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The proposal is so obscene that I doubt Apple, Google or even Microsoft would ever comply with it.
by diego_sandoval 3y ago
The proposal is so obscene that I doubt Apple, Google or even Microsoft would ever comply with it.
- neodypsis 3y agoI guess Europe would have to fund its own browser development. The rest of the world won't participate.
- supriyo-biswas 3y agoDeveloping a browser these days mostly involves slapping on their own branding over Firefox or Chromium though, so hardly the end of the world for EU.
- datpiff 3y agoIt's a market of nearly half a billion people, two-tier browsers seem more likely. IIRC Netscape did this in the past over US export laws on cryptography.
- justinclift 3y agoThey'd probably be fined into submission if they don't though.
- diego_sandoval 3y agoIf it gets to that point, one alternative would be creating some ad-hoc non profits that are on paper not controlled by them (but in practice they are) and then giving up the control of their respective browsers to said non-profits. But it won't get to that point. I don't really think the US government would be ok with a regulation like this, either, and they have even more bargaining power than tech companies.