Oh the games Cupertino plays. Being made to look fools on a loop ain't great for regulators, nevermind the market, and maybe the UK noticed? Fingers crossed:
https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-cmas-proposed-nfc-access-conduct-requirement-for-apples-ios/
/by @brucelawson
Oct 24, 2026, 10:23 PM@slightlyoff @brucelawson AFAICT the Chrome, Edge, and similar browser developers all said “what if we fork WebKit and add a lot of security/privacy bugs?”
Almost every service Google provides is justified by violating user privacy to further profile them.
You may not like it, but Apple sure seems to be protecting users here.
Sure seems like you might not be in touch with the actual track record of these engines. Here are some threads to pull on:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/#safari-users-are-exposed-for-longer
https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/
But returning to the actual issue: nobody is going to make you use a browser other than Safari if you don't like Safari. Think Apple's doing great (evidence be damned)? Keep using it!
The thing about choice is that it gives you....er....choices.
@alexr Apart from the that Google pays Apple billions each year to be default iPhone search, and Apple uses Google to power Siri, Apple’s advertising business just had its best quarter ever https://searchenginewatch.com/apples-advertising-business-just-had-its-best-quarter-ever/ @slightlyoff
Oct 25, 2026, 10:23 PM@brucelawson @slightlyoff Do you even know what advertising formats and where those occur? It is not the same as Google.
Just because Google or Meta have terrible values does not mean Apple does. It’s actually an epidemic for Apple that the people they’re hiring are increasingly toxic because they worked at terrible places such as Microsoft before Apple.