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:

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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.

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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. 👇 1/19

🚨 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:

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Break Google’s Search Monopoly without Breaking the Web - Open Web Advocacy

🌐 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. /1

Breaking: EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules

EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules – POLITICO

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. 🧵

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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 1/2

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. 👉

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"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."

DOJ’s break-up plan for Google risks collateral damage

Remedies should be refined with an eye toward broad platform rights and responsibilities