Chrome | Would be sell it?
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If Chrome is sold to another company or companies group, it would be a good advance for all.
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@Gwen-Dragon
Yes,
That will be better.Will see how deep and long it goes.
And what kind of is upon the Company, a one, will be the same. -
@Zalex108 , I think it would be better, as Gwen says, to make Chromium independent, since with the sale of Chrome it is not known in which hands it ends up and what will happen to the entire infrastructure of the Store and others. With Google we already know what practices we face, but not those of a supposed buyer (see Opera)
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In another article, days ago, read about the Chrome Monopoly would force on Web Standards for their own, so despite it seems just related to Ads and Chrome, that point would be good if they focuses also on it.
If considered, it would partly moderate the development side.
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@Gwen-Dragon I think this is the key part of the linked article:
"In this new lawsuit, the DOJ referenced Google’s search agreement with Mozilla as one example of Google’s monopolization of the search engine market in the United States."
And here's an except from the "What’s Vivaldi’s business model?" article.
"Vivaldi generates revenue from partner deals with search engines. Every time you search using one of the pre-installed search engines, you’re helping us grow, one search at a time."
See the problem folks? If the courts stop search-engines from giving browsers money, who pays the bills to develop Vivaldi?
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@Eggcorn , companies pay Vivaldi to include links and search engines by default and naturally pay also when the user uses them. That is, it charges anyway for each user that Vivaldi uses, regardless of whether the user uses the default search engines and bookmarks or not, so it is important for Vivaldi to expand the number of users. Also with Vivaldi Store sales in T-shirts, caps, etc.
Vivaldi under no circumstances makes money from user data, as others do (Chrome, Edge, Opera, etc.) -
@Catweazle I've been meaning to get some shirts from the store, but I've never gotten around to it.
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@Catweazle said in Chrome | Would be sell it?:
whether the user uses the default search engines and bookmarks or not
Not exactly. If you don't use the default shortcut for the search, the search provider has no idea that the search was launched from Vivaldi. The default shortcut is NOT a direct shortcut to the search engine, but passes thru a server that tells the provider what browser launched the request.
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