Proton CTO Bart Butler urges the 🇬🇧 UK to start enforcing competition laws against Big Tech before it's 'too late' 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more: www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

The Digital Markets Act was designed to move fast, but Politico’s reporting highlights how enforcement is being slowed by legal caution, limited resources, and the threat of litigation from Big Tech How well the DMA is enforced will have far-reaching consequences for the Web 🧵👇️ (1/10) 📖Read more:

The 🇺🇸U.S. District Court for New Jersey is appointing three special masters to DOJ vs Apple to assist with the discovery process. This case has important implications for ⚙️browser engines and 🌐web apps. www.courtlistener.com/docket/68362... 🧵👇️ (1/5)

Looksmaxxing is het gevaarlijke antwoord op de vraag: ben ik iets waard? decorrespondent.nl/16941/looksm... via @decorrespondent.nl

Whoop! Got my early-bird ticket for #perfnow 2026. HYPED 😀 perfnow.nl/tickets.html

Firefox now supports Web Serial on desktop 🦊 This means web apps can connect to compatible hardware devices such as microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware. Allowing the Web to do even more! 📖Read more: 🧵👇️ (1/11)

Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has been granted leave to intervene in Apple v. European Commission (T-359/25). Apple is seeking to annul a 2025 Commission decision imposing interoperability measures it must take to comply with Article 6(7) of the Digital Markets Act. 🧵👇️ (1/9) 📖Read more:

❓ A question for web developers ❓ If you do layout in CSS, what's missing? I'm especially interested in hearing about use cases that aren't yet solved by existing CSS layout features. #css #webdev

> Why is Google blowing up [Chromebook and ChromeOS] for this? I'm just speculating here, but the fact that Googlebooks were announced at Google's Android Show says a lot to me. The entire point *is* blowing it up - and replace it with Android's walled garden. Ugh www.theverge.com/report/92937...

"Apple’s latest iOS 26.5 update is bringing some AirPods and Apple Watch-exclusive features to third-party earbuds and wearables — but only for phones in the EU." 🧵👇️ (1/8) 📖Read more: www.techradar.com/phones/ios/i...

It is through this lens that we should assess whether Apple is genuinely concerned about security, or is simply using it as an excuse to block browser and browser engine competition on iOS. 🧵(5/7) open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-...

The choice screens are working! \o/

The EU's Digital Markets Act is delivering real wins for consumers in the EU, and in some cases globally. Apple and Google are opening up functionality that was previously reserved for their own products. But one glaring failure remains: browser engines on iOS. 🧵👇️ (1/23)

"I mourn the death of an art form" - This HN comment sounds cheesy, but it encapsulates perfectly how I feel about most stuff coming out now. If it's zero effort to do <thing>, then <thing> becomes worthless and uninteresting to me. Source: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4808...

I just realized that this is how Big Tech is ensuring we will all have to use their AI at some point: if we can't afford our own hardware because the RAM is too expensive, we'll have to talk to their computer instead of buying one. 😅 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

I was already careful when driving near Teslas (I've heard plenty "oh I can drink because the car will drive me home"-stories). I guess this means I have to be even more careful... (I live in the NL) www.theverge.com/transportati...

🔥 "Capable browsers, and the PWAs they support, hold the power to grow an ecosystem of applications that no gatekeeper can own or tax, based on standardised APIs that resist enclosure. But few outlets are connecting these dots for readers." 📖 Read: infrequently.org/2026/04/the-...

Almost as if "delay" is the entire goal... (For a monopolist, "delay" is "winning")

"What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

> "The browser, once the great universal platform, is increasingly being reduced to a top-of-funnel marketing channel for the App Store." www.0xsid.com/blog/wont-do...

Rather than the same old boring internet pranks, I thought I'd build something more fun this April Fools. CSS or BS. Can you tell your CSS properties names from BS? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs

I wonder what the browser perf folks think of that hot new pretext library that was released last week. It sure sounds cool, but throwing JS at a CSS/layout problem, coming from someone who worked on React, sounds... suspicious 😅 github.com/chenglou/pre...

