Yash Ghelani

Your OS has no business interfering with your browser choice. Learn more: bit.ly/4vhHDs0

I'm not saying Safari is the new IE6; that would be unfair...to IE 6. It was world-beating, but got long in the tooth. No, Safari now is more like IE 7-11: predictably disappointing thanks to under-funding by a company holding back the web back to defend profits: infrequently.org/2026/07/abject-p…

Apple keeps Safari on a starvation budget and blocks potential competitors while skimming *tens of billions* in profit per year from developer pain and user inconvenience. The result is a buggier, slower web. You do not have to hand it to them: infrequently.org/2026/07/abject-p…

About time we all realise this.

Hint: vivaldi.com/blog/how-can...

Perplexity? Nope. Nope. Nope.

India withdraws draft Digital Competition Bill after opposition from Big Tech & domestic platforms. Govt to launch a market study before redrafting, likely dropping ex-ante rules, revising gatekeeper thresholds to balance regulation with innovation. www.financialexpress.com/business/ind...

For a detailed breakdown of the MSCA and what it means for browser competition: /5 open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-a...

The act also forces Apple (and Google) to offer equivalent API access to third-party browser vendors, similar to Article 6(7) of the EU DMA. /4

This matters as Apple is still blocking rival browser engines in the 🇪🇺 EU, despite the DMA: /3 open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-...

Apple will no longer be allowed to impose technical or financial barriers that effectively block third-party browser engines on iOS. /2

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...

Pressure to let the web fairly compete on iOS is growing around the world: brucelawson.co.uk/2025/cma-des... ...but Apple is not on the level. Will be a slog against obfuscation and lies, and we are all lucky to have @open-web-advocacy.org in the fight: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-...

Super interesting. Still a long way to go, but looking forward to CSS masonry becoming Baseline.

Update: We're launching a monthly newsletter! Why? To share how the browser market is evolving, keep tabs on Microsoft’s deceptive behavior, and translate what it means for users, developers, and the digital ecosystem as a whole. Subscribe to stay in the know: bit.ly/46gImAU

📖 Read more: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-regu...

👉If the UK government is serious about supporting business, it must back the CMA in enforcing pro-competition rules decisively, especially when those rules are essential to giving startups and smaller companies a fair shot at innovation and growth.

Functionality limitations in web apps stem from Apple’s own restrictions on web browsers, undermining their ability to compete with native apps.

No Browser Engine Competition on iOS

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.

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...

🚀 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...

👉 Read all the details here: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-... 📺 Watch the video

“And for whatever reason, they have chosen not to do so.” This is simply false.

We asked Apple: 💬The DMA has been in force for 15 months. No browser vendor has ported their engine to iOS. Not because they can’t, but because Apple’s rules make it nearly impossible. Why is Apple insisting vendors lose their existing EU users? (abbreviated) Apple’s reply?

The DMA has been in force for over 15 months. Not one browser with its own engine has made it to iOS. Not because they can’t. Because Apple won’t let them.

Apple could solve this today. They could let browser vendors ship two versions of the same app, one for the EU, one for the rest of the world, under the same bundle ID. Apple just refuses.

One barrier stands out most of all, Apple won’t let browsers update their current app to use their own engine in the EU. Instead, they must publish a brand new app and rebuild their user base from scratch

So what’s standing in the way? 🚫 Apple forces browsers to abandon all current EU user 🧪 No way to test EU browser features for global devs ✈️ No clarity on updates for EU users who travel 📄 One-sided legal terms and contracts

This lets Apple control what web apps can do, and stops them from threatening the App Store. No other gatekeeper does this. Only Apple bans competing browser engines. ⚠️Vendors want to ship their REAL browser to iOS, not be forced to produce a separate one with Safari's engine.

Safari brings Apple around $20 billion a year from Google search engine revenue. For every 1% of browser market share it loses, Apple stands to lose $200 million a year. To protect that revenue, Apple stops competing browsers from offering full-featured alternatives.

Apple at the workshop claimed it didn’t understand why no browser vendor has shipped their engine on iOS but the truth is simple: Apple created the barriers and has refused to remove them. The reason is money 💰

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

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Taken on 15 July, 2023. #FungiFriends

Feel the same. I loved em dashes long before LLMs started loving them more.

Stunningly incredible UI work!

Personal opinion: I find in-app-browsers to be the ABSOLUTE WORST design idea ever! Ever! Hate them!

We dive in here: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/googles... 9/9

We stand with the smaller browser vendors who have raised concerns. Google’s refusal to implement a comparable measure on Android undermines the intent of the DMA. We urge the European Commission to intervene and compel Google to comply through enforcement action. 8/9

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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

Up the kriek: Apple gets punchy in Brussels DMA compliance workshop - my detailed notes (with quotes!) from Monday's AppleFest brucelawson.co.uk/2025/up-the-...

Apple complains that the EU doesn't talk with 3rd party "security experts", but doesn't say with whom it consults when it decides to deny an interoperability requests for "security reasons".

"And, for transparency, we publish those requests as a static PDF hidden behind an Apple Developer login. We're so transparent, our entire new UI is see-through! So don't tell us how to behave in your jurisdiction, European Commission."