliance-requests/

2024-10-24 13:55:07 UTC

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There's nothing in here that says the web app will run on the alternative browser engine. It just says the callback will only run with alternative browser engines (which we read as having the alternative browser engine entitlement)

2024-10-24 13:27:59 UTC

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They're not allowed yet. See https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-dma-review/
Chromium web apps on iOS would be a vast improvement and is what will spur competition.
Read our original walled gardens report to find out why web apps under Apple has been a disaster for the last decade: https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/

2024-10-24 13:26:34 UTC

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No. It's unfeasible at the moment for any browser to ship because of Apple's terms and conditions, but we're working on it.
See:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-dma-review/

2024-10-24 13:25:34 UTC

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To us we can't see anything that indicates it supports web-apps using the third-party engines in the documentation.
The cookie copying stuff is one of the reasons, why would the browser need to copy it's own cookies?
Additionally there's nothing about settings, or custom setting per web app or how stuff about how to setup your browser to hook into Web.app

2024-10-24 12:01:16 UTC

9to5mac is reporting Apple will let third-party browsers add web apps to the iPhone Home Screen using their own custom engine. This is huge if true.
If anyone can confirm, let us know!
https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/23/ios-18-2-web-apps-browser-engine-in-the-eu/

2024-10-24 05:13:42 UTC

It's time for a fairer, more competitive app ecosystem. Enforcing the DMA is the quickest way to get there.
Together with many others, we urge MEPs of the ECON and IMCO Committees to hold the gatekeepers accountable for compliance with the DMA
Read More:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-time-for-a-fairer-more-competitive-app-ecosystem/

2024-10-10 08:03:36 UTC

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/

2024-10-08 06:56:57 UTC

Stuart Langridge delivers a spectacularly entertaining history lesson, poetry and delves into the origins of OWA and tells us what we can do to protect the future of the web!
If you have a spare 30 minutes, it's worth your time:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/stuart-langridge-the-mazy-web/

2024-10-07 08:37:46 UTC

OWA raised "body scroll issues" as a candidate for Interop 2025. The inability to block body scroll in mobile Safari makes it very difficult to build native-like applications and remains a very long standing issue.
Want to help, give it a 👍 in github.
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/788

2024-09-25 12:20:32 UTC

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If you have encountered major showstopping bugs in your web apps please get into contact with @npub13r3…y5h9 to get yours added to the list.

2024-09-25 12:20:05 UTC

Webventures: An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers
"iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers [..] frequent showstopping bugs, a large patch gap, and lack of competing engines ensures the web is not a credible competitor to native."
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/webventures-an-abridged-history-of-safari-showstoppers

2024-09-19 10:27:05 UTC

EU Commission has opened a proceeding into the process Apple has set up to address interoperability requests submitted by developers and third parties for iOS and iPadOS.
This is a specification proceeding to "assist Apple in complying with its interoperability obligations".
The EU commission states the process to address interoperability requests should be "transparent, timely, and fair".
See:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_4761

2024-09-19 06:02:51 UTC

For 7 years, Google has failed to keep its commitment to share the ability to install Web Apps with third-party browsers on Android. With regulatory intervention from the EU, Japan and the UK that may be changing.
Read about it here:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-must-share-the-ability-to-install-web-apps-in-android/

2024-09-07 12:11:08 UTC

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fixed already? it had been that way for 4 years. Apple only fixed it after significant pressure from us, media and presumably regulators.

2024-09-07 12:08:26 UTC

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Apple applies no competitive pressure on the web ecosystem, they don’t compete on windows, iOS or Android. They’ve almost certainly drained Firefox and other browsers billions of $ worth of revenue over the past decade.
Every other browser vendor would disagree with your assessment that Apple is contributing to browser diversity.

2024-09-07 10:42:07 UTC

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although the situation is many many times better on Android, don’t forget Google doesn’t allow any other browser than chrome to properly install web apps

2024-09-07 10:40:56 UTC

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this is another example of a terrible UI from Apple to make it difficult for users to switch browsers.
Safari makes Apple 20b USD per year, 14% of their net profit via Google search advertising. These sums of money are so insane Apple is heavily incentivized to prevent browser competition at all costs.

2024-09-07 10:38:51 UTC

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Explain how that could be a bug?
Every browser displays the default switcher but if the app is Safari and Safari is the default it doesn’t display.
This is almost certainly intentional code.

2024-09-06 16:16:13 UTC

“Apple told MacRumors that Open Web Advocacy's allegation that Apple is misleading the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is inaccurate”
“The design was apparently never intended to discourage users from setting third-party browsers as the default.”
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/06/apple-denies-evidence-of-hidden-settings/

2024-09-05 09:15:34 UTC

The Register: "Apple accused of hoodwinking UK antitrust cops"
Apple claims they aren't being anti-competitive, but there isn't really any plausible deniability for that UI decision, so that might explain why they are trying to pretend it never existed.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/05/apple_safari_uk_cma/

2024-09-04 18:29:42 UTC

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if you search for OWA or open web advocacy in the document you can see some other fun examples. Pity we don’t have unlimited time to critique Apple’s responses line by line.

