The issue Microsoft’s deceptive tacticsimpede consumer choiceFor years, Microsoft has manipulated desktop browser choice, using deceptive tactics to push Edge onto users. Instead of competing on quality, it relies on forced resets, misleading prompts, and hidden settings to trap people into using its browser. Every time Microsoft forces, pushes or…
Can browser choice screens be effective?
Innovative new research from Mozilla shows that design is critical Browser choice screens are back on the menu. Most notably, the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) will require them from ...
The Browser Choice Alliance
The Browser Choice Alliance is a coalition of browsers dedicated to the principle that consumers should have the right to use their browser of choice on Windows devices.
This ‘Privacy Browser’ Has Dangerous Hidden Features
The Universe Browser is believed to have been downloaded millions of times. But researchers say it behaves like malware and has links to Asia’s booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks.
Where Browsers Come From
In this post, I’ll talk about the evolution of the economics around browsers, and what we should think about as we move forward.
Why Browsers Get Built - Infrequently Noted
There are only two-and-a-half reasons to build a browser, and they couldn't be more different in intent and outcome, even when they look superficially similar.
SLAP and FLOP: Apple's Lack of Full Site Isolation and iOS Browser Ban Puts Users at Risk - Open Web Advocacy
TL:DR; Yet again Apple’s ban on third-party browser engines weakens security rather than strengthens it.
Quiche Browser — Beautifully customizable web browser
An independent, private, and transparent browser built by a passionate maker. Thoughtfully designed customization options and quality-of-life improvements without sacrificing ease of use. Established browsers can’t compare.
Web Browsers, AI, and the Politics of Media Power
The left keeps building media strategies on top of platforms built to undermine them. As browsers are rebuilt for mass surveillance and manipulation, the systems that decide what people see and who gets heard are being rewritten without us. Control over the browser is control over political reality.
Forget the Fate of Chrome, Focus on the Fate of the Browser
In debating what undoubtedly won't happen, we're looking past some key things that are -- and might...
Now Even Early Alpha Browsers offer the same experience as Dia
30 votes, 11 comments. 12K subscribers in the diabrowser community. An entirely new environment built on top of a web browser by The Browser Company…
How One 1990s Browser Decision Created Big Tech’s Data Monopolies (And How We Might Finally Fix It) - Above the Law
From the take-back-control dept
Who Wins The Browser Wars?
Impressions from my time with Perplexity’s Comet and The Browser Company’s Dia
Is This Really the Chrome Killer?
Is This Really the Chrome Killer?
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-backs-down--will-… 🧵👇 (1/7)
Google Backs Down: Will Grant Hotseat in EU Browser Choice Screen - Open Web Advocacy
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