In a significant win for smaller browsers, the open web, and the 馃嚜馃嚭EU鈥檚 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).
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In a significant win for smaller browsers, the open web, and the 馃嚜馃嚭EU鈥檚 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).
Previously, even when users selected a different default browser, Chrome remained in this prominent position, steering users back toward Google鈥檚 own browser and undermining the user鈥檚 choice.
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We are grateful to BEUC, Mozilla, Vivaldi, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Brave for their valuable support in achieving this result. We would also like to thank OWA volunteers John Ozbay, Roderick Gadellaa and James Heppell who helped make this happen at the DMA workshops.
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Finally, and perhaps most of all, we thank the European Commission鈥檚 Digital Markets Act team for its important precedent-setting work.
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