Ars Technica@arstechnica@mastodon.social
Perplexity offers more than twice its total valuation to buy Chrome from Google
Google may soon be ordered to sell Chrome, and Perplexity is ready.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/perplexity-offers-more-than-twice-its-total-valuation-to-buy-chrome-from-google/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Adam Katz@adamhotep@infosec.exchange
@arstechnica@mastodon.social There is only one feasible new home for Chromium: an independent non-profit funded by an endowment populated by fines applied to Alphabet/Google.
It doesn't make money (it mustn't make money!)
It is very expensive to develop (this is why it's faster than Firefox!)
Selling it to a not-yet-profitable owner is a really bad idea—they'll try to monetize it