OpenAI would love to own Chrome, and it’s allegedly not alone.
  • 11111one11111@lemmy.worldEnglish
    344·
    23 days 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.

    • MysticKetchup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      64·
      23 days ago

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

        • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          23 days ago

          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.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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      23 days ago

      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.

  • neclimdul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    23 days 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
      4·
      23 days 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.

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    23 days ago

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

  • sucrerey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    19 days ago

    we had an intern ask AI what it could to to completely enshittify the browser. the AI simply responded, “put me in coach!”

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    22 days ago

    When a company considers buying Chrome because it could help them extend the reach of their product, they are fucking drunk and need to go home. This would be like buying the state of Nevada so you could put up billboards all over Las Vegas.

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
      12·
      23 days ago

      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.

      • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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        21 days ago

        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.

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      52·
      23 days 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.

  • uawarebrah@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    23 days ago

    This can’t happen. Not because I think google is doing a wonderful job, but it’s got serious market share now. Basically a monopoly. It needs to leave the hands of for profit companies and be transitioned to a foundation.