Well this is somehow much, much worse than Google

For those who missed it, perplexity is the one happily powering truth social’s AI search with their logo front and centre

Remember your browser choices aren’t that of everyone you know. Many of them will happily continue with Chrome and may end up looking at a profile of yours or something—just not using it is really not gonna cut it

We can buy anything with any amount of money.

Startups in 2025.

I offer $1000. That is probably higher than my evaluation. I would remove manifest V3 immediately.

lol this number makes no sense. Minecraft was worth 4 billion a decade ago. Chrome is worth way more than 34

Good play to suck up data. I wonder if OpenAI, Palantir and others will bid too. Might be brilliant for Nvidia.

AI startup Perplexity has offered Google $34.5 billion to buy the Chrome browser. The price might be below evaluation, but the company may be forced to sell the browser at the request of U.S. authorities as part of a case in which it was found guilty of being a monopoly.

https://x.com/80Level/status/1955488788861555082

Might as well be wanting all that juicy personal information from which to mine not only for profit but also for sending a SWAT team through the door without a court order and a search warrant. Or, sending a Hellfire missile through a window of a house somewhere in Pakistan.

Good thing I haven’t used Chrome in so long.

How… perplexing!

Il offer 35 billion considering the entire economy at this point is made up inflated bullshit.

Wouldn’t people just leave? I feel like that’s such an easy thing to do these days. If they are too old, they probably weren’t using Chrome anyway and default to edge since its just there. I know not everyone would, but I wonder what the percentage would be in the end. They have been killing it themselves lately with the removal of the blockers. I’ve been on Firefox for over a decade now. If Firefox did something like this, I would be gone in a day.