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Opera the browser company is dead. Their management decided they don't want to make browsers anymore, replaced the presto development team with a chromium mod
by Mithaldu 11y ago
Opera the browser company is dead.
Their management decided they don't want to make browsers anymore, replaced the presto development team with a chromium modding team, and focussed on selling ads.
In the financial report 1Q15 you can see that out of 127 mio revenue, only 17.1 mio come from browsers: http://www.operasoftware.com/company/investors/finance http://www.operasoftware.com/company/investors/finance
If they're still one of your favourites, then i guess you like ads a lot?
- ago 11y agoI agree that Opera the browser is not as competitive as they once were, but for the ads point you could say the same about Chrome since Google makes its money from advertising, not from the browser. I haven't seen any ads outside of the web content in Chrome or Opera (at least since version 8.5).
- nickpsecurity 11y agoGood counter. It's pretty much all ads these days with browsers being a delivery mechanism.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoOr I just didn't know that. Thanks for the info. ;)