What’s wrong with perplexity owning chrome?
Comment on Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month agoI don’t. This is fundamentally worse than Google owning Chrome.
Aquaphobi@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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
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
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
But the Nazi bar still has patrons.