If you're in the UK or do business in the UK, this is important 👇

On Tuesday, the CMA announced that Apple and Google have proposed app certainty and interoperable access commitments. Of particular interest to OWA was the interoperability requirements, as we have argued that the CMA should impose an equivalent to Article 6(7) of the DMA.

On Apple’s pinky promises to CMA brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-appl... (I've calmed down - a bit - after yesterdays grumpiness at Apple taking the absolute piss.)

> So if Apple denies your request to access AirDrop (or whatever) because allowing you to compete isn’t “in line with its commercial strategy and priorities”, that’s OK, according to commitments which the CMA thinks “could address our concerns”? 🤔 brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-appl...

[NL] "Het TOOI: een geheime politiedienst in Nederland waar je waarschijnlijk nog nooit van hebt gehoord. Maar als je weleens meedoet aan demonstraties of een XR-sticker op je koelkast hebt, dan bestaat de kans dat zij jou wél kennen." youtu.be/tz4cd4QN6Z8?...

Here's a quick HTML party trick. Do you know that you can overwrite a form's behavior with a button? You're welcome. 😅 www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

"The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy" I was waiting for this one. Michael Spicer is 👌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDH0...

"The web is an abstraction that holds the power to liberate our computing in-situ, removing superfluous gatekeepers from the loop an increasing fraction of the time [...] They know this, and that's why they're trying to keep the web from winning." infrequently.org/2026/01/nake...

"No AI Slop. Just Powerful Features." No AI, no crypto, no big tech. vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi...

Adam F's music is pretty much unavailable via streaming services (god knows why). It took me 20 yrs to find the albums Colours and KAOS, but now I have them. On CD. (And also safely backed up and available as lossless flac via my Plex server). 🤗

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LinkedIn removed De Correspondent's video about Donald Trump and blocked users from posting it ☹️

The Grok/Musk AI undressing scandal teaches us that Apple and Google's shameful app stores stand for nothing but profit, invalidating one of the 5 arguments they make to retain monopoly power to tax all software. But the other four arguments are bullshit, too: infrequently.org/2026/01/nake...

✅ Go to famously neutral Switzerland ✅ Give speech in German-speaking part of Switzerland ✅ Tell them they'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for the US 🎯 nailed it

Oh it's us, not you? www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

I wouldn't call this a showstopper, but boy does Safari find novel ways to break features they supposedly "support"...

Breaking: Google Appeals Final Judgment in DOJ Case Google is requesting a stay on certain provisions of the Final Judgment pending Google’s appeal of the Court’s liability and remedies rulings.

Yes! 🍾

Trump regeert als een corrupte tiran met een fascistisch draaiboek in de hand, zegt hoofdredacteur @robwijnberg.bsky.social. Wie dat overdreven vindt, is óf gevaarlijk ongeïnformeerd, óf gevaarlijk naïef. Meer video's mogelijk maken? Steun ons en word nu lid van De Correspondent: corr.es/1a11ae

"What was once our greatest and most important ally is now the most powerful and dangerous criminal organization in the world. Donald Trump rules as a corrupt tyrant with a fascist playbook in his hand. What is to be done?" decorrespondent.nl/16667/donald...

Liz Lopatto, firing on all cylinders. www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

De Correspondent is looking for a senior back-end developer! PHP / MySQL/ NoSQL / Amsterdam decorrespondent.homerun.co/senior-back-...

[NL] "Donald Trump regeert als een corrupte tiran met een fascistisch draaiboek in de hand. Wat te doen? In ieder geval: nú de Europese onafhankelijkheid vergroten alsof ons leven ervan afhangt. Dat doet het namelijk." decorrespondent.nl/16657/donald...

Some established browsers are betting their future on incorporating A.I., while A.I. companies are releasing browsers to slurp up your data even more. Here's Vivaldi's CEO @jon at Vivaldi's Reykjavík HQ announcing our 2026 roadmap.

