Jón and Bruce reflect on the year in tech - what happened with browser choice, Big Tech's grip on the market, AI everywhere, and why they think independent browsers matter. They also share their favorite Vivaldi features and why browsers should work for you, not the other way around.

Show notes:

• Ten years of making new friends by building a browser for you, not Big Tech
• Jon von Tetzchner – For a Better Web 2024 review
• Apple Opens iOS to Developers in Japan
• Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe’s Digital Markets Act
• Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human
• “A.I.” browsers: the price of admission is too high
• Parliament must buy European IT, lawmakers tell Metsola

Bruce chats with Andy Yen, founder and CEO of Proton, about what it’s like for a European company to take on Big Tech. Andy shares his journey from leaving CERN as a particle physicist to building one of the most trusted privacy-focused companies in the world.

He breaks down the lies behind VPN marketing, why most companies can't be trusted, and how Apple and Google's 30 percent tax inflates your bills. He also explains Europe’s trillion-dollar tech mistake.

From VPN myths to Swiss privacy laws, European tech independence, antitrust politics, and Proton’s plan to tackle tariffs and Big Tech taxes, this episode is an umbrella drink filled to the brim with hot topics you’ll want to sip all summer long.

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Show notes:

• Proton on X/Twitter

• DH Lawrence's Relativity poem

• Simon Migliano, Top10VPN

• Proton Foundation

• Swiss ordinance

• Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law

• Gail Slater, The Woman Leading the Surging MAGA Antitrust Movement

• A judge just blew up Apple's control of the App Store

• EuroStack

• The First Three Minutes

• Double Hidden Charm Tetraquark

In this episode, Bruce chats with Gene Burrus, who formerly worked as Assistant General Counsel for Microsoft, working on legal compliance after the landmark Netscape anti-trust case, and now advises Vivaldi and others in the Browser Choice Alliance about how to stop Microsoft going back to its old ways. On the way, we discuss the Cold War, TV courtroom dramas, and why Gene prefers to be poacher-turned-gamekeeper.------------Show notes:

• Burrus Competition Strategies
• Gene on LinkedIn
• Browser Choice Alliance
• United States v. Microsoft Corp ("Netscape case")
• Vivaldi’s Open Letter — Microsoft DMA Compliance
• Microsoft Edge pseudo-protocol
• Commission finds Apple and Meta in breach of the Digital Markets Act
• Vivaldi’s statement on Apple and Meta DMA anti-trust fines
• Bruce Sewell, Former General Counsel of Apple Interviewed
• "Competition is what will ensure that Apple’s conduct and business decisions do not thwart the next Apple" from DOJ and States vs Apple
• "Objection, your honor!"