Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France.
You’re telling me that anticompetitive practices stifle competition?
For real though, this is great news. Glad the EU finally got apple to open things up a bit, even if it’s only in the EU.
after Apple started letting users choose their default browsers on iOS 17.4 in the EU last week.
Lol, srsly, why does anyone use apple devices willingly. Like for work I sorta get it if there’s no alternative but it really took government action to compell this extremely basic customisation.
In the US at least, sadly, it’s imessage. It’s a weird social thing - if you have “green bubbles” people really look down on you.
It’s dumb and superficial, but it works.
The solution to green bubbles? Use Signal, which has blue bubbles across all platforms.
In the US
It’s dumb and superficial
Yeah, as the majority of the time, regulations work!
Now apply the DMA to Microsoft and Windows so they stop changing the default to Edge every 2 days
Has that actually happened? You sure you didn’t click some “I agree” button after an update?
Windows has never set a new default browser for me without asking. Sure, it asked a few times, but unless I agreed, no settings were changed.
I believe, the behaviour is different, depending on where you’re from. In the EU, Microsoft is comparatively well-behaved. In the US, they’re extra icky.
I’m in the US and that has never happened to me, and neither has a lot of the other wild shit people claim microsoft does every day.