[NL] "[Een] hypocriet mens is nog steeds beter dan een ‘eerlijke’ leugenaar, zoals Trump of Poetin. Imperfect recht is beter dan geen recht." decorrespondent.nl/16651/juist-...

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...

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Waitwhut? "Cognitive amplifiers"? Research has found that use of AI is making us think and question less. So... it's the opposite of a cognitive amplifier? www.theverge.com/news/852630/...

New year, new web performance mystery (and it's a huge one): calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/the-cur...

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"Your New Year's mission (if you choose to accept it): Tell one person about Vivaldi and that switching is easy." European, built-in tracking blocker, no Big Tech, no AI garbage. vivaldi.com/download/

"[...] stupidly, we have also settled on phone numbers as a means of authentication" I've never understood why WhatsApp decided to rely on phone numbers for auth (or, not even that long ago, a phone to do anything at all). arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

this Honey scandal is another great reminder that you should always be wary of installing browser extensions. They’re a huge privacy risk, especially if they have permission to read all your browsing behavior www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwB3...

Huge congrats to Apple, ACT/ The App Association (mostly funded by Apple), AWS, Google, Meta, Microsoft, who are named in The Hill's "Top lobbyists of 2025", along with other trusted brands like Philip Morris, ExxonMobil, Boeing, Occidental Petroleum, Lockheed Martin. thehill.com/homenews/563...

Picture in Picture works in Safari, but not in PWAs in iOS. It's almost as if Apple want to hobble PWAs just enough to make them unviable, but functional enough to hoodwink regulators that there is a distribution channel outside the App Store and the Apple Tax. bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...

If you read The Verge, you should subscribe. It's worth every penny (if only because Doing Things Costs Money, and The Verge deserves to keep Doing Things). www.theverge.com/bulletin/839...

Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...

I've spent months asking the CEOs of companies like Uber, Airbnb, Zocdoc and Taskrabbit what they will do when AI agents use their websites instead of real people -- but I was not expecting Amazon to fight back first and hardest. New Decoder on... THE DOORDASH PROBLEM www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Ck...

Well, spank me with a croissant while you sing Jacques Brel songs, it's only my post-Brussels trip Reading List 350! Wow sophisticated people at glamorous parties with your up-to-date knowledge of web standards, browsers and regulatory matters! brucelawson.co.uk/2025/reading...

So, so good

posted this 6 years ago and it’s still relevant

According to Apple, "the DMA has failed to live up to its promises" because it hasn't resulted in App Store price drops for consumers.

 www.macrumors.com/2025/11/12/d... 1/n 🧵👇

A couple of weeks ago at @perfnow.nl I gave a talk called "Fine-grained everything". It's about @svelte.dev (obviously), and the new frontiers of framework-land, but it's also about some stubborn misconceptions in web performance circles Gift link: conffab.com/presentation...

The Vergecast: "iPad just isn't the same as a mac", and all that. Then Nilay asks "What does a mac represent to you?" David: "Desktop-class browsers." Nilay: "You want Chrome! You want Chrome and Electron apps!" In other words: competing browser engines on i(Pad)OS. youtu.be/Br00gLOtB-c?...

🤩 There’s a very – VERY! – exciting animations/performance change available in Chrome Canary: Under the right conditions, `width`/`height` animations will no longer automatically force a Main Thread animation, but can be allowed to run on the Compositor.

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

[NL] Zaken doen met PvdA/GL? Nee, want "inhoud". Zakendoen met PVV en FVD? Hebben we al gedaan en/of sluiten we niet uit. decorrespondent.nl/16543/abortu...

Tim Berners-Lee on Apple’s WebKit monopoly brucelawson.co.uk/2025/tim-ber...

@timbl.bsky.social on Decoder with Nilay Patel: "[...] One of the arguments I've heard for why Apple will not allow other browser engines [on iOS] is that they can artificially restrict WebKit [...]" 🔥 pca.st/episode/248e... Via elk.zone/social.vival...