🎙️ Check out Bruce Lawson’s interview with Alex Moore, executive director and co-founder of Open Web Advocacy. They explore OWA’s history, why it exists, and what it’s fighting for: a better, more competitive web 🌐✊ open-web-advocacy.org/blog/bruce-l...

Bruce Lawson Interviews OWA: For A Better Web - Open Web Advocacy

Check out Bruce Lawson’s interview with Alex Moore, executive director and co-founder of Open Web Advocacy. They run through the history of OWA, why OWA exists…

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"Apple’s claims for WebKit’s superior speed, privacy and security don’t stand up to scrutiny. It’s time for the regulators to strike down Apple’s restrictive terms and conditions, and compel Cupertino to fix BrowserEngineKit, so we can have genuine competition on iOS." 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more:

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» “Safari. Blazing fast. Incredibly Private.” – O RLY!?!?

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Newly published tests show a Chromium/Blink engine running on iOS is 28.6% faster than Safari in Speedometer page responsiveness tests. 🏎️💨📱⚡️ This is a clear example of the costs Apple imposes on consumers and businesses, costs created by its 17-year ban on competing browser engines. 🧵👇️ (1/8)

28% Faster: The Blink Prototype That Shows Why Apple's iOS Browser Engine Ban Must End - Open Web Advocacy

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Newly published tests show a Chromium/Blink engine running on iOS is 28.6% faster than Safari in Speedometer page responsiveness tests. 🏎️💨📱⚡️ This is a clear example of the costs Apple imposes on consumers and businesses, costs created by its 17-year ban on competing browser engines. 🧵👇️ (1/8)

28% Faster: The Blink Prototype That Shows Why Apple's iOS Browser Engine Ban Must End - Open Web Advocacy

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“Microsoft engineers have published benchmark results showing that a Chromium-based browser using its own rendering engine scores 28.6% higher than Safari on Apple's own Speedometer 3.1 performance test on iOS” www.macrumors.com/2026/06/17/w...

Apple's WebKit Rules Reportedly Cost iOS Users Almost 30% Browser Performance

Microsoft engineers have published benchmark results showing that a Chromium-based browser using its own rendering engine scores 28.6% higher than Safari on Apple's own Speedometer 3.1 performance tes...

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Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft. "The performance tax comes to 28.6%, almost as much as Apple's 30% commission. Even without performance optimisation, Blink on iOS is faster than WebKit. But you can't have it, because of Apple's iOS rules.

Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft

Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims

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Safari 28.6% slower than Chromium on iOS. This is the tax every single user on iOS has to pay as a result of the #AppleBrowserBan www.theregister.com/software/202...

Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft

Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims

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Proton CTO Bart Butler urges the 🇬🇧 UK to start enforcing competition laws against Big Tech before it's 'too late' 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more: www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

Proton CTO urges the UK to start enforcing competition laws against Big Tech before it's 'too late'

Proton and tech allies demand UK regulators crack down on Apple and Google's dominance

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The Digital Markets Act was designed to move fast, but Politico’s reporting highlights how enforcement is being slowed by legal caution, limited resources, and the threat of litigation from Big Tech How well the DMA is enforced will have far-reaching consequences for the Web 🧵👇️ (1/10) 📖Read more:

The EU’s Big Tech law was meant to move fast. It hasn’t.

As the Digital Markets Act enters its third year, critics say enforcement is drifting toward the same delays that have plagued traditional antitrust probes.

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Open Web Advocacy joins 17 businesses, industry bodies, public figures and civil society organisations calling for more ambitious and urgent enforcement of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) 🚨 🧵👇️ (1/28) 📖Read more: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/open-le...

Open Letter: Why the CMA Must Enforce the DMCCA - Open Web Advocacy

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Open Web Advocacy joins 17 businesses, industry bodies, public figures and civil society organisations calling for more ambitious and urgent enforcement of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) 🚨 🧵👇️ (1/28) 📖Read more: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/open-le...

Open Letter: Why the CMA Must Enforce the DMCCA - Open Web Advocacy

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The 🇪🇺 European Commission is reportedly planning to ​fine Google a high triple-digit million euro amount ‌as part of a non-compliance investigation under the Digital Markets Act. 🧵👇️ (1/4) 📖Read more: www.reuters.com/world/europe...

EU plans to fine Google high triple-digit million euro sum, Handelsblatt reports

The European Union is planning to ​fine Alphabet's Google a high triple-digit million euro amount ‌as part of an antitrust investigation, Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper reported on Monday, citing co...

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The 🇺🇸U.S. District Court for New Jersey is appointing three special masters to DOJ vs Apple to assist with the discovery process. This case has important implications for ⚙️browser engines and 🌐web apps. www.courtlistener.com/docket/68362... 🧵👇️ (1/5)

Memorandum – #431 in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. APPLE INC. (D.N.J., 2:24-cv-04055) – CourtListener.com

MEMORANDUM. Signed by Judge Julien Xavier Neals on 5/5/2026. (arm) (Entered: 05/05/2026)

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Firefox now supports Web Serial on desktop 🦊 This means web apps can connect to compatible hardware devices such as microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware. Allowing the Web to do even more! 📖Read more: 🧵👇️ (1/11)

Mozilla and Adafruit bring Web Serial workflows to Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

Launching Web Serial in Firefox 151 The web is built by communities, but not all communities use the web the same way.  That philosophy shaped part of

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Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has been granted leave to intervene in Apple v. European Commission (T-359/25). Apple is seeking to annul a 2025 Commission decision imposing interoperability measures it must take to comply with Article 6(7) of the Digital Markets Act. 🧵👇️ (1/9) 📖Read more:

Civil Society Role Grows in EU’s DMA Case Against Apple

The Free Software Foundation Europe's intervention in Apple's DMA challenge is a test case for civil society's role in tech regulation, writes Megan Kirkwood.

