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Anonymous No.106236697 >>106236744 >>106236772 >>106237095 >>106237122 >>106237140 >>106237207 >>106237272 >>106237333 >>106237348 >>106237852 >>106237922 >>106238129 >>106238196 >>106238258 >>106238264 >>106239429 >>106239440 >>106239684 >>106243646 >>106244211 >>106245040 >>106249441 >>106251591
Perplexity Offers $34.5 Billion for Google Chrome
Is this good or bad?
Perplexity is valued at 18 billion btw.
Anonymous No.106236744 >>106237786 >>106239572 >>106250687
>>106236697 (OP)
I would have to stop using Google services entirely if this happened.
Anonymous No.106236745 >>106236764
From being owned by a company who does AI, to being owned by a company whose main product is AI.
Anonymous No.106236758 >>106236784 >>106237862
I wonder how this would affect downstream Chromium browsers, and there are a lot of them.
Anonymous No.106236764
>>106236745
Not even. They are just a wrapper.
Anonymous No.106236772 >>106237877 >>106238258 >>106238387 >>106241659 >>106244180
>>106236697 (OP)
Firefox won if this happens.
Anonymous No.106236778 >>106239969 >>106249403
How much are they willing to pay Firefox annually to keep the fake competition?
Anonymous No.106236784
>>106236758
total death hopefully for maximum blow out from this retardation. Unironically the web is fucked if they actually force this antitrust bullshit through.
Anonymous No.106236785 >>106237075 >>106239083
Why don't they just buy Brave? Brave already is a spyware browser.
Anonymous No.106236789 >>106236803 >>106236805 >>106236832
Have you ever woken up and decided to spend twice as much money as you have?
Anonymous No.106236803
>>106236789
Literally 80% of americans do this since the invention of the credit card.
Anonymous No.106236805
>>106236789
every single day.
Anonymous No.106236832 >>106237121 >>106237498 >>106238489 >>106239360 >>106239595 >>106243250
>>106236789
You might want to sit down for this...
Anonymous No.106237075
>>106236785
because chrome has a user count in the billions, and brave has to astroturf /g/

honestly, even if it has exactly 0% chance of happening, this is brilliant PR. the stones on those fuckers lol.
Anonymous No.106237095
>>106236697 (OP)
>pajeet invents a new form of getting rich in one hour: aggressive takeover using others money
America 2025 is a clownshow.
Anonymous No.106237121 >>106237960 >>106238179
>>106236832
why arent people immediately fleeing japan
holy shit
Anonymous No.106237122
>>106236697 (OP)
>Is this good or bad?
>Perplexity is valued at 18 billion btw.
idk, but i wanna know who is financing perplexity
theyre the ones in control
Anonymous No.106237140 >>106237158
>>106236697 (OP)
>buy a massive monopoly and backdoor access into people's browsing habits for less than the ABK purchase
>using inflated stocks
The rabbi actually in charge of the company must be salivating.
Anonymous No.106237158
>>106237140
theres always one involved somewhere in the process
Anonymous No.106237207 >>106237356
>>106236697 (OP)
well, if OpenAI is valued at $500 billion, and Twitter was $44B, I'd suggest the actual Internet gateway for some 70% of users is maybe worth many multiples of $35B. Google/Alpha should just split before accepting nonsensical bids like this. From companies who can't afford the offer price.
Anonymous No.106237272 >>106237314
>>106236697 (OP)
indian excellence in action
Anonymous No.106237314
>>106237272
Make better product.
Anonymous No.106237333 >>106238112 >>106238133
>>106236697 (OP)
Why isn't anyone asking the real question here: why does this jeet want to buy software that is 99% open source? Why not fork it, like everyone else?
Anonymous No.106237348 >>106244225
>>106236697 (OP)
>Perplexity is valued at 18 billion btw.

Wait until the investors understand it is just a wrapper around the LLMs companies who actually create AI stuff.
Anonymous No.106237356 >>106237786 >>106237834
>>106237207
could someone debtmaxxx and buy the entire internet?
Anonymous No.106237498 >>106243405
>>106236832
>external debt of france and uk
typos?
Anonymous No.106237548 >>106249592
Let me guess: they want to build a botnet of scrapers, distributed globally across consumer and commercial IP addresses. They'll just share a bit of "diagnostic" information about web pages that you visit, especially for ones that have robust scraper protections.
Anonymous No.106237786 >>106237938
>>106236744
everyone will abandon chrome