2024-09-04 08:26:31 UTC

Breaking: Apple appears to mislead UK Regulator over deceptive default browser user interface
Read the full story:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-appears-to-mislead-uk-regulator-over-deceptive-default-browser-user-interface/

2024-08-28 07:55:52 UTC

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5. Direct Install for Browsers, No AppStore middle men controlling and taxing the web.
6. Google must give other browsers the ability to install Web Apps properly using WebAPKs. Google promised to do this 7 years ago, and never delivered. No more delays.
Write in today, if you have questions, please feel free to reach out on our discord, or email, or on X
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2024-08-28 07:55:37 UTC

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What needs improving?
1. Browser's need the ability to manage and install Web Apps with their own engine
2. We need install prompts in Safari or Web Apps won't be viable
3. API access for browser's needs to be stronger, strong enough to allow browsers to compete with native
4. Current and Future functionality can not be exclusive to Native Apps, Apple (and google) need to ensure browsers can offer equivalent functionality via the web.
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2024-08-28 07:55:11 UTC

Last chance to write to the UK regulator about Browsers and Web Apps 🚨 Due Thursday 29th August.
Your voice will make a difference❤️🌐
👇Write in, Share, See:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-browser-and-cloud-investigation-may-fail-to-allow-web-app-competition/
See Stuart’s submission https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2024/08/21/the-cma-wants-your-comments-on-web-apps/
Thomas’s: https://blog.tomayac.com/2024/08/26/my-response-to-the-cma/
Bruce’s: https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/web-apps-on-ios-is-the-cma-missing-the-point/
Alistair’s: https://alistairshepherd.uk/writing/cma-mobile-browsers-remedies/
Write in today!
1/n

2024-08-26 05:36:17 UTC

“Imagine if Chrome on iOS wasn’t just a rinky dink little Safari emulator!”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/24/24226946/iphone-eu-regulation-app-stores-fortnite

2024-08-25 09:14:32 UTC

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You can also see our original post: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-browser-and-cloud-investigation-may-fail-to-allow-web-app-competition/

2024-08-25 09:11:54 UTC

Our good friend Alistair Shepherd has written a very thoughtful response to the UK Regulator's investigation into mobile browsers. If you are concerned about Browser and Web App competition, please consider adding your voice before 29th of August.
https://alistairshepherd.uk/writing/cma-mobile-browsers-remedies/

2024-08-24 09:31:10 UTC

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You can (and should) still have input into the investigation. Read more about how to get involved:
Due before 29th August: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-browser-and-cloud-investigation-may-fail-to-allow-web-app-competition/

2024-08-24 09:30:43 UTC

El Reg dives into both Apple's browser choice changes in the EU and concerns the remedies that would enable Web App competition in the UK's Browsers and Cloud market investigation reference might not be malicious compliance proof.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/24/apple_eu_browser_defaults/

2024-08-23 07:41:23 UTC

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p.s. Don't forget to write to the UK regulator about Web Apps, only a few days left. You have until next Thursday (Aug 29th).
Read our summary here (1/3):
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-browser-and-cloud-investigation-may-fail-to-allow-web-app-competition/
or you can read Bruce's (2/3):
https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/web-apps-on-ios-is-the-cma-missing-the-point/
or Stuart's (3/3):
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2024/08/21/the-cma-wants-your-comments-on-web-apps/

2024-08-23 07:41:08 UTC

Breaking 🥳: Apple has adopted 6 of our 11 recommendations for choice screens and default settings for browsers + fixed two deceptive patterns we discovered.
Huge thanks to the DMA team and EC!
Read about the changes + what still needs to be fixed:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-adopts-6-owa-choice-architecture-recommendations/

2024-08-23 07:12:07 UTC

In a great post by Bruce Lawson, he goes into detail about why you should write to the UK regulator about Web Apps.
Without these remedies web apps might not be viable for years to come. The web needs your help by next Thursday (29th August)
Read:
https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/web-apps-on-ios-is-the-cma-missing-the-point/

2024-08-22 07:41:47 UTC

Great post from Stuart Langridge explaining why you should write into the UK regulator about Web Apps and Mobile Browsers. They are deciding on key remedies to improve competition and your voice is important and does matter.
Due: August 29!
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2024/08/21/the-cma-wants-your-comments-on-web-apps/

2024-08-20 07:03:51 UTC

UK's 🇬🇧 Browser and Cloud Investigation may fail to allow Web App competition.
🫵 Urgent: We need your help to save the web on mobile. Due: Thursday, 29th August.
Read/Share/Act: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-browser-and-cloud-investigation-may-fail-to-allow-web-app-competition/
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2024-08-09 05:15:30 UTC

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hotseat is the location in the dock that the default browser gets placed.

2024-08-08 12:10:32 UTC

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will look into it. It should have said see page 22 of the attached document as we’d hit the character limit

2024-08-08 12:09:41 UTC

@npub1jc7…z7al the position on the dock where the default browser is placed

2024-08-08 09:22:40 UTC

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https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66b484020808eaf43b50dea8/Working_paper_7_Potential_Remedies_8.8.24.pdf

2024-08-08 09:22:26 UTC

Breaking 🚨: UK regulator considering significant remedies inc #AppleBrowserBan, Choice Screens, Defaults, Hotseat, and In-App Browsers!
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2024-06-13 05:36:03 UTC

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/