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what will decide Opera fates is it's monetization strategy. for browsers, that's the biggest difference (after quality of product) Google, the monetization is
by gcb0 14y ago
what will decide Opera fates is it's monetization strategy.
for browsers, that's the biggest difference (after quality of product)
Google, the monetization is selling the user. So you get features like no-referrer removed (3 or 4 times) from the chromium project by google commits.
if opera also monetize by selling the user, it will have no chance. at all. On the other hand, selling software or showing ads are also not viable. So i'm very curious to what they are going to do.
btw, what is the current business model of opera to begin with?! do they live only on licensing opera mobile for phone manufacturers?
Edit: the answer for the question at the end is Yes. http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2011/01/03/how-does-opera-make-money-aka-our-most-asked-question-ever http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2011/01/03/how-does-ope...
- dubcanada 14y agoAs with Firefox it's mostly search engine related income. They also sell opera mobile to manufacturers. Opera surprisingly has a lot of users in certain areas like east Europe.
- claudius 14y agoGiven that Opera (pre-Chromium, no idea how that turns out) is about the only browser usable on a slow network connection with the others only gradually catching up to server-side compression, caching of websites etc., this shouldn’t be a surprise.
- atesti 14y ago>Google, the monetization is selling the user. So you get features like no-referrer removed (3 or 4 times) from the chromium project by google commits. Do you have a source for that? I'd like to read more about it!
- gcb0 14y agosearch for stackexchange questions on how to change/disable referrer on chrome. you will see several accepted answers of things that do not work anymore. just be sure to search for some years ago. from top of my mind, the command line option. the chorme:network-setting(sic) thing. the compile option flag also, everytime i mention it people ask for source (on this forum where hardly there's time for any discussion!) and once i collected all the commits, but it's on my hell-banned account @gcb. feel free to dig that comment out if you like.