Advertising, search partnerships, premium subscriptions afaik.
These things can be found public:
- Opera https://investor.opera.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
- Mozilla (largely funded by google) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
- Brave https://brave.com/blog/100m-mau/ (ads, search api, premium subscription, and their crypto thing)
- Browser company: not sure, I think they have a subscription, but I assume they still mostly run on VC money.
Chrome, Safari, and Edge are funded by their parent companies. I believe Google does also pay Apple $20B to be the default search engine on Safari and ios.
So you could make an argument that Google pays for browsers. A lot of browsers run on Chromium, owned and funded by Google (although technically open source). Except Apple and Mozilla who get search money from Google.
These things can be found public:
- Opera https://investor.opera.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
- Mozilla (largely funded by google) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
- Brave https://brave.com/blog/100m-mau/ (ads, search api, premium subscription, and their crypto thing)
- Browser company: not sure, I think they have a subscription, but I assume they still mostly run on VC money.
Chrome, Safari, and Edge are funded by their parent companies. I believe Google does also pay Apple $20B to be the default search engine on Safari and ios.
So you could make an argument that Google pays for browsers. A lot of browsers run on Chromium, owned and funded by Google (although technically open source). Except Apple and Mozilla who get search money from Google.