From: /m 

I paid.  It was worth it to get away from the security fiasco known as Active-X.

Are those google things "ads" or "payments for
referrals".  There's a rather significant difference.

I've never seen an Opera ad in the free version of Opera.

 /m


On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:12:00 -0400, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>I'm with Geo on this ... so I paid.
>
>There are still "ads" btw (well, the revenue has to come from
somewhere)
>... but it's very subtlely done.
>
>http://gigaom.com/2005/09/21/google-made-opera-browser-free/
>
>As the article points out, it's similar to the agrement Google has with
>Firefox.
>
>
>On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:56:56 -0400, Thees Peereboom 
>wrote:
>
>> Geo.
>>
>> Alongside the free version, with ads, they had a paid-for version, too,
>> without advertising. It was the users choice; paying by looking at ads
>> or paying with money.
>>
>> - Thees Peereboom
>>
>> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:30:26 +0200, Geo  wrote:
>>
>>> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
>>> news:op.tc9yyhgcm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>>>
>>>>> No commercials since 8.3 or 8.4 -- try here:
>>> http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?custom=yes
>>>
>>>
>>> When they take the guy who said "hey lets stuff annoying flashing
>>> commercials in the users faces" and take his stuffed
body, put it in the
>>> lobby with a sign around his neck that says "never
again" then I'll try
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Geo.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>

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