• HobbitFoot
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    7 months ago

    I don’t. This is fundamentally worse than Google owning Chrome.

    • Sina@beehaw.org
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      7 months ago

      I think Chrome inevitably losing a lot of market share could be a pretty good result for the web.

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        7 months ago

        Will it? Twitter is a Nazi bar, but it still has a large customer base.

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              7 months ago

              And they are nazis and i dont care if they lose their place and i dont care of the owner of a nazi bar profits. Evil does not deserve a seat at the table

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                7 months ago

                I’m speaking in context to Sina’s comment. Because a company/service becomes shitty doesn’t mean that the company/service loses a lot of market share.

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        7 months ago

        The reason to own a browser is to shape the Internet to your company’s favor.

        Internet Explorer was designed to ensure web apps would be hard to build, helping to ensure the Windows monopoly.

        Chrome was designed to open the Internet, but tie it to Google search and keep Internet browsing lucrative for advertising, helping to benefit Ad Sense.

        An AI startup owning Chrome is probably going to be the biggest privacy nightmare since Copilot.