>>106237356
not all of the internet is worth money. only value gained here is inflating share prices of various businesses so they can be traded for a profit and to hedge against. they could buy a browser for whatever billions of dollars but they also need to get that money back. and they won't because people will abandon chrome at light speed.
Anonymous No.106237834
>>106237356
I feel like there is a universe where OpenAI makes an offer to Apple for 40 billion + partnership just because Apple gives up on making its own AI. Tim Cook is old and wants to step down and Sam Altman is hungry and would love to run Apple and then use the App Store abusively to ruin and destroy Elon Musk until he hangs himself in a Bahamas Hilton.
Anonymous No.106237852
>>106236697 (OP)
It's crazy to me how things get valued in tech sometimes. Chrome belongs in a dumpster, not with a $34 billion price tag on it.
Anonymous No.106237862
>>106236758
>downstream Chromium browsers
It's Chrome that's downstream from Chromium, afaik.
Anonymous No.106237877
>>106236772
lol
Anonymous No.106237922
>>106236697 (OP)
They should spin off Chrome into a non-profit...
Anonymous No.106237938 >>106238201
>>106237786
I am talking about abandoning the web entirely.
Anonymous No.106237960
>>106237121
the people save money, the government spends it. really seems like a better arrangement than some of the others
Anonymous No.106238000 >>106238014 >>106239886
what's perplexity?
Anonymous No.106238014 >>106238027 >>106238172
>>106238000
it's like bewilderment
Anonymous No.106238027 >>106238157
>>106238014
well i know what the dictionary word means
Anonymous No.106238112 >>106238153 >>106238349 >>106247386
>>106237333
They want the users, not the browser code.

Perplexity is constantly evading every single scraper protection known to man. They fake user agents, they use undisclosed IP blocks, they ignore robots.txt and so on. Whatever they can do to scrape the Internet, they will do.

Now, imagine if a company desperate to scrape the Internet had access to >60% of computers browsing the Internet.
Anonymous No.106238129
>>106236697 (OP)
It's good because they'll drive it into the ground
Anonymous No.106238133
>>106237333
You are not buying the software, you are buying the built in userbase.
Anonymous No.106238153 >>106238217
>>106238112
It's not as if Chrome isn't monitoring everything you do already, it wouldn't make a difference in that regard, and it's already the Internet Explorer of modern browsers. Only thing it will do is make people realize how shit Chrome is and alternate browsers would gain an extra 1-2% user share (they'll never get more on account of Google giving fuck ass huge popupes saying USE CHROME FOR THE SITE TO WORK BEST on any google owned site).
Anonymous No.106238157
>>106238027
oh some ai company apparently
sheeeit
I guess they are really eating the world
Anonymous No.106238172
>>106238014
its like when your net worth, assuming you sold everything, clothes, house, car, wife, kids +max achievable loan debt, is $500k, total. BUT you still spend all day doorstepping $500B properties making unsolicited $50B offers.
The Way of the Jeet is Perplexing. And its stock scam form is called 'Perplexity'. Its the overwhelming feeling their investors will share afterwards.
Anonymous No.106238179 >>106238489
>>106237121
To go where nigger? The global economy is all fake, gay and debt based. There is no escape.
Anonymous No.106238196 >>106243405
>>106236697 (OP)
> that offer
> that pic
Yeah I'm sure it's a real offer.
Anonymous No.106238201 >>106238398
>>106237938
you can. the internet is made up of many different protocols for communication. pick a port, any port, write your spec, start shitting out packets from that port conforming to your spec.. and congratulations! you now have your own protocol to make a new internet.
Anonymous No.106238217 >>106238255 >>106238390
>>106238153
AFAIK, Google's Gemini scraping respects robots.txt.

Perplexity doesn't respect robots.txt, fakes its user agent if blocked, rotates IP addresses if blocked and so on.
Anonymous No.106238255 >>106238286
>>106238217
i think anons should seriously consider not respecting their bandwidth and sending them terabytes per second of random nonsense. i would keep it up for so long that even cloudflare would start waving the white flag and disconnect them.
Anonymous No.106238258
>>106236772
this
>>106236697 (OP)
Yes, please, God, let this happen. Then Chrome will become a dumpster fire and a firefox clone will take its place.
Anonymous No.106238264 >>106238291
>>106236697 (OP)
>Chrome is no longer Google property
>Google can't ban me for using ad blockers in my Chrome
Nice.
Anonymous No.106238286 >>106238309 >>106239479
>>106238255
Cloudflare is the one calling out Perplexity for their bullshit.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

