75
OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience
(arstechnica.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
75 points (100.0% liked)
technology
23753 readers
214 users here now
On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020
- Ways to run Microsoft/Adobe and more on Linux
- The Ultimate FOSS Guide For Android
- Great libre software on Windows
- Hey you, the lib still using Chrome. Read this post!
Rules:
- 1. Obviously abide by the sitewide code of conduct. Bigotry will be met with an immediate ban
- 2. This community is about technology. Offtopic is permitted as long as it is kept in the comment sections
- 3. Although this is not /c/libre, FOSS related posting is tolerated, and even welcome in the case of effort posts
- 4. We believe technology should be liberating. As such, avoid promoting proprietary and/or bourgeois technology
- 5. Explanatory posts to correct the potential mistakes a comrade made in a post of their own are allowed, as long as they remain respectful
- 6. No crypto (Bitcoin, NFT, etc.) speculation, unless it is purely informative and not too cringe
- 7. Absolutely no tech bro shit. If you have a good opinion of Silicon Valley billionaires please manifest yourself so we can ban you.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Why not fork their own browser?
They buy all couple billion existing users as well, and the stronger branding of Chrome
This is the answer, but unless they want to be a browser company (not impossible) I doubt they will maintain it as well as Google. Likewise, Chrome was a loss leader designed to funnel users into Google's profitable ventures of advertising and search, but apparently OpenAI does not have a profitable sector whatsoever.
Mitigating factor: OpenAI leverages its ownership of Chrome to funnel users into Bing for money.
I think OpenAI is creating their own search, that's probably the end goal to make that the default on Chrome and have chatgpt as a default extension too
Know a guy that didn't even know what Firefox was a few years ago when I asked why he was still using Chrome.
Did this person wake up from a coma and completely skip the 00’s?
He is in his late 40s and still really into stoner culture so kind of. Also the biggest blue MAGA I personally know, I remember joking about Hillary running again and he gave an non-ironic "Hell yeah".
Late 40s and stoner culture checks out. I’m happy to be part of the generation that uses weed as a crutch, not a personality lol.
Because it's a stock price grift and forking a browser doesn't juice the line like announcing you might buy the browser used by 65% of the world at sell-off prices due to a monopoly ruling. They won't buy it. And even if they did all that would happen is that it would immeadiately hemorrage users to its competitors because people use Chrome because it's a Google default, not some weird increasingly broken AI niche thing that the company can't even afford to run.