Re:Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe brow...
by coldtea on Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:33PM
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>Browsers don't make money at all, not directly, as you know.
Which is neither here, not there. As I wrote those three browsers don't make money off of ad revenue and/or private data. Chrome does.
Whether the money are made directly or indirectly is beside the point for the purposes of the discussion.
>Microsoft pulls in 11 figures a year in online advertising revenue. As of earlier this year, Apple was still earning more mobile ad revenue than any other firm. And Mozilla is funded almost entirely by companies that earn billions in online ad revenue like Yahoo and Google.
Not that relevant either. Apple sells display ads (iAds etc) and that's it. They don't deal in personal data. Mozilla even less -- whether Yahoo/Google pays it to be the default search engine or not.
Re:Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe brow...
by cromwellian on Thursday October 22, 2015 @03:48PM
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Apple sells targeted advertising and their T&C say they may use data for targeting.
Microsoft pulls in 11 figures a year in online advertising revenue. As of earlier this year, Apple was still earning more mobile ad revenue than any other firm. And Mozilla is funded almost entirely by companies that earn billions in online ad revenue like Yahoo and Google.