If you use Cloudflare on your site, even the free version, it can block even Perplexity's stealth scraper.
Anonymous No.106238291 >>106238347 >>106238602
>>106238264
> all your personal information is used to train ai bots
> your payment: $0
i wish you all the best with your crippling down syndrome.
Anonymous No.106238309
>>106238286
oh! that's encouraging. wasn't aware of that drama.
Anonymous No.106238347
>>106238291
Wait, Google pays its customers for that?
Anonymous No.106238349 >>106238393 >>106238586
>>106238112
>Now, imagine if a company desperate to scrape the Internet had access to >60% of computers browsing the Internet.
No-one is willingly and knowingly, sharing their world with jeet central. If Chromes share was 15% after a year of these guppies, I'd be surprised. Obv. still valuable af, but a well-squeezed lemon is still inevitably approaching worthlessness. The only useful thing all this teaches us - Google have the market share, the hardware and the brains to come out #1 in the AI race, if they can duck legislators. But, do they have the will?
Anonymous No.106238387 >>106240352 >>106240750 >>106246858 >>106249403 >>106250490
>>106236772
How so? Most of their budget comes from Google, which would no longer have reason to pay them if Chrome was no longer part of Google.
Anonymous No.106238390 >>106249245
>>106238217
Malicious bots bypassing robots.txt already happened 20+ years ago, this is nothing new.
Anonymous No.106238393 >>106238623
>>106238349
I think Google's "problem" is that they're actually a well-known company with their core business outside of AI. They can't just break all kinds of laws just to scrape as much of the Internet, since it might fuck up their other businesses. The ones that actually make their money.

Meanwhile Perplexity has no other business than AI. They have significantly less downside to scraping whatever shit they can find, since the company might be doomed anyway if they can't get as much data as they can.
Anonymous No.106238398
>>106238201
>I will abandon the internet
>hurr durr make a new one
Good luck to you, anonymous stranger.
Anonymous No.106238489 >>106238647 >>106238657 >>106240442
>>106236832
>>106238179
i have no idea what this shit means. what i've heard is some countries are rich, but now they have debts, so they should be broke. you can't both have a debt and be rich. and debts to who. and they're just printing money too. and there's inflation and banks and god knows what. shit makes no fucking sense. people talk about not understanding cryptocurrencies, but they make more sense than this.
Anonymous No.106238586 >>106238702
>>106238349
>No-one is willingly and knowingly, sharing their world with jeet central.
Most of the world doesn't even know what this means, the rest does not give a shit, they just see Youtube/Gmail giving them "Install Chrome" popups and click on it. If this would kill any browsers it would be Firefox cause Google no longer has to fund them. Hell maybe Chrome itself would lose market share if Google decided to say fuck you and stopped recommending Chrome on Youtube/Gmail, but what the fuck else would people opt for? Microsoft Edge?
Anonymous No.106238602
>>106238291
>> all your personal information is used to train ai bots
>> your payment: $0
ok and what about when perplexity takes over?
Anonymous No.106238623
>>106238393
yeah then Google can just acquire Perplexity, by need. For half the price they are offering for Chrome. I doubt the Perplexed jeets would be too unhappy with that result either. They might need to justify their current valuation otherwise.
Anonymous No.106238647 >>106238876 >>106239376
>>106238489
idk how that works specifically, but you can be in debt while having money. like if i borrow $100 from someone and then later make $500, now i have $500 while still being $100 in debt to someone.
Anonymous No.106238657 >>106238896
>>106238489
>you can't both have a debt and be rich.

You don't have to pay back the debt, you only have to pay the interest on it, and the way banking works this will give you better interest rates because being able to pay your debts gives you better credit ratings. Conversely, if you DON'T have external debts, it tanks your credit rating, and bad credit rating means you are on the monetary security of Nigeria, so nobody will want to trade or invest in the country.

It's basically a "fuck you, pay us" magical spell by the rare deepwater jews, little more. And it's working.
Anonymous No.106238702 >>106238919
>>106238586
yeah, letting Chrome get to approaching 70% market share was a mistake. I blame Firefox. I'm also not sure how this can be fixed now desu. G. grew themselves a rod for legislators to beat them with.
Anonymous No.106238876 >>106238968
>>106238647
i'm not sure if you meant to say that, but yes, you have 500. not 600.
Anonymous No.106238896 >>106238960
>>106238657
i understand even less after reading your post.
Anonymous No.106238919
>>106238702
>yeah, letting Chrome get to approaching 70% market share was a mistake. I blame Firefox

Don't blame Firefox. Microsoft and Apple bundling their browser with their OS didn't do a damn thing. Safari has double digit usage share but even that's only because you could not actually change it on iOS until this year (every alternate browser still had to use the safari engine).

Nobody can do a fucking thing when the most popular websites on the planet all tell you to install Chrome. You'd need to get, I dunno, Facebook and Amazon and Twitter all simultaneously telling you that the site runs better with Firefox, and then Mozilla would be able to get more usage share. But the second they'd pull that magic trick out of their rabbit hat, Google would stop funding the Mozilla CEOs hundred million dollar bonuses and they'd be forced to close shop.
Anonymous No.106238960 >>106239022
>>106238896
>i understand even less after reading your post.

