One hundred days ago, Mozilla released Over The Edge 2.0, the second independent report from leading experts on deceptive design Dr. Harry Brignull and Cen

Instead, it became clear that Microsoft will respect user choice only when it is forced to. It is important to think about what that means for a company whose operating system runs on more than a billion machines. Microsoft’s standard for respecting people’s choices is legal compliance. Not what’s best for its users. Not its own published principles. Not what’s technically feasible. Not even what it already does for users in Europe.

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  2. Imagine following your own published principles
  • danA
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    2 days ago

    Meanwhile iphones don’t even allow an alternative browser.

    They allow other engines in the EU now, although it has to go through an approval process and there’s a bunch of requirements. https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines/

    Of course, because it’s Apple, they’re doing the bare minimum to comply with the law. Because the EU is the only jurisdiction that requires this, alternative browser apps have to be geogated so that only people in the EU can install them.