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I bet they get solicited all the time but there aren't many ways to make money on a web browser without ruining the user experience.
by Touche 13y ago
I bet they get solicited all the time but there aren't many ways to make money on a web browser without ruining the user experience.
- rayiner 13y agoYou could just sell a copy, but hey I guess I'm old fashioned thinking selling a product in exchange for money is better than selling eyeballs to advertisers.
- Touche 13y agoYou are old fashioned, even commercial browsers abandoned that strategy years ago.
- mjn 13y agoOut of curiosity, has anyone tried that strategy with any success post-Opera? They're the last I remember to sell significant numbers of copies of a browser. Depending on how you count, that ended in either 2000 (when they introduced a free ad-supported version, though you could still pay for a registered, ad-free version), or 2005 (when the paid version was phased out entirely).
- iSnow 13y agoI guess iCab is the last one still trying (as shareware): http://icab.de/ http://icab.de/
- JetSpiegel 13y agoIt's pretty hard to that and keep the project open-source. If you don't keep it open-source, the amount of bugs to fix will overwhelm you and it will be just a failure.
- abhididdigi 13y agoYou mean like Microsoft?