Look at the last line:
>It's basically a "fuck you, pay us" magical spell by the rare deepwater jews, little more.
Anonymous No.106238968 >>106239008
>>106238876
lol, no i messed up. that should be i have $600 while being in $100 of debt
now typically one would want to settle debts as soon as possible, so that should turn back into you having $500 with no debt
but the way you're suggesting with this post is that you don't "have" the money that put you in debt. well if i borrow $100 from someone, do i not have $100? like i'm holding it and can spend it, i just have to pay it back later. perhaps it's just a difference in perspective, like you could argue also quite accurately that the $100 i borrowed was never mine, and i'm simply spending someone else's money. it's probably a better way to think about it, but i don't think it makes a difference functionally
Anonymous No.106239008
>>106238968
you're borrowing it. it's not yours. it's not really that hard.
Anonymous No.106239022 >>106239205
>>106238960
>just trust me, jews did it
Anonymous No.106239083 >>106239631
>>106236785
>Brave already is a spyware browser.
How so?
Anonymous No.106239205 >>106239275 >>106239711
>>106239022
Already explained it to you that it's a banking mechanic used to make you spend more on credit to allow you to spend more on credit, creating an endless downward spiral, but the alternative is for no bank to consider dealing with you, which means you'll become Zimbabwe in a year.

In other words it's a grand scale money sapping scheme and oh no which group of people, well known in the banking world, is well known for those.
Anonymous No.106239275 >>106239621
>>106239205
you say that, but it still doesn't make sense, because you're just saying that it is, but not how, in a way that makes sense. it's like saying if you have 2 rocks and you lend 1 to someone else they can now be included in the banking community because space monkeys from Neptune collect tiny rocks that turn into magic diamonds.
Anonymous No.106239360 >>106249099
>>106236832
BRAZIL NUMERO UM
Anonymous No.106239376 >>106239398 >>106239450 >>106239650 >>106243527 >>106244141
>>106238647
Why wouldn't you immediately pay your debt instead of accruing interest?
Anonymous No.106239398
>>106239376
in this system everyone expects future money to be lower value
Anonymous No.106239429 >>106239616
>>106236697 (OP)
>AI startup
>$34.5B for Chrome
Anonymous No.106239440
>>106236697 (OP)
couldn't google just build a new browser after selling it?
Anonymous No.106239450 >>106239466
>>106239376
because (((noone))) will borrow you money if you pay it back on time. Learn2history
Anonymous No.106239466 >>106239501
>>106239450
yes they do. that's just blatantly false.
Anonymous No.106239479 >>106239493 >>106244231
>>106238286
I'm confused, if they don't respect the robots.txt why even call to check it?
Anonymous No.106239493
>>106239479
They might classify the data differently in their database if it was obtained against express wishes of the site owner.
Anonymous No.106239501 >>106239547
>>106239466
nigger, im not talking pawn shop debt you have because you pawned tat totally your iphone. Nations dont pay dembts on time so they can have money at hand now, pay some interest so they can borrow more, sometimes use new loan to pay interest on old and that's ow it worked for centuries.
Anonymous No.106239547
>>106239501
Holy shit this was hard to read lmao
Anonymous No.106239548 >>106240382
Chrome would be abandoned overnight if they got their hands on it and likely banned across any respectable Enterprise company.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/
>Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ ads

This is like getting paid pocket change to spit on your own creation. $34B isn't even a lot for Google.
Anonymous No.106239572 >>106250687
>>106236744
fpbp
Indian anything can fuck off.
I'm not even happy indian engineers have infiltrated our country as much as they have.
Anonymous No.106239595 >>106240306
>>106236832
Chinese debt isn't accurate. Their internal debt is estimated to be above 300%, literally the worst in the world by miles.
Anonymous No.106239616
>>106239429
I want to know if India is investing in their companies in the same way China is?
If I create a start-up in India, will they pour billions into my company just because it's in India?
Anonymous No.106239621 >>106239654 >>106239707 >>106239711
>>106239275
Maybe you just don't have the IQ to follow, I dunno. I'll try again.

1. how much banks/investors like you is determined by your credit rating
2. if your credit rating is crap, you are a financial liability and investors will avoid you like the plague cause they'd lose money on you.
3. If your credit rating is good, investors will love you and give you money because they know you are reliable and they can expect their money back.
4. you raise your credit rating by... buying stuff on credit, and then PAYING BACK the credit or the interest. This means that loaning you money is good business because you pay it back + with interest. If you DON'T pay back your credit, your credit obviously tanks.

So to get good credit and charm investors, you have to buy shit on loan, and pay it back. This means investors will like you (because they can EXPECT TO BE PAID BACK THEIR INVESTMENT), and they'll invest in your business, and you are now the Wolf of wall street rolling in dosh and snorting cocaine off the waxed pussies of supermodels.

