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Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
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Re: Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
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Re: Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
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> if you want to make a browser in the EU, you have to be extremely serious about it. Why is this a problem? No, really; why is it a bad thing that if you want to create a complete new browser, you have to actually be serious and committed to it? A web browser is a pretty significant piece of software, and it sits between you and the entire web . You do your banking through it. You access your email through it. You b…
For the record you can still put your meme browser on F-droid and let people download it. It just won't be in any Android default list.
It’s possible to have software, including browsers, that are not subject to the CRA.
F-droid is essentially a Netherlands-based non-profit that will follow EU law when they have to. Some, but not all, of the software they currently host will be subject to the CRA, and if F-droid wishes to continue hosting it they’ll be a distributor under the CRA and be subject to obligations that they currently do not have.
The situation today is not the situation next year, and especially not 2 years from now.
Re: Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
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Yeah. That particular one is definitely a case of “not today Satan”. I do wish there was a non-privacy invading maps app outside of Apple though.
Check out Organic Maps - https://organicmaps.app/ - it runs on OpenStreetMaps, is privacy focused (no data collection, no ads, no tracking), is open source, runs offline, is multi-platform and even supports old ios versions (which none of the other popular Maps app do). (Old HN discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37347447 )
The CoMaps fork might be a better choice: