One month after DMA implementation, more users are leaving popular web browsers for smaller apps

  • Smaller web browsers are thriving in the EU thanks to the DMA’s choice screens.

  • Some lesser-known browsers have seen as much as a 250% increase since the DMA was implemented in March.

  • The US has yet to implement similar policies, but users in that market could still benefit from ripple effects caused by the EU’s DMA.

  • TommySalami@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I think it is definitely a weird “first world” thing. I’ve run into it a couple times on a personal level, and just about a week or so ago I got a “wait, you’re an android person??? Ugh” when trading numbers with someone for a work thing (as in this is the first time I was meeting this person, and the interaction was entirely “professional”). This is all separate from the friends I have that play it up as joke, since I’m one of the only people with an android in the group.

    Idk what the kids are doing, but it’s absolutely a thing for some people in their twenty’s and beyond.