The trick is that if you don't buy on credit, you don't raise your credit rating. You'll be perpetually in the "not reliable" class and can't invest shit. So the system FORCES you to get in on this scheme, and the bigger business you have the bigger investments you need, which means taking on more loans to build your rating etc etc.

It's a self sustaining ponzi scheme, and the banks are making money on every step while you build your business on money that is not yours. Hence, you are in debt.

And on big levels (countries) it gets to the point where you can pay your debt by taking another loan, putting you in a perpetual downward spiral that goes on forever. And the banks want to KEEP it going cause it means you KEEP PAYING THEM. Hence, debt is GREAT. Unless there's some financial crisis and the banks are unable to spend money on loans. Then the scheme collapses and the entire world is fucked (like back in 2008).
Anonymous No.106239631 >>106239686
>>106239083
Anonymous No.106239650
>>106239376
Because some loans are designed in a way so you can't pay it back on one go. Paying it all back in advance would cost you more than paying the interest every month for many years.
Because banks like it when you pay them interest more than they like you paying back your debt, since it generates them a regular flow of money.

We got fucked by that very hard around 2008, my parents had to emigrate to be able to keep paying, eventually we had to sell one of our condos to pay back the loans.

Like I said, it's dark jew magic.
Anonymous No.106239654
>>106239621
I'm nta, but this is only part of it.
If you're looking to rapid expansion, without issuing shares, this is your only other option.
If you form a C corp and don't mind issuing shares, you can avoid getting deep into debt.
This is what Facebook did with Peter Thiel. He offered x amount of dollars and got shares in return and expected the shares to reach a certain value before he executed.
Anonymous No.106239684 >>106239771 >>106244991
>>106236697 (OP)
Holy fuck the perplexity astroturfing on orange reddit is insane!
Anonymous No.106239686 >>106239802
>>106239631
not an argument
Anonymous No.106239707 >>106239802
>>106239621
ok so you're saying you need to borrow money to be able to borrow money. fine. that still doesn't explain why a rich country would be so fucking stupid that they borrow money just to be able to borrow money while paying interest. all you're doing is losing money.
Anonymous No.106239711 >>106239802
>>106239621
>>106239205
You do realize you can pay off loans before interest accrues and it still helps your credit rating. When you're a *profitable* business or billionaire the interest is hardly an issue because you're likely making hand over fist compared to the interest you accrue. Loans are only an issue when you mismanage them.
Anonymous No.106239771
>>106239684
isn't it same scam shit as was builder.ai? just a bunch of jeets doing everything behind the scene
Anonymous No.106239802 >>106239852
>>106239707
You pay back the money lost, by taking more loans, which you can do because paying back your interest gives you a better credit rating. Meanwhile you spend the other half of the loan on having cocaine orgies on Epstein Island Zone.

It's why many rich folks are in deep fucking debt despite having a net worth in the billions of dollars (which is just the value of shares they own in companies, not something they can use to pay back debt, at best only to use as collateral in another banking deal).

>>106239711
Yes but you can't do that when you are an entire country since you need a continuous influx of investment money to keep the GDP growing (or not tanking).

>>106239686
It was a statement, not an argument.
Anonymous No.106239852 >>106239891 >>106240016
>>106239802
so you're saying the entire world runs on an infinite money glitch by greedy junkies?
Anonymous No.106239886
>>106238000
It's free AI search engine, you dont even need account. They made something useful when every company got greedy as fuck.
Anonymous No.106239891
>>106239852
>so you're saying the entire world runs on an infinite money glitch by greedy junkies?

Okay, now you are starting to get it.
Anonymous No.106239969
>>106236778
hopefully just enough to work as an actual dev team working to build and improve a web browser instead of millions of dollars wasted on being tranny central
Anonymous No.106240016
>>106239852
It's not infinite money, it's infinite money you pay {{{them}}}, in return you can keep the scheme going and be able to fuck underage whores and bath in coconut milk and drink Don Perignon all day long.

And then every few decades there's a financial crisis and then shit collapses hard because people spend money on the perceived worth of things, not on its real value, so when you have to pay up the real value it creates at best a bankruptcy, at worst a worldwide economical crisis.
Anonymous No.106240306 >>106240434
>>106239595
So when you're in Xi's face shouting that the Communist Party of China needs to pay their debt to you right now... what do you say after "or else"?
Anonymous No.106240352 >>106240783 >>106244123
>>106238387
wtf why lol
Anonymous No.106240382 >>106249616
>>106239548
>Chrome would be abandoned overnight if they got their hands on it and likely banned across any respectable Enterprise company.
It's also gonna be illegal as shit in the EU unless the tracking is opt-in.

