I want to buy chrome for $5.50!
How about you stranger?
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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I'll lower your offer to $1.00
I see your one dollar and I lower it by a cookie and two chicklets!
Oof that's more than twice my value.
Tree fiddy is the only price I'm willing to pay.
I have mixed feeling about this.
I don't. This is fundamentally worse than Google owning Chrome.
I think Chrome inevitably losing a lot of market share could be a pretty good result for the web.
Will it? Twitter is a Nazi bar, but it still has a large customer base.
And nothing of value would be lost when the nazi bar closes down
But the Nazi bar still has patrons.
And they are nazis and i dont care if they lose their place and i dont care of the owner of a nazi bar profits. Evil does not deserve a seat at the table
I'm speaking in context to Sina's comment. Because a company/service becomes shitty doesn't mean that the company/service loses a lot of market share.
What’s wrong with perplexity owning chrome?
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.
Thank you for the insight
Please share
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.
Google is doing/will be doing all this anyway, combined with a search, maps, youtube, email, etc monopoly.
I did list no longer being controlled by Google 🤷🏻♂️
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.
Just imagine, a corporate hellscape inspired by Minority Report!
<buzzlightyearmeme
"Slaves... Slaves everywhere..."
Same
I wonder how large of a bid I should send to Microsoft to buy Windows.
But seriously, if they aren't creating their own, better browser to compete and win over users then there is a problem with the market.
If they have 34.5 billion lying around, why don’t they make a new browser themselves?
Making a new browser is easy. They want to buy a near monopoly over the browser market, not a browser.
Making a new browser is easy.
Then why doesn't anyone else do it? We have only 3 real browsers.
Making a browser is ridiculously hard. Getting people to use it even harder.
Netscape or go home