Apple turned 50 years old yesterday. The web is full of reminiscences about Apple products and Saint Steve. I haven’t been an Apple user for as long as many have, so here are my five top Apple memories. brucelawson.co.uk/2026/apple-a...

We already have a platform that anyone can access from anywhere, is open and interoperable, and has proven it can give native (desktop) platforms a run for their money. But somehow everyone thinks "we need alternative app stores" instead of "we need to unlock the web" when it comes to mobile.

> Instead of prioritising the one, narrow intervention that can unlock the most impactful competition, regulators are gripped in alt store fever dreams; infrequently.org/2026/04/the-...

Boerderijen bezweken, muren spleten en schadevergoeding bleef te lang uit, zo is het verhaal in kranten en Kamerdebatten. Maar onder wetenschappers klinkt een ander geluid: voor een miljardencompensatie op deze schaal bestaat geen enkele basis.

OWA NEW REPORT 🚨 Apple’s interoperability “commitments” in the UK 🇬🇧 are a smokescreen: 👉 No obligation to share anything 👉 Broad excuses to say no 👉 Fees for APIs 👉 No public transparency They can comply… and change nothing 😬 Bad for devs. Bad for users. OWA gives you the deep dive: 🧵👇️ (1/13)

@davidpierce.xyz "in a one-to-one comparison, no Android app is better than the iOS app" Have you used Chrome? Like, at all? (Or any browser that is allowed to bring its own engine?) Maybe even a web app? 🤔😅

Imagine a world where you could just switch browsers instead of having to enable lockdown mode (and block web content) support.apple.com/en-us/126776 (To be fair, they have emergency patches going as far back as iOS 15, so most users should be covered)

[NL] "De manosphere doet grote beloften, maar houdt jongens klein. Wie verkoopt hun een andere definitie van succes?" decorrespondent.nl/16824/de-man...

Update required for anyone who is still on iOS 18 (and no, you're not safe because you use another browser, because all browsers on iOS are required by Apple to use the OS-provided WebKit engine) www.theverge.com/tech/896841/...

Apple and Google promoted insecure native apps as "safe" thanks to "beware of dog" signs posted in front of their poorly-tended walled gardens. It was enough to get everyone locked in, but never delivered security. Browsers, on the other hand, don't allow this sort of predation in the first place.

"The Power of 'No' in Internet Standards" www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02...

A wonderful overview of some of the pain folks are wading through to make good mobile UIs on the web today. We need to fix the Chromium/Android issues. Thanks to @zouhir.bsky.social for filing bugs. What's really shocking is the iOS situation; disgraceful. zouhir.org/blog/virtual-key…

Status: FIXED 👀 ```css @supports(at-rule(@foo)) { /* @foo is supported */ } ``` issues.chromium.org/issues/40211...

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/m... Includes grumpy quote from your totes megafave browserhunk. (ie., me.)

In a significant win for smaller browsers, the open web, and the 🇪🇺EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Google has agreed to place the browser selected through the EU browser choice screen directly in the Pixel homescreen hotseat (replacing Chrome). open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-... 🧵👇 (1/7)

Ons jubileumboek 'Waanzinnige tijden' is binnengekomen op nummer 1 in de Bestseller 60! 🎉 In deze selectie van onze beste verhalen laten 22 correspondenten zien hoe onafhankelijke journalistiek de nieuwe machten kan controleren en een betere toekomst kan verbeelden. Bestel hier: corr.es/5b78a5

Whoop! Got my #cssday ticket today! Hyped! (image via www.factorial.io/en/blog/my-f...)

If you live and/or do business in the UK, please take a minute and check this out - and if you agree that Apple's and Google's proposals are too weak (understatement), *please* write to the CMA and tell them.

Great video, must watch imho www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8K...

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...