>This is like getting paid pocket change to spit on your own creation. $34B isn't even a lot for Google.
Google doesn't wanna sell but might have to because of anti-trust.
Anonymous No.106240434 >>106244403
>>106240306
What? I don't think you understand how internal debt works in China.
Chinese provinces have a Provincial People's Government ran by a executive, I don't remember what it's called but it's akin to a governor, A Provincial People's Congress, and a provincial branch of the CCP. Keep in mind, the CCP is a political party in China and not the official government. Also keep in mind that the CCP owns the military and Governmental China doesn't really have a military.
The CCP declares that provinces must maintain growth or the governor gets axed. Metaphorically or literally. So to accomplish this, provinces sell land use rights and levy taxes against land. The majority of this money goes to the national CCP. They then must find money to maintain infrastructure and public services. This is why there is so much tofu construction.
They also use Local Government Financing Vehicles (LGFVs) to work around borrowing money. Basically these are the Temu and Wish type companies that sell shit to the US. They incur debt through these companies to fund provincial projects and occur debt on their behalf.
There's also (((hidden debt))) that these companies engage it, i.e. tax fraud.
The debt of the provinces of China is higher than the debt of the US government. Even worse is what would happen if the world actually moved manufacturing out of China and targeted the LGFVs. This is the fearmongering that China is going to collapse come from. If Europe and the US targeted LGFVs, it's over for China in a matter of months to years. There would be no financial mechanism to stop a collapse without selling Chinese property outright to foreigners or invading countries with resources - which they're already actively engaging in for this reason.
Anonymous No.106240442
>>106238489
I forgot the word for it. But the strategy is about profit maxxing while paying back debt as slow as possible.
Anonymous No.106240750 >>106244123
>>106238387
You're so massively fucking retarded it's hard to find words for it.
Anonymous No.106240783
>>106240352
protection against anti-trust
Anonymous No.106241659
>>106236772
Firefox bought a AI company and an AD company and is pushing AI hard now.
Anonymous No.106243250 >>106243271 >>106244174
>>106236832
Every dollar the US prints is tax revenue from the entire rest of the world, the US literally levies taxes against the entire world whenever it wants and no one bats an eye, it's kind of absurd to think about
Anonymous No.106243271
>>106243250
It has balances, however
Anonymous No.106243405
>>106238196
With MMT anything’s possible baby.

>>106237498
Welcome to the Eurozone milkshake.
Anonymous No.106243527
>>106239376
Bank algorithms will punish you for paying early or even on time.
Their ideal customer is someone who drags it out over time so they can collect higher fees, but doesn’t go over the edge into bankruptcy.
Most of their work is min-maxing this fine line threshold.
There’s a public credit score they give to make normies feel good and responsible, then there’s the unofficial one they use to track whales.
Anonymous No.106243646 >>106243689
>>106236697 (OP)
>Perplexity Offers $34.5 Billion

HOW THE FUCK this literally who company has this much money ?????
I know it's mostly shares but still what the fuck?

