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Good thing I’ve never used the garbage that is chrome or chatgpt 👍

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I’ve said this before and will say it again. The only tech companies that should be allowed to buy Chrome are Canonical and its equivalents.

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Isn’t Canonical up to some crummy schemes, too?

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Sure but not by at least an order of magnitude

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How the fuck would this be more cost effective than them making their own chrome based browser and not be a demonstration of their over inflated operating costs and company valuation?

If you are paying for a service that is charging you enough to allow them to buy the most widly used browser from a company whose business model is to monopolize data, then maybe you’re paying them a titbit more than what the service they’re providing is worth.

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I’m sure they’re less interested about buying Chrome than they are about buying Chrome’s market share

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Chrome’s user data.

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The sheer market share that forces websites develop for chrome for maximum visibility, to force websites to allow their content to be scraped to be usable by the average user.

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What allows them to buy chrome is ridiculous investment money, not what they’re charging. From what I read, I think they’re still running a loss because required processing power is still just so insanely ridiculous for AI.

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WTF? Just download it for free.

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Are these fucks stupid? Chromium is open sourced. They can do it themselves

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They don’t want to buy the browser. They want to buy the brand and the users. Chrome makes up over half the browser market. Think of all the data they could extract from Chrome users. It would cost significantly more to fork chromium and grow the user base to a point where they could extract anything valuable from them, and that’s assuming they’d be successful enough to make it happen.

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There is no way Google would sell Chrome. But you can bet at least a thousand engineers are working on bolting Gemini onto it right now.

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There’s no way Google would voluntarily sell Chrome. Unfortunately for them, they might be forced to sell Chrome.

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Suuuuure

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No, MS just wants to expand their monopoly, but “MS buying most common browser, after antitrust laws already forbid internet explorer” doesnt ring so well.

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I suspect Altman has ambitions beyond being Microsoft’s cat’s paw, though it may be that that’s all he really is once the shouting is over.

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Existing userbase

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