Brave, Mozilla, Vivaldi see browser installs rise on iOS

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Brave, Mozilla, Vivaldi see browser installs rise on iOS
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Currently Firefox on the iPhone is still running Safari. It'll soon change for folks in the EU only.

Any idea where I can see a timeline for this change? I'm eager to see a decent browser on ios.

It will only change if the developer goes ahead and makes a special EU version for the app. And many wont, because that takes too many human resources to do and maintain. This was a rule made by Apple on purpose, together with all their other malicious compliance moves: they made it hard for developers so devs will just keep everything as it always was and not use the new EU exclusive things

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