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.
What’s wrong with perplexity owning chrome?
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.
Thank you for the insight