The only thing I know them for is for being a bootleg overpriced chatGPT clone that's bundled with some chat apps. I've never even heard of anyone that uses their product.
Anonymous No.106243689 >>106243711
>>106243646
They don't, it's a bluff to boost their own valuation with FOMO.
In first place all VC startups are heavily leveraged before their IPO, 5:1 is the base, and many go far higher with "pledges of capital" rather than real capital.
Anonymous No.106243711
>>106243689
>They don't, it's a bluff to boost their own valuation with FOMO.
I believe you as that was my first though, but they clearly don't have this money.
According to Wikipedia, even with all the funding, all their assets and all their valuation added together doesn't even make up for half of that.
How is that not fraud and market manipulation?
Anonymous No.106244123 >>106249403
>>106240352
Firefox's revenue almost all comes from Google. They say it's in exchange for making Google the default search page on new Firefox installs but it's really because Google needs for there to be a second browser in the market to help fend off claims of having a monopoly on browsers.
>Firefox brings in about 90 percent of the Mozilla Foundation's revenue, 85 percent of which comes from a deal with Google.
Without Google paying what's essentially protection money, Mozilla would go bankrupt.
>>106240750
Really sad life you live.
Anonymous No.106244141
>>106239376
>Why wouldn't you immediately pay your debt instead of accruing interest?
If the interest on a loan is less than what you can make with the money you would use to pay it off, then why pay off the loan?
Anonymous No.106244170 >>106245217
How the fuck does a startup have 34.5 billions to offer?
Anonymous No.106244174
>>106243250
The US spends insane amounts of money on defending the world's shipping lanes and generally serves as world policeman. As much as that annoys many, it also is an expensive service that most would miss if it went away.
Anonymous No.106244180
>>106236772
Firefox won holy shit
>Jeet offers to buy Chrome
>Antitrust lawsuit
>Incognito mode isn't even incognito within chrome
>still no about://config in Chrome despite being 2025
>AI ID tracking through youtube
>uBlock Origin support removed from Manifest v3
>Hide AI images feature on DuckDuckGo making google more and more obsolete
Anonymous No.106244211 >>106244422
>>106236697 (OP)
>In July 2025, Perplexity launched Comet, an AI browser based on Chromium. Initially, access to the browser is limited to users subscribed to the highest, most expensive subscription tier, with broader availability expected over time. A key feature of the browser is the integration of the Perplexity search engine, which enables users to perform a variety of tasks such as generating article summaries, describing an image, conducting research about a topic and composing emails.
>On January 18, 2025, the day before the impending U.S. ban on Chinese social media app TikTok, Perplexity submitted a proposal for a merger with TikTok US.
>On August 12, 2025, Perplexity made a bid to buy Google Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion. Perplexity stated that the sale could remedy anti-trust litigation against Google, in which a judge was considering compelling the sale of Chrome.
pack it up lads it's another scam altman situation
Anonymous No.106244225
>>106237348
They probably already know, they’re just making money before the penny drops. It’s the kind of behaviour that keeps these bubbles going, it’s more beneficial to act retarded even if it’s obviously fucked, cause it keeps the bubble inflating
Anonymous No.106244231
>>106239479
Might have juicy URLs to scrape from, that other companies wouldn’t have scraped already, since they’re in robots.txt
Anonymous No.106244333
Ladybird could not come soon enough.
Anonymous No.106244403 >>106248522
>>106240434
I can't believe someone actually took the time to absorb the CIA talking points he's watched
hopefully the next guy will be generous enough to bother refuting your inconsequential laowhy (pun intended) opinions
Anonymous No.106244422
>>106244211
>antitrust google for bundling googleshit into chrome
>so they can sell it to poos to bundle jeetplexity trash instead
Anonymous No.106244991
>>106239684
for a second I thought I was reading linkedin
Anonymous No.106245040 >>106245054 >>106247166
>>106236697 (OP)
>Is this good or bad?
neither.
the idea that you can sell chrome is asinine. what's that supposed to mean?
you cannot stop google from contributing to open-source chromium. are you buying the chrome trademark? google is then just publishing their chromium-based browser under a different name.
Anonymous No.106245054 >>106245127
>>106245040
And it'll take how many years for them to build up the new browser? And if they gain 60% market share again, it'll be the target of anti-trust again.
Anonymous No.106245127 >>106245140 >>106246613
>>106245054
zero years.
people use chrome because it works best with google.
all the other chromium-based browsers are basically the same. yet people actively install chrome despite edge, a chromium-based browser, being the default on windows.
Anonymous No.106245140
>>106245127
Yeah, because they fucking know the Chrome brand.

If you actually think that they'll instantly switch to whatever is the new Google browser, you're retarded.
Anonymous No.106245217
>>106244170
>How the fuck does a startup have 34.5 billions to offer?

The AI bubble really got out of hand.
Anonymous No.106245471
Offer is in rupees
Anonymous No.106246613 >>106246865 >>106246871 >>106247185
>>106245127
Microsoft blew it big time themselves with browsers. ie was unusable garbage from about v6 onwards. It doesn't matter what they bundle now or call it, it's always gonna be ChromeDownloader.exe. Which is a problem as much for Google as it is for MS, who no longer appear to care.
Anonymous No.106246858
>>106238387
Firefox is excellent and Chrome is shit, is how.
Anonymous No.106246865
>>106246613
The Chromium Edge reboot worked pretty well for them. Lots of people actually use it and I'd rather use it than Chrome. I main Firefox, but Edge is my second browser of choice.
Anonymous No.106246871 >>106246900
>>106246613
>ie was unusable garbage from about v6 onwards

No, when it came out in 2000 or so, it was really far ahead of everything, could do ajax and 3d transforms and shit like that too. Nonstandard ways yes, but the standard for those did not fucking exist until a decade later.
And Firefox did not exist in any form yet, except as an under-process rewrite of Netscape. Opera was ad filled garbage that broke every website. The only legitimate alternatives were KHTML and Internet Explorer for Mac (that used a different, better engine).

The problem was that MS said "ok, that's it then" and stopped developing it until 2006, and they had a massive, massive disadvantage to work off and never really managed to catch on to the competition.
Anonymous No.106246900 >>106247239
>>106246871
It's still crazy to me that MS was able to just stagnate web development for 5 fucking years. Using a 5 year old browser today would be a struggle.
Anonymous No.106246918
Won't happen because chrome is worth more, android phones with chrome pre-installed sell every second.
Anonymous No.106247166
>>106245040
>the idea that you can sell chrome is asinine.
Nigger, Google just lost an antitrust case. They will be forced to sell both chrome and android.
And if you are pay attention, you can see they are making preparations to "sell" them to non-profits with out losing the control.
Anonymous No.106247185
>>106246613
>Firefox only beat IE in 2016
>Just because IE was losing faster
Anonymous No.106247239
>>106246900
>Using a 5 year old browser today would be a struggle.

