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Si vous voulez encore utiliser WhatsApp demain, vous devez accepter ces nouvelles conditions aujourd’hui !
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 11 April - 08:47
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Report: People are bailing on Safari after DMA makes changing defaults easier
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 10 April - 17:15
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Pourquoi la Commission européenne enquête-t-elle sur Apple, Meta et Google ?
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 25 March - 11:50
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Facebook, Instagram may cut fees by nearly 50% in scramble for DMA compliance
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 19 March - 16:42
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On pourra remplacer Apple Plans par Google Maps comme app de cartographie par défaut sur l’iPhone
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Sunday, 17 March - 13:00
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iOS : Apple vous laissera bientôt télécharger des applis depuis un site web
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 12 March - 16:14
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On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 6 March - 19:58
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Le DMA entre en vigueur aujourd’hui en Europe : ça change quoi ?
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 6 March - 14:26
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Yelp: It’s gotten worse since Google made changes to comply with EU rules
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Saturday, 24 February - 11:34 · 1 minute · 3 visibility
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Smaller web browsers are gaining traction in the European Union after the Digital Markets Act (DMA) started requiring designated gatekeepers like Google and Apple to make it easier to switch default web browsers on devices.
Previously, tech giants were able to lock users into setting their own browsers as defaults—or at least make it complicated to update the defaults—offering the majority of users their own browsing services for free while collecting data used for ad-targeting. This, the EU feared, kept users from switching to defaults that offered superior or more private web browsing experiences.
Reuters collected data from six companies, confirming that, when presented with a choice screen, many EU users will swap out default browsers like Chrome or Safari for more privacy-focused options. And because iPhones have a larger market share than Google-branded phones in the EU, Apple is emerging as the biggest loser, Reuters reported, noting that under the DMA, "the growth for smaller browsers is currently coming at the cost of Safari."
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Meta is considering cutting monthly subscription fees for Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union nearly in half to comply with the Digital Market Act (DMA), Reuters reported .
During a day-long public workshop on Meta's DMA compliance, Meta's competition and regulatory director, Tim Lamb, told the European Commission (EC) that individual subscriber fees could be slashed from 9.99 euros to 5.99 euros. Meta is hoping that reducing fees will help to speed up the EC's process for resolving Meta's compliance issues. If Meta's offer is accepted, any additional accounts would then cost 4 euros instead of 6 euros.
Lamb said that these prices are "by far the lowest end of the range that any reasonable person should be paying for services of these quality," calling it a "serious offer."
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For months, some of the biggest tech companies have been wrapped up in discussions with the European Commission (EC), seeking feedback and tweaking their plans to ensure their core platform services comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) ahead of that law taking force in the European Union tomorrow.
Under the DMA, companies designated as gatekeepers—Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft—must follow strict rules to ensure that they don't engage in unfair business practices that could limit consumer choice in core platform services. These include app stores, search engines, social networking services, online marketplaces, operating systems, web browsers, advertising services, cloud computing services, virtual assistants, and certain messaging services.
At its heart, the DMA requires more interoperability than ever, making it harder for gatekeepers to favor their own services or block other businesses from reaching consumers on their platforms.
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To comply with looming rules that ban tech giants from favoring their own services, Google has been testing new look search results for flights, trains, hotels, restaurants, and products in Europe. The EU’s Digital Markets Act is supposed to help smaller companies get more traffic from Google, but reviews service Yelp says that when it tested Google’s design tweaks with consumers it had the opposite effect—making people less likely to click through to Yelp or another Google competitor.
The results, which Yelp shared with European regulators in December and WIRED this month, put some numerical backing behind complaints from Google rivals in travel, shopping, and hospitality that its efforts to comply with the DMA are insufficient—and potentially more harmful than the status quo. Yelp and thousands of others have been demanding that the EU hold a firm line against the giant companies including Apple and Amazon that are subject to what’s widely considered the world’s strictest antitrust law, violations of which can draw fines of up to 10 percent of global annual sales.
“All the gatekeepers are trying to hold on as long as possible to the status quo and make the new world unattractive,” says Richard Stables, CEO of shopping comparison site Kelkoo, which is unhappy with how Google has tweaked shopping results to comply with the DMA. “That’s really the game plan.”