Comment on Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value

• Sina@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think Chrome inevitably losing a lot of market share could be a pretty good result for the web.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Will it? Twitter is a Nazi bar, but it still has a large customer base.

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    • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And nothing of value would be lost when the nazi bar closes down

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      • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But the Nazi bar still has patrons.

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• Aquaphobi@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with perplexity owning chrome?

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • Aquaphobi@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you for the insight

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