Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 05:52:20 JST mhoye

   • The Verge News Feed

   I think that @theverge is underselling it - the gold here isn’t the chrome browser, it’s chrome’s automatic background update system. It’s root on billions of machines.

   https://www.theverge.com/chrome/656613/google-chrome-buyers-openai-yahoo-perplexity

   • Rich Felker and Anil Dash repeated this.
   • Embed this notice
     Alien software, human hardware (mavu@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 07:26:38 JST Alien software, human hardware

     in reply to

     • The Verge News Feed

     @mhoye @theverge the LLM fuckers want Chrome, because its a legal way to train their world eating shit on everything any user lets it display.

   • Embed this notice
     Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 07:26:57 JST Alex Russell

     in reply to

     • The Verge News Feed

     @mhoye @theverge@mastodon.social @theverge@theverge.space also continues to miss the implications of a sale on the DOJ's proposed terms to software all-up. By failing to push for an equitable, sustainable spinout (likely to a foundation, w/ the ability to bid for fractional search traffic and with a huge endowment taken from Google), DOJ is setting up Apple and Google to have *more* duopoly power over mobile.

   • Embed this notice
     Adnan 🦙 (adnan@1210.nl)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 23:40:44 JST Adnan 🦙

     in reply to

     • Anil Dash
     • The Verge News Feed

     @mhoye @theverge @anildash
     
     it has been Google’s great restraint in not abusing this root access that is the gold. It is not guaranteed that the next custodian of Chrome will be trustworthy. I wouldn’t trust the AI companies OpenAI or Perplexity.