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"Pioneer"? Really? Is the bar so low now that embedding ads into the browser is considered innovative?

• rimantas 11y ago
  IIRC Opera had it years ago. Maybe even before there was Firefox.
  • ake1 11y ago
    they had ads but only in the free version, if you bought opera there were no ads.
    • gsnedders 11y ago
      Well… of sorts. The default set on Speed Dial were (and are) sold, which you can easily construe as adverts.
• Certhas 11y ago
  That's not what they did. They embedded targeted ads that respected your privacy, by having all targeting done client side and not sending information about you back to the server. That the general public doesn't care about that is one thing, that all the people crtizising them here don't seem to care is another.