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minus-squarenooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·3 days agoHow does chrome make money? It uses ads from Google, chrome on it’s own is not a business. Say you buy chrome, you have to options Ads built into chrome itself (when you’re in the settings menu, homepage, reading a PDF, playing the dino game) Force your own default search engine, or get a company like Google or Bing to pay you for the privilege of being a default search engine. Neither of these options are better than the status quo
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How does chrome make money? It uses ads from Google, chrome on it’s own is not a business.
Say you buy chrome, you have to options
Ads built into chrome itself (when you’re in the settings menu, homepage, reading a PDF, playing the dino game)
Force your own default search engine, or get a company like Google or Bing to pay you for the privilege of being a default search engine.
Neither of these options are better than the status quo