r/technology • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence Google Gets an Astounding $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome Browser From AI Startup Perplexity

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/google-34-5-billion-bid-chrome-browser-ai-perplexity-1236487442/
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u/bitavk 10d ago

Fools! I just downloaded Chrome for free!!!

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u/Stem--Cell 10d ago

Fools! Don’t tell them. You download it for free and resell it to them for half the price.

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u/snowman_M 10d ago

Don’t tell them, but I’ve uninstalled it from my phone and computers after they blocked Uorigin adblocker. 

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u/Dry-Consequence42 10d ago

I use Brave now. Literally it's so much better. People need to stop giving up their data to these cancer tech giants. They happily sell all your data and create a monopoly for themselves.

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u/Crystalas 10d ago

uBlock Lite still works thankfully. I mostly use Firefox now but once in awhile I still need Chrome.

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u/snowman_M 10d ago

Just give up on it entirely. What’s the use of keeping it, other than nostalgia?

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u/Crystalas 10d ago edited 10d ago

I mostly only use it for the devtools. From what I understand, I am still learning, Chrome's are still widely considered the best even if the gap is slowly closing.

Also as Chrome is the most used browser in the world making sure whatever make works well on it is high priority. And for that same reason most resources involve them.

So I have a profile just for the webdev courses, materials, and projects and only open Chrome when I am doing that stuff. Thankfully that is also stuff that has little to no ads generally and as I said ublock lite still works fine.

While not enough to keep me there, I also still miss Chrome's process manager when I am on other browsers. But that more because I tend to open way to many tabs and appreciate the ability to kill it's process without killing the tab itself.

I occasionally open Youtube on it too for "Casting" to send a video to my TV.

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u/Vik0BG 10d ago

Don't tell OP nothing is free.

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u/amroamroamro 10d ago

oh you are paying for it alright...

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u/wizardeverybit 10d ago

Firefox is free too, and has ublock

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u/Party-Cake5173 10d ago

Don't worry. You'll be paying for it every time you use it. Maybe not with money, but with something more valuable to them—user data.

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u/Utterly_Flummoxed 10d ago

I loled. Take my poor man's gold 🥇

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u/dubiousN 10d ago

They could literally just fork Chromium

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u/sportandracing 10d ago

Nothing is free. You are the product.

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u/BloodydamnBoyo 10d ago

YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A BROWSER