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The Safari homepage cross promotes.

The IE home page cross promotes and/or has paid advertising (depending on your market).

Even Firefox has done cross promotion occasionally.

I don't use Opera often, but I don't think I've seen advertising on their dial-page thing.

Is there some critical distinction I'm missing?

I remember Firefox also had Thunderbird ads on it's homepage at some point. Google could have done much worse imo.