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EU's new tech laws are working as small browsers gain market share (www.reuters.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Independent browser companies in the European Union are seeing a spike in users in the first month after EU legislation forced Alphabet's Google, Microsoft, and Apple to make it easier for users to switch to rivals, according to data provided to Reuters by six companies.

The early results come after the EU's sweeping Digital Markets Act, which aims to remove unfair competition, took effect on March 7, forcing big tech companies to offer mobile users the ability to select from a list of available web browsers from a "choice screen."

Cyprus-based Aloha Browser said users in the EU jumped 250% in March - one of the first companies to give monthly growth numbers since the new regulations came in.

Norway's Vivaldi, Germany's Ecosia and U.S.-based Brave have also seen user numbers rise following the new regulation.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Vivaldi is employee owned and has no VC involvement. No AI hype, no crypto bs, no ads.

They seem pretty good, as far as non-FOSS options go.

See https://vivaldi.com/company/ for more.

I tried their browser the other week and was pleasantly surprised by some innovative features.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Then there's Mozilla, which is an actual nonprofit and builds its own engine for Firefox, ie does not solidify Google's grip on the internet (eg can feasibly keep supporting tracker blockers like uBlock Origin).

(Which is not to say that I'm not sympathetic to Vivaldi as well.)