to Mozilla Examples of consumer harm resulting from this self-preference behavior include limited or frustrated choice, lower quality, lower innovation, poor privacy, and unfair contracts.
Report, “self comes at a time when ‘choosing’ remains a hot topic in tech regulation; UK competition watchdog, Google and Apple’s a final report highlighting “significant concerns” about market dominance published.
Mozilla’s The report accuses big tech firms of a wide variety of examples of malpractice. These include blocking standalone app discovery, how some companies have bundled their respective browsers with operating systems and set them as OS defaults on the main home screen or dock location. states.
Big blame from Mozilla! They are forcing users!
Mozilla Moreover, Apple’s until 2020 from safari Stating that it lacks the necessary settings to make it not the default browser, he called on some big technology companies to not prevent the use of other independent applications. in the report Safari from iOS It is also emphasized that it cannot be deleted.
Mozilla for several years Microsoft Windows He claimed that this was also the case with his computers, saying that “consumers are faced with increasingly aggressive practices, some of which are aimed at reversing their decision to use non-Microsoft software, for example overriding the default browser”.
Mozilla spokesperson, “Consumers should have control over their online experience and be able to choose what software they want to use, including something different from what the operating system provider offers,” he said. “People shouldn’t have to struggle with operating systems that are constantly annoying, confusing, and changing their preferences in favor of their own software”.