LCPPerplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
9point6Well 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
The CEO also said in an interview that he would use Chrome to mine endless amounts of user data. As the dead internet becomes a problem, he wants to use Chrome itself to detect when it’s being used by a human and scrape all the data they produce. I instantly uninstalled the Perplexity app after seeing that.
Sorry I can’t find the link.