Browsers need to compete on merit, not via privileged placement within an operating system. It is genuine competition between browsers that delivers the best outcomes for consumers and developers. This change is one more step in the right direction.
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Finally, and perhaps most of all, we thank the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act team for its important precedent-setting work.
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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.
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Previously, even when users selected a different default browser, Chrome remained in this prominent position, steering users back toward Google’s own browser and undermining the user’s choice.
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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/
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Google Backs Down: Will Grant Hotseat in EU Browser Choice Screen - Open Web Advocacy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fsfe/116164762848263155
FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) just submitted to the UK regulator with this excellent submission!
🫵 and you should submit too by 5pm UK time today!
Simonetta Vezzoso
