日本のスマホ新法は、Appleに、ブラウザベンダーが日本で独自のブラウザエンジンを使うことを認めるよう義務付けています。 しかしAppleは、過去21ヶ月にわたり欧州デジタル市場法の同条項の遵守を事実上避けるために用いてきた方法を使うつもりのようです。 詳しくはこちら: open-web-advocacy.org/ja/blog/how_... 具体的には、Appleは独自エンジンを使いたいブラウザベンダーに対し、既存アプリの更新として提供することを認めず、既存の日本ユーザーを引き継がない全く新しいアプリとして提供することを求めています。

OWA's 2025 in Review! A huge and special thank-you to all of our volunteers and donors. We can't wait to see what we can do together in 2026! open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-202...

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and HTML, has expressed support for compelling Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS. He also states that having a powerful browser on iOS would "change the dynamic" with respect to web app's viability on mobile. 1/4

The 🇬🇧UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially designated Apple as having Strategic Market Status (SMS). After four years investigating Apple’s restrictions on browser engines and web apps, the CMA now has statutory authority to enforce a code of conduct. 1/12

Reason: Push is only half of whats needed. Web Push is gated behind install. Install for native is easy, for web apps it's hidden to the point developers are forced to build native apps, the very developers that would be using web push. Missing lots of features. webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/we...

Safari bugs don't just make Safari worse, they make EVERY OTHER BROWSER on iOS worse. #AppleBrowserBan

One of my jobs on Chrome is quantifying overall product quality signals. This quarter we're taking a hit on crashes entirely due to iOS, which looks to be primarily due to WebKit and iOS bugs. When I try to check on the status of the current major one (bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...), I get this:

Last week, OWA spoke at the 🇪🇺EU Parliament’s Digital Markets Act Working Group on Apple’s ongoing non-compliance with the DMA and why the open web is vital for Europe’s digital future. 🔗 Read our full speech: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-at-... 1/4

Apple's playbook is the same as Big Oil's: delay is winning. It's good the EU didn't give away its power to regulate like a common Chuck Schumer, but Apple is brazenly violating the DMA to deny EU citizens real browser choice because it threatens the App Store: infrequently.org/2025/09/appl...

"so, um, this law you passed...yes, we know we're not complying, and, well, you see, it's *inconvenient* that we keep getting caught trying to mislead you. Could you scrap it? Cheers." -- Cupertino www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Apple's Assault on Standards: Alex Russell dives deep into Apple's decade of harm and sabotage of the web and web standards. infrequently.org/2025/09/appl...

Perplexity just offered $34.5B to buy Chrome! 🚨The big question: without a legal obligation, will they fund the web platform that the world relies on at anywhere near Google’s ~$1B/year level? Our answer: probably not. New OWA Article: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/can-per... 🧵 Let's break it down

The Register covers 🇯🇵 Japan's new law: "Apple now faces challenges to its WebKit browser requirement in three jurisdictions, as authorities around the globe try to jumpstart competition in the mobile software industry." –The Register 🔗Read all about it here www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/a... /1

Japan 🇯🇵 has officially banned Apple’s iOS browser engine restrictions. Starting Dec 2025, iPhones must allow real Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and others to run their own engines, just like on desktop. /1 open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-a...

Apple's antipathy towards the web, and the success of web developers, could not be deeper. It's only matched by their functional suppression of the web on iOS. If you build for the web for a living, take note.

Bruce Lawson's summary of the UK's preliminary designation decision, check it out: 🔥 "why the CMA does not aim to create a default interoperability requirement is beyond my small brain to fathom. I’ll be raising it in my response to the consultation" brucelawson.co.uk/2025/cma-des...

The 🇬🇧 UK regulator has provisionally found that Apple and Google meet the threshold for Strategic Market Status (SMS) under the DMCC. In Apple’s case, the decision highlights its ban on competing browser engines and its actions to suppress competition from web apps.

Austria’s Der Standard highlights our coverage of Apple’s ongoing barriers preventing browser vendors from finally porting their engines to iOS. The headline says it all: "Apple and the merely theoretical browser freedom on the iPhone" www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/...

Now 🔥AppleInsider covers the #AppleBrowserBan "Apple has created a program that lets third-party browser engines come to iOS, yet keeps security and privacy in mind. "And for whatever reason, they've chosen not to do so." - Apple appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

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 📺 Watch the video open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-... 🧵Let's Dive In

🔥Now 9to5Mac quotes OWA: "Apple claimed it didn’t know why no browser vendor has ported their engine to iOS over the past 15 months. But the reality is Apple knows exactly what the barriers are, and has chosen not to remove them." 👉 9to5mac.com/2025/07/14/a...

