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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

serious question: how does opera (the company) make money?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

originally? a paid product. now? crypto!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Partner integrations from what I know - search engines, bookmarks and so on.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Partner integration? You mean a partner of them pays them to be allowed to look at your browsing habits?

Did opera leave Norway? Is this stuff worse after that, if they left? What country did they go to?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Zhou Yahui (Chinese: 周亚辉; born February 1977) is a Chinese billionaire and entrepreneur. In 2008, he founded Kunlun Tech Co Ltd (formerly Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd) one of the largest web game developers in China, where he was the chairman and CEO until 2020. Yahui Zhou currently serves as chairman and co-CEO of Opera. His estimated net worth is US$2.2 billion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Treat it however you want - from what I know even Mozilla has the same arrangement with Google and Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait, so you are saying that being open source and having a default search engine is the same as being both proprietary and being owned by a Chinese owner?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I'm saying that the sources of income are the same regardless of what the company structure or the software licence is.