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Come now, let us be realistic, no one and nothing funds browser development other than advertisement: https://ladybird.org/#sponsors https://ladybird.org/#spon
by ninjin 2y ago
Come now, let us be realistic, no one and nothing funds browser development other than advertisement:
https://ladybird.org/#sponsors https://ladybird.org/#sponsors
- latexr 2y agoThat is provably false. Safari isn’t funded by advertising, neither is Orion, or LibreWolf, or any number of other smaller open-source browsers.
- mccr8 2y agoAccording to news stories, Apple received $20 billion dollars in 2022 from Google to make Google the default search in Safari. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147007/google-paid-apple-20-billion-in-2022-to-be-safaris-default-search-engine https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147007/google-paid-apple...
- latexr 2y agoWhich is easy money that Apple uses for the company as a whole. They don’t make Safari because of Google’s money nor is it likely they would stop developing it if that money was no longer paid.
- rascul 2y agoNone of those appear to be advertising companies.