Comment on Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks

randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• chameleon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was made as result of an EU settlement that only lasted about 5 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu

  I have absolutely no idea why they figured 5 years would be good enough.

  source

  • cheerjoy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Obviously, the multinational billion dollar company would see the error of their ways in that period of time

    source
  • darreninthenet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The idea is it gives enough time for competition to establish and then everyone completes on an even footing without fettering the original monopoly after it’s no longer a monopoly in that space… arguably it worked as Chrome took over but all that’s happened it it made a new monopoly 🤷🏻‍♂️

    source
• mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When was that?

  source

  • theterrasque@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    www.sitepoint.com/european-browser-choice-today/

    source