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Comment on Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value
Hirom@beehaw.org 1 month ago
I have mixed feeling about this.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 month ago
Please share
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Turning the most popular browser further into an AI hellscape.
Influencing how every other browser (minus Firefox’s minuscule marketshare) functions via the engine.
On the other hand, no longer under googles control.
anachronist@midwest.social 1 month ago
Google is doing/will be doing all this anyway, combined with a search, maps, youtube, email, etc monopoly.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 month ago
I did list no longer being controlled by Google 🤷🏻♂️
SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
In order to better understand the user, their prompts, etc and to be able to fully modify websites, these AIs need access to the DOM.
This is made much more easier if you integrate your AI to a browser.
So, in theory, the AI could understand what your are currently researching, profile your interest, and provide you answers before you even made a prompt.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Just imagine, a corporate hellscape inspired by Minority Report!
<buzzlightyear.meme>
SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
“Slaves… Slaves everywhere…”
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
I don’t. This is fundamentally worse than Google owning Chrome.
Sina@beehaw.org 1 month ago
I think Chrome inevitably losing a lot of market share could be a pretty good result for the web.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Will it? Twitter is a Nazi bar, but it still has a large customer base.
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 1 month ago
And nothing of value would be lost when the nazi bar closes down
Aquaphobi@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
What’s wrong with perplexity owning chrome?
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
The reason to own a browser is to shape the Internet to your company’s favor.
Internet Explorer was designed to ensure web apps would be hard to build, helping to ensure the Windows monopoly.
Chrome was designed to open the Internet, but tie it to Google search and keep Internet browsing lucrative for advertising, helping to benefit Ad Sense.
An AI startup owning Chrome is probably going to be the biggest privacy nightmare since Copilot.
Aquaphobi@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Thank you for the insight