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1. Eric Eggert (yatil@yatil.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 18:54:59 JST Eric Eggert

   URGH. Terrible news.

   (The TL;DR on my view is that the “Open Web” advocates look at walled gardens from a browser perspective but not from a services perspective. Once Chrome can be required on iOS, Google will likely do it for its services. Combine it with the removal of ad blockers coming up, this can destroy browser diversity for good. OWA assumes browsers are on equal footing, but people prefer service access to browser choice, they will switch in a heartbeat.)

   https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-loses-on-appeal/

   • Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Eric Eggert (yatil@yatil.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 18:55:50 JST Eric Eggert

     in reply to

     (TL;DR continued: That does not mean I like the current situation, and it is not a good choice to make. But if I had to choose, why put the power over what browsers get required into the company which not only controls the world’s most-used services but also the world’s biggest advertising network? And the world’s most used browser. This might be the end of the web as we know it.)