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Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible (letter.open-web-advocacy.org)
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We need to exert more pressure on apple and eu to not remove PWAs. Every signature counts, please sign and share EU has already started a preliminary investigation on this http://archive.today/2024.02.26-223134/https://www.ft.com/content/d2f7328c-5851-4f16-8f8d-93f0098b6adc

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[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 169 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The company said cutting off PWAs was part of an effort to comply with the Digital Markets Act, arguing browsers other than its own Safari software would expose users to security and privacy risks that were not permitted under the law.

They are so full of shit, it's unbelievable! Are they really claiming that their own browser is THE ONLY legal browser there is?!

[–] P1r4nha@feddit.de 90 points 1 year ago

It's blatant anti-competitive behavior and anybody who cares about antitrust should be outraged about this and similar efforts. Getting legal protection for such decisions is nothing but regulatory capture.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't they already force every browser on their app store to use the safari engine because "security"?

[–] sjstulga@fosstodon.org 8 points 1 year ago

@ICastFist
Yes, however the EU enacted new regulations to put a stop to that practice, so that Apple will be required to allow other browsers on their platform.

Disabling PWAs is how Apple has chosen to retaliate against those new regulations.

[–] elrik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, although that recently changed in the EU (only) with the Digital Markets Act.