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Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

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Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

#41

I dislike tech monopolies but Chrome leaving Google would be most terrible thing ever, security wise. Google has become the benevolent dictator of the web, if you like it or not. We get secure browsers, performance improvements, stable implementations at the cost of one bad feature being shipped a year (like Manifest V3). Mozilla/FOSS community has fucked up Firefox, big time, which is not even their fault as they ca…

> the benevolent dictator of the web

Lol it's more like a death grip since nobody can compete with their ad business model. There is almost no innovation in the browser space outside of more and more tracking ...

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

#42

I get the feeling this Perplexity guy is a mix of SBF the bitcoin dude with the Palantir guy but actually dreams to be early Elon, or a troll. Maybe another another deep state plant? If we really want to go that road.. Either way, how does Perplexity even envisions to become a stable business? Let alone buying the browser with +80% worldwide share.

Their CEO is trash, eff Perplexity.

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

#43

I dislike tech monopolies but Chrome leaving Google would be most terrible thing ever, security wise. Google has become the benevolent dictator of the web, if you like it or not. We get secure browsers, performance improvements, stable implementations at the cost of one bad feature being shipped a year (like Manifest V3). Mozilla/FOSS community has fucked up Firefox, big time, which is not even their fault as they ca…

What's wrong with Firefox? I've used it as my main browser for the best part of 20 years now and have no issues.

The last time I used Chrome there were ads all over the place because the ad blockers don't work properly anymore (I'm guessing because of manifest v3)

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

#45

I get the feeling this Perplexity guy is a mix of SBF the bitcoin dude with the Palantir guy but actually dreams to be early Elon, or a troll. Maybe another another deep state plant? If we really want to go that road.. Either way, how does Perplexity even envisions to become a stable business? Let alone buying the browser with +80% worldwide share.

Getting similar vibe and this performative move reinforces that

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

#46
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With Chrome's market share? 10+ billion a year, certainly, as that would be only 3% of the ad volume. Can google sell, then have Alphabet Holding create Chrome2 based on Chromium, ripping off Perplexity?

Jesus how the fuck does advertising make such ungodly amounts of money.

You need to pay to exist

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

#47
post #41

I dislike tech monopolies but Chrome leaving Google would be most terrible thing ever, security wise. Google has become the benevolent dictator of the web, if you like it or not. We get secure browsers, performance improvements, stable implementations at the cost of one bad feature being shipped a year (like Manifest V3). Mozilla/FOSS community has fucked up Firefox, big time, which is not even their fault as they ca…

> the benevolent dictator of the web Lol it's more like a death grip since nobody can compete with their ad business model. There is almost no innovation in the browser space outside of more and more tracking ...

I'd argue that depends on what you mean by "innovation" -- Google has been pretty busy, meaning specifically developers on their payroll, churning out more or less useful Web API implementations, certainly at a far more frantic pace than people traditionally _blamed_ browsers of yester-decade for. Nevermind that some of these APIs are more haphazardly designed than others, truth be told most of them are okay and are aptly designed so it's not a critical issue (for Web developers or Chrome's market share). Google co-authors most Web standards and implement them often _before_ the "standard" is published (for better and for worse; anti-trust allegations, I am looking at you). But they're not idle, one thing's for sure. Markedly different than how I remember Microsoft resting for months if not years on their IE laurels, like a CO2 blanket in a room that evacuated all the air.

So yeah, how would you describe this lack of innovation you're referring to?

There can always be more innovation that isn't of the sort I described above, but Web _is_ made of Web APIs -- if a website cannot "do" it, you as a user of the site, won't be able to experience it, is my crude opinion. But I'd love to hear examples to the contrary, illustrating innovation that isn't Web APIs.

Removing tab-based browsing (an anti-pattern if you ask me)? Optimizations (speed, size, etc)?

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

#48
post #20
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With Chrome's market share? 10+ billion a year, certainly, as that would be only 3% of the ad volume. Can google sell, then have Alphabet Holding create Chrome2 based on Chromium, ripping off Perplexity?

Jesus how the fuck does advertising make such ungodly amounts of money.

Try putting food on the table without advertising your business. How much does your employer pay for ads?

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

#50
Hard to understand whether this is a positive or negative. Chrome is trampling the internet in favor of Google. Will Perplexity just make Chrome even worse than it is, or will they degrade Chrome's market share through incompetence? More competition in the browser space would be welcome, but I'm not optimistic.
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