The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on. One DMA rule forces the powerful “gatekeeper” tech companies to allow third-party app stores...
  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There’s a rule banning “self-preferencing.” That’s when platforms push their often inferior, in-house products and hide superior products made by their rivals.

    Spaz isn’t going to like this.

    • stephan@feddit.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      He wouldn’t if it applied to him. Unfortunately, reddit I not a gatekeeper in the sense of the DMA and due to its management it’s also unlikely to ever reach that position :)