OpenAI would love to own Chrome, and it’s allegedly not alone.
  • rippersnapper@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    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.

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      9 hours ago

      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.

      • TON618@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        I like to think if people want whatever it is OpenAI thinks browsers need AI for, the userbase will manifest itself.

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    8 hours ago

    And if you thought there was some natural end point to enshittification, here’s your evidence that there’s no such thing.

  • neclimdul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    14 hours ago

    Great! Now not only can chrome eat all my system memory, it can use all my GPU memory at the same time! It’s genius!

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Likely it’ll use the cloud for processing, you’ll just get really hard-to-opt-out AI features, like “prompt by default” and “AI autocomplete”, which you can only “snooze” as they’ll automatically be turned back on the moment there’s a “great new feature”, like putting a filter on by default on image generators to fool the eye that it’s made by real artists.

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    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.