🔥 The Verge just covered our fight to open up iOS to real browser competition. 🚫Apple’s Browser Engine ban blocks the real alternatives 📖 Read what The Verge had to say: www.theverge.com/news/706569/...

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 📺 Watch the video open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-... 🧵Let's Dive In

🚀 OWA volunteer James Heppell shares his experience representing us at the Apple & Google DMA workshop. His personal take, now #1 on Hacker News, offers sharp insight into gatekeepers' approach to the law. Check it out: formularsumo.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

iOS automatically placing the selected choice screen browser on the dock doubled Firefox' daily active users & further increased DuckDuckGo's app retention by a factor 9. Why isn't Android required to do the same in the EU? Agree with @open-web-advocacy.org open-web-advocacy.org/blog/googles...

Google's Hotseat Hypocrisy 🫤 To comply with the Digital Markets Act, Apple puts the user’s chosen browser in the hotseat. Google refuses to do the same on Android, leaving Chrome in the hotseat and undermining user choice. That’s not DMA compliance! open-web-advocacy.org/blog/googles... 1/9

Google's Hotseat Hypocrisy 🫤 To comply with the Digital Markets Act, Apple puts the user’s chosen browser in the hotseat. Google refuses to do the same on Android, leaving Chrome in the hotseat and undermining user choice. That’s not DMA compliance! open-web-advocacy.org/blog/googles... 1/9

Big Tech loves covert technical wheezes to block challengers At Apple's Digital Markets Act hearing yesterday, Open Web Advocacy revealed the app store marks competing browsers as 17yrs+ while its own #Safari is exempted and can be used by 'minors' But sure. Duopoly is where "innovation" happens.

Open Web Advocacy is on the ground at the European Commission's 2025 DMA workshop 🇪🇺, pushing hard for real browser competition, web apps and a free & open web. Stay tuned for updates!

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

Alex Moore from Open Web Advocacy joins Joe on Late Night Linux to unpack the DOJ’s case against Google, what’s promising, what’s risky, and why protecting web and platform funding is critical for the open internet. 🎧 latenightlinux.com/late-night-l...

🚨 New Article: Industry Voices Caution Against DOJ’s Plan to Force Sale Of Chrome ⭐️We support the DOJ’s goal of ending Google’s monopoly⭐️ but we along with many voices from across the tech industry are concerned about collateral damage to the web Read: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/industr... 🧵(1/7)

New Article: Is It Worth Killing Mozilla to Shave Off Less Than 1% From Google’s Market Share? 🚨 The DOJ is seeking to cancel all of Google's revenue-sharing deals with browser vendors. 🧵 (1/7)

If there is a sale of Chrome, the buyer should be required to spend at least 25% of their revenue on the core browser engine and standards development. Browsers are enormously profitable, but a new owner might try to run things for the short term.

🚨 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: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/break-g... /1

Breaking: EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...

Amazing library which demonstrates that it is possible to make high-fidelity UIs on the mobile web.

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. 🧵 open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-regu...

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. 🧵 open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-regu...

Competition and the fear of losing market share are powerful forces for improving security, but for browsers on iOS, they have been entirely nullified via Apple's browser ban: 👉 open-web-advocacy.org/blog/slap-an...

New security exploits in Apple's chips further underscore how Apple's ban on third-party browser engines weakens rather than strengthens security 👉 See why: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/slap-an...

Open Web Advocacy has joined forces with industry associations, civil society organizations, and businesses to call on the European Commission to take urgent and decisive action in enforcing the Digital Markets Act. Read why here: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/digital...

BREAKING: 🇬🇧UK’s competition regulator launches investigations into if Apple and Google have strategic market status in mobile ecosystems, including operating systems, app stores and mobile browsers. 1/8

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 1/3

OWA's 2024 in Review! A huge and special thank-you to all of our volunteers and donors. We can't wait to see what we can do together in 2025! open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-202...

Listen to OWA's Alex Moore, @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat about the Google Antitrust case's remedies and what they could mean for the web! www.igalia.com/chats/alex-o...

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. 👉 birchtree.me/blog/everyon...

"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." www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/d...

The Browser Choice Alliance launches today, championing consumer rights around desktop browser choice and respect for default settings; values that strongly align with OWA's mission. browserchoicealliance.org

🎉The UK Competition and Markets Authority (regulator) appears to formally agree to phase-out third-party cookies from Chrome web browsers (seen as 'reasonable'). On Apple's iOS/iPhone/iPads. Great day for competition and privacy! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67406f...