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Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value (9to5google.com)
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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I have mixed feeling about this.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I don't. This is fundamentally worse than Google owning Chrome.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    But the Nazi bar still has patrons.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    What’s wrong with perplexity owning chrome?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Please share

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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