That's because Chrome is so dominant they can just push any half baked broken standard into the browser, and everything else has to play catch up. It no longer takes ages for features to be standardized, because the only standard is whether it is in Chromium or not. It's the same tactic Microsoft used in 1998 to beat Netscape. Google is the one doing Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, as well as nonstop antitrust violations, and unlike Microsoft they got away with it (until recently anyway).
Anonymous No.106247386
>>106238112
Keep in mind that they'd have to work out a deal with Google to bundle Chrome with Android and use the phones' Google accounts to really have the same user base as chrome did before the buyout. Otherwise google can spin up a new browser via a shell company and use that instead. They might even be funding Ladybird to make it happen, whereupon that MIT license will allow it to be forked and totally forgotten about.
Anonymous No.106248522
>>106244403
Christ will purge you and your bugmen kind, he will swarm you with floods of jewish debt.
Anonymous No.106249099
>>106239360
Anonymous No.106249144 >>106249215 >>106249513
Yeah, no, Google's entire business model requires them controlling the browser. If they're forced to sell, it's going to get bought by John Google's brother's shell company that was just registered that morning.
Anonymous No.106249215
>>106249144
>Google's entire business model requires them controlling the browser.
Google's business model worked just fine before they made Chrome.
Anonymous No.106249245
>>106238390
It's a lot more widespread now that there's financial incentive to scrape every last piece of data on the internet.
Anonymous No.106249271
AI unicorn meme companies need to stay in their own fake temporary lanes
Anonymous No.106249403
>>106236778
>>106238387
>>106244123
I would like to point out that as part of these Anti-trust actions against Google, the DoJ is also pushing to ban Google from paying organizations like Firefox or Apple to be default search, in addition to forcing Google to sell off Chrome. So there is a good chance Firefox will have that funding cut off.
Anonymous No.106249441
>>106236697 (OP)
34.5 Bil for chrome is laughable.
Anonymous No.106249513 >>106249846
>>106249144
The DoJ will have to approve whoever ends up buying Chrome if this anti-trust remedy is approved by the courts; I doubt Google selling to a simple shell company will fool them.
Anonymous No.106249592
>>106237548
Exact same as Google
Anonymous No.106249616 >>106250048
>>106240382
>Google doesn't wanna sell but might have to because of anti-trust.
If they lose the anti-trust wouldn't the optimal move just be to move Chrome into a new company held under ABC, but separate from Google itself? Isn't that how companies usually get around this stuff? or at a worst, split it off entirely and partner between the two companies.
Anonymous No.106249846 >>106250048
>>106249513
Counter-point: Microsoft antitrust case.
Anonymous No.106250048
>>106249846
A different time & political climate; Google has managed to piss off enough people on both sides of the political aisle that it is much more likely they will get hit with serious punishment. (Due note that these anti-trust cases started at the end of Trump's first term, were continued by the Biden admin, and Trump admin round 2 seems to want the same legal remedies).

>>106249616
The DoJ would have to approve the sale, and it is incredibly doubtful that they would allow a different part of Alphabet to take over Chrome. If you look at past anti-trust break ups you see stuff like AT&T getting chopped into a bunch of smaller corporations (granted years later some of them were able to merge back together).
Anonymous No.106250490 >>106250531
>>106238387
They havent taken money from google since the anti trust bullshit started. This was talked about all the way back in march 25' or whenever.
Everybody was pissed because firefox had to monetize data collection at that point to stay afloat. And then all the ladybird and that wierd jap browser users came out of the wood work.
Its a nothingburger if google goes under.
Anonymous No.106250531 >>106250818
>>106250490
It's an annual payment you moron. Of course they haven't taken money from Google since their last annual payment since a year hasn't passed. What the fuck is wrong with you?
Anonymous No.106250557
google should just bribe trump and get this over with
send over sergey to schmooz the pedophile and remind him who owns little faggot ass
Anonymous No.106250687
>>106236744
>>106239572
You're not going to believe who is CEO of Google right now!
Anonymous No.106250818
>>106250531
Youre correct. My bad. I was under the impression it was no longer happening.
Anonymous No.106251464
What the fuck, this thing actually will access porn sites for me, how?
All other models just got blocked and answer with bullshit speculation.
Anonymous No.106251591
>>106236697 (OP)
This is just Perplexity trying to get free advertising. I could send Google a crayoned offer to buy Chrome for $34.51 Billion and it wouldn't be a news story, even though I'm as likely to have my offer accepted.