Re:Adblock Plus for Opera
by e12e on Thursday November 15, 2012 @08:29AM
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Well, two big browsers most people do pay for: Safari and Internet Explorer. But they come "free" with the OS of course.
Similarly you pay (indirectly) for Opera on a few platforms.
Chrome isn't really free either - I assume Google uses all that data to build a profile in order to better sell (better?) ads -- still their main source of revenue AFAIK.
So that leaves Firefox, Opera (for *nix/OS X/MS Windows) and a few minor browsers as truly free. I suppose you could add IE to that list, if you run it under wine. And possibly Safari for windows if that still exists?
Similarly you pay (indirectly) for Opera on a few platforms.
Chrome isn't really free either - I assume Google uses all that data to build a profile in order to better sell (better?) ads -- still their main source of revenue AFAIK.
So that leaves Firefox, Opera (for *nix/OS X/MS Windows) and a few minor browsers as truly free. I suppose you could add IE to that list, if you run it under wine. And possibly Safari for windows if that still exists?