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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] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

According to softpedia (the descriptions of the web engine is somewhat buried in the texts):

Aloha: chromium

Vivaldi: chromium

Brave: chromium

AFAIK Ecosia is not a browser, but a search engine.

TL;DR all

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ecosia web browser for Android devices is based on Chromium too, see its Wikipedia article.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gotcha. So really the only viable competition is Mozilla Firefox (+ forks) vs Google.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

As it always has been.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ecosia isn't even a search engine. The search engine is bing, ecosia is just a frontend for Bing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Is it just a frontend for Bing? The results differ. I'm not shure which search engine I like best.