Im not sure I understand their business model. I don’t see any paid offering on their website

newscombinatorY 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Took 2 seconds to startpage* this: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

*screw Google and their AI search

	▲	dgellow 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Guess I’m blind, I somehow missed it… thanks! So the answer seems to be: - search partnerships - direct match partnerships - bookmarks partnerships - donation - cut when people sign up for advertised products (proton vpn, not sure if others) Or at least that was the case in 2019

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zamadatix 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Search engine deals are HUGE for browsers. They're e.g. what has funded Mozilla with many billions over the last 20 years. Mozilla has tried to diversify but everything else has pales in comparison (and the donations are basically a joke).

It scales up with usage as well. Not that Safari needed funding, but Google pays Apple upwards of $20,000,000,000 per year for the privilege of being the default for that user base.

	▲	phs318u 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A lot of people might think $20B is a lot to pay. But search (and “other”) account for over half (>$200B) the of Alphabet’s total revenue from all sources. It’s still a bargain when you consider how few people bother to (or are even aware of the possibility of) changing their default browser. https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/googl/metrics/revenue-by-se...

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