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"Apple’s latest iOS 26.5 update is bringing some AirPods and Apple Watch-exclusive features to third-party earbuds and wearables — but only for phones in the EU." 🧵👇️ (1/8) 📖Read more: www.techradar.com/phones/ios/i...

Apple is finally bringing Apple Watch and AirPod features to third-party wearables with iOS 26.5— the catch? This only applies to EU citizens

Apple is finally bringing Apple Watch and AirPod features to third-party wearables.

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The 🇺🇸⚖️ US Supreme Court has declined to pause the order holding Apple in contempt in the Epic Games lawsuit. 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more: www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

US Supreme Court declines to pause order holding Apple in contempt in Epic Games lawsuit

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday Apple's request to ​temporarily block a judicial order that found the iPhone maker in violation of sweeping court-mandated changes to its lucrative ‌App St...

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The 🇺🇸⚖️ US Supreme Court has declined to pause the order holding Apple in contempt in the Epic Games lawsuit. 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more: www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

US Supreme Court declines to pause order holding Apple in contempt in Epic Games lawsuit

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday Apple's request to ​temporarily block a judicial order that found the iPhone maker in violation of sweeping court-mandated changes to its lucrative ‌App St...

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The EU’s Digital Markets Act choice screens are working 🇪🇺 Since March 2024, more than 6 million people in the EU have selected Firefox as their default browser, roughly one every 10 seconds. 🦊 User choice and merit should drive browser competition, not control of operating systems. 📖Read more:

Brussels’ DMA regulation handed Firefox millions of new users

Thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Mozilla has gained more than 6 million new users for its web browser Firefox.

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The EU's Digital Markets Act is delivering real wins for consumers in the EU, and in some cases globally. Apple and Google are opening up functionality that was previously reserved for their own products. But one glaring failure remains: browser engines on iOS. 🧵👇️ (1/23)

The Digital Markets Act Is Delivering Real Wins, But Not Yet for Browser Engines - Open Web Advocacy

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Amazing post. I hope web devs understand this as downstream of antitrust pressure on Apple re: iOS & other browsers. @open-web-advocacy.org won the headcount Apple poured in since '20 because it allowed them to claim engagement w/o threatening the app store: blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-cs...

🔥 "Capable browsers, and the PWAs they support, hold the power to grow an ecosystem of applications that no gatekeeper can own or tax, based on standardised APIs that resist enclosure. But few outlets are connecting these dots for readers." 📖 Read: infrequently.org/2026/04/the-...

Thank you Open Web Advocacy (@open-web-advocacy.org) for supporting Keep Android Open @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen

OWA NEW REPORT 🚨 Apple’s interoperability “commitments” in the UK 🇬🇧 are a smokescreen: 👉 No obligation to share anything 👉 Broad excuses to say no 👉 Fees for APIs 👉 No public transparency They can comply… and change nothing 😬 Bad for devs. Bad for users. OWA gives you the deep dive: 🧵👇️ (1/13)

Our Submission to the CMA on Apple’s iOS Interoperability Commitments - Open Web Advocacy

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OWA NEW REPORT 🚨 Apple’s interoperability “commitments” in the UK 🇬🇧 are a smokescreen: 👉 No obligation to share anything 👉 Broad excuses to say no 👉 Fees for APIs 👉 No public transparency They can comply… and change nothing 😬 Bad for devs. Bad for users. OWA gives you the deep dive: 🧵👇️ (1/13)

Our Submission to the CMA on Apple’s iOS Interoperability Commitments - Open Web Advocacy

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Alex Moore (Executive Director of OWA) and John Ozbay (CEO and Founder of Cryptee) were recently interviewed by Simonetta Vezzoso, a European academic specializing in digital competition law and the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Check it out: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/questio... 🧵👇 (1/7)

Q&A with Simonetta Vezzoso: The Open Web, Apple, and the DMA - Open Web Advocacy

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This is great news, and outstanding work by @open-web-advocacy.org. Without their tenacity, the web wouldn't have a chance at a comeback on mobile.

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In a significant win for smaller browsers, the open web, and the 🇪🇺EU’s 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). open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-... 🧵👇 (1/7)

In case anyone is wondering why in-app browsers (without opt-in) are bad: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-...

In-App Browsers: The worst erosion of user choice you haven't heard of - Open Web Advocacy

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In a significant win for smaller browsers, the open web, and the 🇪🇺EU’s 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). open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-... 🧵👇 (1/7)

Google Backs Down: Will Grant Hotseat in EU Browser Choice Screen - Open Web Advocacy

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Which? - The UK’s not for profit consumer champion had this to say about the UK CMA's proposed remedies. 👉 Read More: www.which.co.uk/policy-and-i...