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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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They are, I believe the commission has also been investigating apple for this. But it might also be considered a different situation since, as far as I understood, google was fined for pressuring other manufacturers into pre-installing google search and chrome on their devices.
Well, WebKit, not safari (you could say safari is apple's WebKit skin, I guess), but you're right. The DMA was supposed to fix this and force them to allow other browser engines, but I don't think much has changed in this regard. I'm not aware of any browsers not using WebKit on iOS so far, at least.
Thank you for being corrective about the WebKit thing.
I wish media and others would be more accurate when talking about browsers. All these "Chrome-based" browsers are not "based" on Chrome at all, they are just using Blink, the rendering engine, which Chrome/Chromium also uses. And Blink itself is based on/forked from WebKit, funny enough.
I don't get all the fuss about browsers. google and apple are really just trying to make sure everyone is using a KHTML based browser, out of the goodness of their heart, so it is good for everyone. KHTML is good. don't fight against it.
Any particular reason why it's "good for everyone", or it just is?
Diversity and non-monopoly is good.
/s
if it was just the rendering engine and not the entire base browser, removal of the APIs from chrome needed for ublock origin wouldn't be that big of a deal.
You right you right 👍