Perhaps because it is also the first option by alphabetical order?
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Brave Browser Reports Spike in EU Installs After iOS 17.4 DMA Changes
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But isn’t that what Brave is saying? Give users a choice and things change
That’s not misleading, it just means some people don’t know how to read a graph
I'm always surprised Brave is not more popular. Yes, if you don't care about its crypto features, you "have to" manually hide a few features. But blocking YouTube ads out of the box is pretty nice. I pay for YouTube Premium, but I dread logging in because I don't want to make it even easier for Google to track my every move, so I only do that on the TV.
Although, I guess if Brave ever hits a certain popularity threshold, Google will find a way to break this feature.
Although, I guess if Brave ever hits a certain popularity threshold, Google will find a way to break this feature.
I'm downvoting for two reasons.
- The list is random, as already said. So Brave being on top for you is nil argument. You can't argue with position in a random listing.
- It's not an advertising. It's a fair competition thing. The EU DMA mandate. If anything, Safari being preinstalled is unfair competition in the browser segment. This equalizes the competition on the market, it's not an advertising and definitely not free advertising by Apple. Apple is Microsoft 2000s all over again with their Internet Explorer back in the days.
Amazing how the EU is take care of all
People here! I hope we can see more changes in future🙏🏼 🇪🇺
People here! I hope we can see more changes in future🙏🏼 🇪🇺
The list is not being displayed in alphabetical order. It's random for every user.
I would never use a browser other than safari. 🤷🏻♂️
As is your choice - but people are now able to do otherwise, and it seems that SOME are.
Installing alternative browsers was not hard and was easy as going to the App Store and clicking download.
I’d be interested in how many users retain using the app after a day or two. Also, I’d like to see how the browsers function on iOS without having to use WebKit and instead use their own backend rendering engine.
I’d be interested in how many users retain using the app after a day or two. Also, I’d like to see how the browsers function on iOS without having to use WebKit and instead use their own backend rendering engine.
Don't worry, Brave uses a similar technique as the uBlock origin extension. It uses externally updated "scripts" that could be modified to fight malicious changes on websites to force pesky advertisements.
I think the bigger issue is the time period. 3 months? If the text here is accurate, and they saw as many as 10,000 daily installs preceding the start point here as their maximum… then we’re talking 10%. 1000 more than their historical max. Woo. Hoo. Maybe historically January and February were always lower months and all the other months for the prior 12 were at that 10k. We’ll never know based on the limited information in the graph.
The US needs to fix this garbage too… oh wait money talks more here and congress sucks.
It is, thanks to DMA.
...maybe the rest of the world also awakens in the future?
Yes, and that’s exactly the purpose, so that not only Safari gets free advertising, thereby distorting competition.
Is it manipulation? I don't see it that way. It's just a graph of download numbers. It doesn't start at zero because there are more than zero downloads.
Now what I'm interested to see is if the numbers stay high or fall back off.
Okay. 1. it's random. I had the argument because MR's screenshot also shows Brave on top. So that's that.
2. Do we know if it is a taxative list? Probably not, because there are other browsers that are not listed. Or is not only the order randomised but also the browsers itself?
There are definitely parallels, but MS had almost total market share of PCs at the time. iPhone has maybe 25-30% in the EU. Apple disallowing changes to the default browser was the real issue, not the pre-installation of Safari.
I would argue that every operating system should have a browser preinstalled. It's the gateway to everything else. You could argue that the app store solves that issue, but most users would be mystified if they didn't have a browser out of the box.
I'm not saying I disagree with you - but for EU 25-30% market share is definitely enough to be considered as gatekeeper and thus have to follow the DMA rules.
I personally don't see pushing the competition as a bad thing. Yes, this browser choice screen can be perceived as annoyance by some - but its shown only once and I believe it's worth it for the competition boost.