Courageous has seen a pointy enhance in customers putting in its privacy-focused Courageous Browser on iPhones after Apple launched modifications to stick to the brand new European Digital Markets Act.
To adjust to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple launched a brand new characteristic in iOS 17.4 that asks EU customers to select a default net browser from an inventory that features Courageous, amongst different choices.
This new display screen will immediate customers to pick out a default browser from browsers which might be in style of their nation after they open Safari for the primary time after putting in the replace.
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For a browser to be listed as a selection, it should meet particular necessities, like having over 5,000 downloads within the EU App Retailer the yr earlier than. Additionally, if an organization provides a number of browser apps, solely its most downloaded app can seem on the checklist.
The selection display screen will present as much as 11 of essentially the most downloaded browsers from the earlier yr in a randomized order, together with Safari.
Apple plans to replace this checklist yearly based mostly on the newest metrics.
Courageous pointed out that, after the replace, there was a noticeable leap within the variety of individuals putting in Courageous on their iOS gadgets within the EU.
“Why did Apple and Google make it onerous to modify default browsers for therefore a few years? As a result of it is a highly effective option to block rivals,” tweeted Courageous.
“Simply have a look at what occurred to Courageous installs on iPhone within the EU when Apple rolled out a brand new default browser selection display screen on March sixth:”
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On X, Courageous shared a picture of a line graph exhibiting the variety of Courageous browser installations on iOS from mid-January to early March.
The day by day installs fluctuate round 7,500 to 10,000 for many of the interval. Nonetheless, on March sixth, after the iOS replace was launched, there was a pointy enhance in installations, hovering to only over 11,000.
This spike in installations coincides with Apple’s introduction of a brand new selection display screen for default browsers on iOS gadgets within the EU.
Courageous claims that this vital enhance in customers selecting Courageous as their default browser is as a result of new characteristic launched by Apple to adjust to the EU DMA.
“Monopoly defenders argue that the monopolies merely provide higher merchandise. However as you may see, when shoppers get a transparent selection of iOS browsers, they’re selecting options to Safari,” famous of their Twitter thread.
“Possibly that is why Google nonetheless hasn’t carried out a browser selection display screen on Android.”
In a follow-up publish, Courageous requested Google to provide customers a straightforward selection to vary the default browser.