Why Apple’s iPhone Browser-Choice Option Sucks
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https://www.wired.com/story/browser-choice-screen-apple-digital-markets-act/Open linkView original on lemmy.ml
Options?
You mean :
Safari
Safari but it's not scared of the dark
Safari park fire with a fox for some reason
Edge-ing in Safari park
Opera of the Safari
Safari but with trees
DuckDuckGoing to Safari myself later
You Safari from crippling depression
Safari has layers / it's all Safari now / Safari is Love, Safari is Life
USSafaRi
::: spoiler Explaining the joke : I'm making fun of the fact that all browsers on IOS are required to use WebKit. :::
This article is also only applicable to EU, where (as your link mentions) alternative browsers don't need to be WebKit. Chrome and Firefox are already working on switching.
Yes but let's remember everyone that Apple did their "best" in this. If a developer makes a browser that doesn't use WebKit, then can publish that version only in Europe. For the rest of the world it's still forced to publish the usual "Safari skin". Basically doubling the work and the monetary cost of developing a browser.
In Russia, Safari becomes you!
Naked corruption.
Also, if your users need a web browser defined in 2024, I’m sorry that your users are fucking morons and old people. The old people will die soon and then you’ll only have the morons left.
You need to meet more young people they don't know either specifically because companies like google and apple try to obscure competition by making their way seem like the only way.
Can you please elaborate what you mean "web browser defined in 2024"? Thanks.
he's referring to the fact that a web browser is a 30 year old technology and there are apparently people still dont know what it is
That I'm not surprised. Look how many companies are shoving apps down our throat while treating web browser users as second class citizens. My sister (21-30 age group) only know to use the "Google app" to search the web on her iPhone while Safari is pinned at the bottom and rarey uses it.
the reason is that corps can harvest massively more data with an application installed directly in your OS, rather than trying to stay within the security confines of the browser sandbox
My sister doesn't do that, but other students at my school are like that
The average people don't know the concept of browser. I saw people using Google search (the app) as a browser. I saw people trying to login in their webmail using Google search (the app), then in order to see what photo they wanted to upload they went back to home by closing the WebView, watching the photo, then using again the Google search app to login in their webmail. Extremely infuriating, I wanted to die.
Jfc. I don't have much exposure to people younger than me using technology. Family (nieces and nephew) live in another state, so I don't watch them use phones and tablets. I wonder if my adult niece (who's very bright) is doing things this way and I just wasn't aware. Fuck me. I thought we'd be past this by now.
i do wish google would go back to the pre-2010 google, but i still can't imagine using anything but android. everything about apple/iphone just seems infuriating to use.
I kinda like the baseline security advantages. Not that android can't be better in security, but none of my friends give a shit, and so my iphone friends walk around with better baseline security.
https://old.reddit.com/user/ghostinshell000
I just want Firefox in iOS to have Firefox extensions. Like that is the one feature from Apple that I wish to see.
I just want a browser that isn't safari with the skin on it since we're not allowed to have 3rd party browsers on iOS.
Did mozilla manage to compile a version of firefox without webkit for iphones already? Or is it still a webkit wrapper?
Anti Commercial-AI license
Only in the EU the browser companies can use their own engine in iOS, in the USA they only can use Apple Web
CrapKitApple = Malus.
Anti Commercial-AI license
I don't believe there's any issue actually building the app. However, the app store policies forbid them from shipping it or offering it as a side-loadable option.
Probably the EU will have something to say about that. Hopefully Malus gets another nice fine for that.
Anti Commercial-AI license
Does that actually do anything?
Dunno yet. Probably depends on the outcome of current legal cases against commercial AI companies. Github/Microsoft was sued for example because of CoPilot being accused of using GPL licensed code without adhering to the provisions therein.
Anti Commercial-AI license
Does the Lemmy ToS not have something about having the rights to the stuff you post?
Which federated server owns it? (Seriously not being snarky, just adding mud to the puddle).
Is there a paywall free version?
There isn't a paywall, only a subscription banner which you can close.
true; thanks! on my phone it took up most of the page and i just quickly assumed it was a paywall...
Wah. Wah. Wah.
You can choose brave or firefox. Or maybe you are not too much privacy concious then vivaldi also a good choice. I think these are better than using other browsers from outside store. Maybe thats too a reason why iphone is so smooth and fast.
That isn't the point, it is not that you can select a browser, it's about that you can select only an another browser after selecting Safari, not in the first setup in a new iPhone (smooth and fast?WTF, every phone in this priceclass is, maybe even more)
Why would Vivaldi be for "not too much privacy concious"?
because it's chrome
It's not Chrome
Under the hood, the engine is the exact same engine that powers Chrome. They didn't fork it, it's Chromium.
Chromium isn't proprietary, it's open source.
Yeah, Chromium is not proprietary. It is a free and open-source software project developed and maintained by Google.
But vivaldi is absolutely proprietary as it's not open-source.