I’m going to ignore the security angle and post my big fear.

Chrome has dominance similar to IE at the height of its popularity.

Whatever you think of their decisions, Apple is the only thing stopping a 90%+ Chrome web. (Note: not why they’re doing it, just a side effect)

People keep arguing Apple is being anti-competitive. But no one seems to recon with the possible consequences of what they’re asking for. And I fear we may get a pyrrhic victory if these groups/governments keep pushing.

No, I don’t know a good solution. But I don’t think letting Chrome totally own the web is a good outcome.

On the other hand, this denies me from using an actual Mozilla Firefox web browser on iOS.

Imposing an artificial limit on iOS isn't how the web will move forward.

> Whatever you think of their decisions, Apple is the only thing stopping a 90%+ Chrome web.

I don't see Apple making any effort to diversify the browser ecosystem by making their browser available on other operating systems, so their inaction on other fronts isn't going to reverse the trend either.

> On the other hand, this denies me from using an actual Mozilla Firefox web browser on iOS.

At the same time, most desktop computer users are able to use Firefox and we can see how often they choose to do so.

Also since Firefox for android removed one of its distinctive features a few years ago; once you could set it to ask how to open a link (send to another device, share, copy to clipboard, open normally) when an app tried to start a browser; now you can no longer do that.

I use different browsers for different things so I want to chose how to open external app links.

I would install a shim browser that does just that if I knew of one.

https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker

It also integrates ClearURLs functionality (https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls) to let you remove tracking from links before sending it to the browser or app. This feature is optional.