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Independent small browsers have gained additional market share in the European Union thanks to the mandatory browser selection screen. Reuters writes this based on statements from browser developers.
The developers behind the Aloha, Vivaldi, Ecosia, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Opera, and Private browsers would according to Reuters all have noticed an increase in the number of users. This increase is said to be due to the Digital Markets Act that was introduced on March 7 which now means a browser selection screen will appear on Apple and Google's mobile operating systems to help break the dominance of Safari and Chrome.
It is not clear how many European users have received the browser but some developers have given an indication. The developer behind Aloha tells Reuters that the number of European users has increased by 250 percent since the beginning of March. Aloha has 10 million monthly users worldwide according to Reuters and the European Union is currently the company's second-largest market. Until recently the European Union was the fourth largest market. An Opera executive believes that there is currently a record number of European Opera users.
About a week after the Digital Markets Act came into effect, Mozilla, Brave, and Vivaldi also introduced the news has come out that an increase in the number of users in the European Union could be observed. Installations of Firefox for iOS are said to have increased by 50 percent during the first week after the introduction of the DMA in Germany. In France, there was an increase of about 30 percent. Brave also recorded an increase in the number of installations. By March 6 approximately 6000 installations would have been implemented in the EU. A week later that number was reportedly 11000 installations.
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