European iPhone owners are being shown a new pop-up screen listing alternatives to the Safari browser. The developers of the browsers shown on that screen are torn about the user experience.
  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    When it was forced to add a search engine default selector to Android in 2019, many of the developers behind alternative options initially criticized the design and denounced Google’s practice of selling slots on the screen through auctions.

    Naked corruption.

    Also, if your users need a web browser defined in 2024, I’m sorry that your users are fucking morons and old people. The old people will die soon and then you’ll only have the morons left.

    • nix@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      You need to meet more young people they don't know either specifically because companies like google and apple try to obscure competition by making their way seem like the only way.

    • Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      The average people don't know the concept of browser. I saw people using Google search (the app) as a browser. I saw people trying to login in their webmail using Google search (the app), then in order to see what photo they wanted to upload they went back to home by closing the WebView, watching the photo, then using again the Google search app to login in their webmail. Extremely infuriating, I wanted to die.