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@owa@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

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).

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-backs-down--will-grant-hotseat-in-eu-browser-choice-screen/
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Google Backs Down: Will Grant Hotseat in EU Browser Choice Screen - Open Web Advocacy

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@owa@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

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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@owa@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

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Without prejudice to Google鈥檚 legal position that this is not required by Article 6(3), Google has agreed to place the icon of the browser selected by the user from the choice screen in the hotseat of new Pixel devices.
Google - EU Digital Markets Act Compliance Report
Without prejudice to Google鈥檚 legal position that this is not required by Article 6(3), Google has agreed to place the icon of the browser selected by the user from the choice screen in the hotseat of new Pixel devices. Google - EU Digital Markets Act Compliance Report
Without prejudice to Google鈥檚 legal position that this is not required by Article 6(3), Google has agreed to place the icon of the browser selected by the user from the choice screen in the hotseat of new Pixel devices. Google - EU Digital Markets Act Compliance Report
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@owa@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

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Due to pressure from stakeholders (and most prominently, from Open Web Advocacy), the gatekeeper finally budged and agreed to place the icon of the browser selected by the user as a default from the choice screen displayed according to Article 6(3) DMA in the hotseat of new Pixel devices (page 125 of Alphabet鈥檚 compliance report) (although not on all Android devices).
Dr Alba Ribera Mart铆nez - Lecturer in Competition Law at University Villanueva
Due to pressure from stakeholders (and most prominently, from Open Web Advocacy), the gatekeeper finally budged and agreed to place the icon of the browser selected by the user as a default from the choice screen displayed according to Article 6(3) DMA in the hotseat of new Pixel devices (page 125 of Alphabet鈥檚 compliance report) (although not on all Android devices). Dr Alba Ribera Mart铆nez - Lecturer in Competition Law at University Villanueva
Due to pressure from stakeholders (and most prominently, from Open Web Advocacy), the gatekeeper finally budged and agreed to place the icon of the browser selected by the user as a default from the choice screen displayed according to Article 6(3) DMA in the hotseat of new Pixel devices (page 125 of Alphabet鈥檚 compliance report) (although not on all Android devices). Dr Alba Ribera Mart铆nez - Lecturer in Competition Law at University Villanueva
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@owa@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

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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@owa@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

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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