What’s Vivaldi’s business model?

aaronmeder

Interesting article, thank you Christian.

I wonder however how the financial situation of Vivaldi looks at the moment. Is it already a profitable company or if not, then not by what margin? Do you disclose any information about this?

I find the path of using bookmark and searches partners a good way to earn revenue...but somehow I would be surprised if that actually covers the ongoing cost of investment that goes into a browser and company of your size.

Would be nice to have some feedback on it

kimbooyork

@verbovet seconding this, I only ever shop 'zon using the "smile.amazon.com" address

marianodaniel

What can I say? I have always loved you and always will.

yigit

That's why we use and love Vivaldi.

I think Vivaldi should accept donations or introduce a monthly subscription model (paid membership doesn't necessarily have extra features). These will help the team to develop more powerful Vivaldi products much easier.

ruben1034

Now I feel bad for using Google . From now I'm gonna start using ecosia

dmace

@wildchild85 said:

Now I feel bad for searching with google.

@wildchild85:
I use Ecosia when I don't use Google. Ecosia is based on so it's not the best but it plants trees and it supports Vivaldi. And when I have a precise technical research to do, I use the shortcut "g " for searching with google...

marcusquinn

Nice, appreciate the transparency. How about a button in the settings to restore or update your Startpage Bookmarks for those of us that deleted and not feel guilty?

Pesala

@marcusquinn Welcome to the Community. Here are a few links for your bookmarks that you may find useful:

Reinstall Vivaldi as a standalone version, and import the bookmarks from that.

Snapshot vs Stable

Install the Snapshot as a Standalone Version so that it does not interfere with your settings for the Stable release.

jofazepa

@OlgaA what do you, and Vivaldi, think about web monetization approaches like coil.com?

nellaiseemai

What if we use !google on duckduckgo to search on google? I always use bing though and google is always there with the key "g" on vivaldi.

sigitas

After reading this, i have switched search engine from google to bing.

Dancer18

I like this model very much. Working with Vivaldi give me a similar good feeling like when I changed my OS from Windows to Linux.