Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
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Wouldn't people just leave? I feel like that's such an easy thing to do these days. If they are too old, they probably weren't using Chrome anyway and default to edge since its just there. I know not everyone would, but I wonder what the percentage would be in the end. They have been killing it themselves lately with the removal of the blockers. I've been on Firefox for over a decade now. If Firefox did something like this, I would be gone in a day.
People haven't left yet and it's already a data collecting beast. And blocks ad blockers. And so on.
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they know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?
But they wouldn't have the user base, and therefore their data.
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.
We can buy anything with any amount of money.
Startups in 2025.
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Well this is somehow much, much worse than Google
For those who missed it, perplexity is the one happily powering truth social's AI search with their logo front and centre
Remember your browser choices aren't that of everyone you know. Many of them will happily continue with Chrome and may end up looking at a profile of yours or something—just not using it is really not gonna cut it
Goshdarnit, and I was really enjoying perplexity and its relatively low hallucinations and good sourcing of information.
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Wouldn't people just leave? I feel like that's such an easy thing to do these days. If they are too old, they probably weren't using Chrome anyway and default to edge since its just there. I know not everyone would, but I wonder what the percentage would be in the end. They have been killing it themselves lately with the removal of the blockers. I've been on Firefox for over a decade now. If Firefox did something like this, I would be gone in a day.
Mozilla is in a death spiral.
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.
Good thing I haven't used Chrome in so long.
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We can buy anything with any amount of money.
Startups in 2025.
I will never cease to be amazed at how ungodly much cash startups often have.
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It’s bizarre to see how many people and companies don’t see a bubble, it seems so clear to me that yeah, machine learning will continue, but this current iteration isn’t something that people respond well to
Weird comment as this iteration has spawned the fastest growing products of all time. There's no comparison possible with bubbles such as NFTs or the Metaverse.
Financially it's a bubble because those products are grossly unprofitable even by VC standards, but the consumer appeal definitely is there.
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You kidding? Google Chrome has the biggest market share. It’s the window to the internet for many. Control that and you practically control the internet as a platform.
I see you're really enjoying those BIG BLACK DICK videos on GAY PORNHUB. Would you be interested in preventing me from sharing this knowledge? I only ask for 0.01BTC in payment to not inform everyone in your social circle of your PECULIAR TASTES IN PORNOGRAPHY. --perplexity
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with what money
Our taxpayer dollars, since Perplexity is a huge backer of Truth Social
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I see you're really enjoying those BIG BLACK DICK videos on GAY PORNHUB. Would you be interested in preventing me from sharing this knowledge? I only ask for 0.01BTC in payment to not inform everyone in your social circle of your PECULIAR TASTES IN PORNOGRAPHY. --perplexity
Appreciating a nice member is hardly a peculiar taste. They’d have to try much harder to shame me.
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Ai needs data, you’re going to see more of this happening.
AI needs customers. Chrome would become bloated with premium services
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I will never cease to be amazed at how ungodly much cash startups often have.
VC funding, baybeeeee
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.
I offer $1000. That is probably higher than my evaluation. I would remove manifest V3 immediately.
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Goshdarnit, and I was really enjoying perplexity and its relatively low hallucinations and good sourcing of information.
Yea, me too, I got a cheap pro subscription and use it often. It is a fast way to find info for me. But I guess behind the scenes they are tracking us in the worst possible way.
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Well this is somehow much, much worse than Google
For those who missed it, perplexity is the one happily powering truth social's AI search with their logo front and centre
Remember your browser choices aren't that of everyone you know. Many of them will happily continue with Chrome and may end up looking at a profile of yours or something—just not using it is really not gonna cut it
The CEO also said in an interview that he would use Chrome to mine endless amounts of user data. As the dead internet becomes a problem, he wants to use Chrome itself to detect when it’s being used by a human and scrape all the data they produce. I instantly uninstalled the Perplexity app after seeing that.
Sorry I can’t find the link.
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with what money
You might as well ask with what money ANYTHING in ai is getting done right now, because none of it is profitable. It’s investor cash.
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my bad, kinda hard to get it through a text comment.
Don’t feel bad. It looks to me like they made what they thought would be a clever comment but it turned out to be uninformed, and now they are saying “I was just joking.”
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.
Il offer 35 billion considering the entire economy at this point is made up inflated bullshit.
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Well this is somehow much, much worse than Google
For those who missed it, perplexity is the one happily powering truth social's AI search with their logo front and centre
Remember your browser choices aren't that of everyone you know. Many of them will happily continue with Chrome and may end up looking at a profile of yours or something—just not using it is really not gonna cut it
I did some checking around on the web and it seems that the partnership is a standard API license where Perplexity provides the technical infrastructure and Truth Social makes requests to there. The AI does contradict Trump regularly according to the Washington post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/10/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbot-perplexity/
So I'm not sure if this is massively wrong. Or at least, not as bad as I thought it would be.
