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many of you will be too young to remember this but popular web browsing

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software actually used to cost money in

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fact it wasn't until 1998 that netscape navigator became free to use for regular

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consumers but almost no one pays for web browsers

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anymore so why are the companies that developed them giving them out for

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nothing do they just hate money of course not web browsers are actually

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monetized quite heavily and do make money it's just that it's not always

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obvious to an end user how that happens so let's take a look at how some of the

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popular browsers keep themselves afloat starting with the biggest one of them

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all google chrome it turns out that development of the world's most popular

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web browser is easily supported by the things that it merely encourages its

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users to do for example chrome's search feature automatically uses google as

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your search engine which invariably will serve you the ads that make up a huge

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part of google's revenue oh and by the way this is very similar to how

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microsoft's edge browser makes money as well only by directing people to

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microsoft's bing search engine and its advertisements instead and then once you

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click off of google search page many of the ads that you see throughout the web

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are also hosted by google so the idea is

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that it makes sense for google to build and maintain a browser that gets people

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on the web and just browsing which will lead them to look at

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google's ads it also doesn't hurt that chrome steers users towards using

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google's own suite of apps such as gmail google drive and google maps some of

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which are ad supported while others offer paid versions for extra

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functionality such as more storage space but did you know that google actually

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pays to prop up competing web browsers

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how does that make any sense well just as google aims to use chrome to direct

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users to its services it also tries to get other browsers to do the same thing

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mozilla firefox is a great example of this google has made multiple deals with

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mozilla over the years to make google firefox's default search engine in

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certain markets other search engines such as yandex and

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baidu have also contributed large amounts of money to mozilla's coffers

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which has become quite important for firefox's survival as its usage share

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has been declining for a number of years although mozilla still operates as a

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non-profit and does still receive contributions from folks who just

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feel like donating the vast majority of its income now comes from search engine

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royalties similarly apple's safari gets

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quite hefty royalties from google even more than firefox while firefox got a

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little over half a billion dollars in royalties in 2017 google made a deal to

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pay apple 12 billion dollars in 2019 to make sure

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that google would stay safari's default search service and although it seems

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strange since google and apple compete directly in other areas such as in

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smartphones google apparently makes way more than its payments to apple on the

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increased ad revenue that it gets back to take things in a slightly different

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direction let's have a quick look at the brave browser known for its focus on

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user privacy although the way they do it is a bit unique in that it's based

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around a cryptocurrency called the basic attention token or bat users can opt in

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to a rewards program that will pay them in bat for viewing ads with 70 of the

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revenue going to users and the other 30 percent going to the developers of brave

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we'd be remiss too if we didn't also mention opera a browser that still has a

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substantial cult following in addition to the aforementioned search engine

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royalties they also have deals with sites like ebay to get placed on a

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user's main speed dial page and have partnered with smartphone manufacturers

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like xiaomi to pre-install the browser on their devices and then there was also

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a recent scandal where it appeared that opera was using apps in certain

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countries to offer predatory loans with absurdly high interest rates so the bad

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news is they've used up a fair bit of their goodwill and they may not be a

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popular browser for much longer although the good news is that they're gaining

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valuable experience in the industry of loan sharking so they could always

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survive by offering student loans since

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