So move out of the EU if you dont like the law. That is the level of logic you are using so leave and move to a different country. I hear Russia and China are great this time of year.
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Mozilla is 'Extremely Disappointed' With Implementation of Apple's EU Browser Engine Change
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I’d be surprised if any of this happens in the US. The takeaway is government regulations aren’t necessarily all great. The DMA being one of them. But that is imo.
I think they should and go back to their smallish roots. In fact American tech should leave the EU. Let the EU citizenry use yahoo.
Because web browser engines are a huge attack vector. Apple wants to control access as much as they can to keep it secure. They don’t make money on Safari.
Why don't they restrict browsers on macOS then?
Yet, people keep demanding more and more from their iPhone, inching it forward more and more into a computer. Apple probably hates this trend so they try to convince people they don’t need more, but that doesn’t work out.
A derivative of iPhone can probably work well for people like you who uses iPhone as appliances. A phone with almost every feature locked down (no, I don’t mean lockdown mode) and limited, which can be achieved today.
Or just turn macOS into a glorified ipad os.
Government must maintain their power to force company to do things against their will, such as enforcing a stricter environmental standard or public safety standard.
Last time I heard they still value their 150+ visa-free travel rights and “free” Medicare, among other perks.
At the end of the day that’s all people does, bark but no bite. Just for the record, I’m guilty of that too, but at least I voted with me and my family’s wallet and move to Australia.
And you'd know this how? Unless both browsers are running on the same hardware?
So naive it’s sweet.
No. This is all about money…
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Honestly if I was Apple I would have just left the EU market. Just shows government should stay out of business and have no idea how technology works lmao. I love this troll what Apple did.
Because you can build your own App Store in a browser yourself and have it install apps and games as extensions.
In terms of privacy, Firefox-based browsers have stronger fingerprint resistance and privacy features overall. To test browser fingerprintability, use a tool such as this, or this (from EFF). Compare a hardened Firefox-based browser such as Librewolf, Mullvad Browser or Tor Browser with WebKit- or Chromium-based browsers such as Safari or Brave, and you will see a clear difference in how much the browser reveals about your computer/phone, and indirectly about you as a user. Firefox-based browsers also have better add-on support, and more potent adblockers such as uBlock Origin. These can protect your privacy, along with making your browsing experience smoother and more pleasant.
In essence, Apple does not care about your privacy. Or rather, they care more about money than your privacy. They already forcefully push iCloud on iOS and MacOS to harvest users' documents, pictures and other data. Why would they care about solving browser fingerprintability on Safari if all they need is hot air to sway potential customers.
In terms of security, you are better off using Graphene OS (hardened Android) + a Google Pixel 8 Pro with memory tagging enabled, and a hardened Firefox-based webbrowser. You also get plenty of privacy features in that package.
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Personally, I don’t think Steve was after the money.
I can remember the MacOS keynote where he talked about making MacOS free but couldn’t because of legal issues, but he had the lawyers working on figuring it out. It went from what: 129 to 29 to free.
Steve was much more about the magic… but he also knew they needed money to make that magic happen.
Control of the end user experience, for one. Browsers running on other engines may result in worse battery life for iPhone users, for one.
It won´t happen. Neither Google nor Mozilla support much longer older operating systems. All the browsers for older MacOS versions are hacks, buggy, and slow.All we wanted is a way to extend the life of older iOS devices by allowing an updated browser when Apple abandons updating webkit. Not being forced to recycle perfectly good and powerful devices just because Apple says so because lack of browser updates.
To me, Apple actually just run like the Chinese government with its walls, secrecy and rules, and the attitude of “if you don’t like it then leave and don’t make money here”. And Apple itself is only afraid of this kind of government because overnight if you piss the government off you are out of here. Apple knows it so it’s behaving exactly the same because it’s the most powerful position to be in.
It’s always amusing to see that some hardcore apple supporters chanting the free market argument saying the companies should be able to do whatever they want while the company that they are supporting behaves the least “free market“. If Apple is a country, it’d run much more like China than the US.
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Apple is just doing the minimum to comply with EU regulations. Who would have thought. EU will probably need to extend the DMA, which will take some years again. So good for Apple.
I already felt the same a couple years ago with Apple’s strong fist on various issues while being overly secretive. Apple is a dictatorship inside US, and many people enjoy being managed and monitored by such dictatorship while also living in the so-called ”free country”, the irony.
Apple probably can build a city state like Vatican City in Rome, supported by all of those Apple stuff. It’s going to be a fascinating social experiment to witness and a paradise for some of those hardcore US Apple fans to live in.
It won’t though. Because previously the app ecosystem is all but parallel, aside specific apps for each device. Now the browser, as is the example we’re talking about, will be fundamentally different on each device. That’s one of several things that they’re doing by not implementing the changes across both devices. They don’t ’have to’ but by not doing it they’re fracturing their own clean system.
I mean… what?
This is great, Apple have been told to do this stuff, but if they make it hard and a pain to do then people probably won't bother and we can get back to normal without any of this 3rd party App Store/browser crap!