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"One would rightly quail if just a few foreign firms owned Europe’s roads, ports or electricity grid. Yet, for 15 years, this is precisely what we’ve allowed to happen to our tech infrastructure — the backbone of our economy and democracy." 💯 #DMA #antitrust #Google #Meta #news #adtech #DigitalSovereignty #StrategicAutonomy https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-brussels-belgium-trade-talks-tech/

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 2 weeks ago

@sab38
> There are other browsers available that make various changes to Firefox behavior

Any of those available in F-Droid? AFAIK other than Fennec, all the web browsers available there are wrappers around the Chrome WebView built into Android.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 2 weeks ago

#TechHistory nerd side note:

One outcome of the 2001 antitrust case against BorgSoft was to stop them making all web browsing on Windows depend on Internet Exploiter. The Safari WebView on iThings does *exactly* what BorgSoft were forbidden from doing.

I'm guessing Goggle use various backhanded tricks to push app devs into using the Chrome WebView on Android. We're certainly at risk of future enshittification making it compulsory there too.

#AntiMonopoly prosecutors take note.

#AntiTrust

Cory Doctorow boosted

Jan Blockx

@jblockx@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

Interesting take on the recent uptick in #antitrust enforcement by @pluralistic. However, I think billionaire capture of politics is much more pronounced in the US compared to other countries that have stricter campaign finance laws. In the US, billionaires can basically “bid” for political power through PACs. #USpol.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114761321796914062

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

Britain's competition regulator has finally come up with a plan to control Google's search business, but a shift in the political wind in favor of big tech makes it more of a bark than a bite. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/26/tech/uk-politics-antitrust-google/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #google #alphabet #tech #antitrust #uk

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 4 weeks ago

⛔ Microsoft is blocking Google Chrome through its family safety feature • The Verge

｢ some users have even found that renaming Chrome.exe to Chrome1.exe works around this issue ｣

https://www.theverge.com/news/690179/microsoft-block-google-chrome-family-safety-feature

#microsoft #chrome #antitrust

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · last month

"Maybe, something like this [anti-genocide boycotts] will shame this will scare, or shame ... festivals or companies or whatever into making more ethical choices.

I mean, this is before we even get onto the antitrust case that the US DoJ is taking against TicketMaster and Live Nation, which is next March I think that starts. Big money is never clean."

#UnaMullally, 2025