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Bruce Lawson's summary of the UK's preliminary designation decision, check it out: 🔥 "why the CMA does not aim to create a default interoperability requirement is beyond my small brain to fathom. I’ll be raising it in my response to the consultation" brucelawson.co.uk/2025/cma-desig…

Austria’s Der Standard highlights our coverage of Apple’s ongoing barriers preventing browser vendors from finally porting their engines to iOS. The headline says it all: "Apple and the merely theoretical browser freedom on the iPhone" derstandard.at/consent/tcf/st…

Malicious compliance in action. Say you technically comply but put up roadblocks to make it economically unviable for anyone to get the actual benefit the law is meant to provide. Doing it with app stores and payments too.

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 🧵Let's Dive In

🔥 The Verge just covered our fight to open up iOS to real browser competition. 🚫Apple’s Browser Engine ban blocks the real alternatives 📖 Read what The Verge had to say: theverge.com/news/706569/ap…