Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience

• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Considering how little they invest into their core product compared to all the other shit and how much money the top brass earns despite declining market share, I don’t think they’re hurting for money that much.

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are investing a lot in their core product. Problem is that you can’t really monatize it. You want Firefox to be paywalled?

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ideally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.

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      • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can’t finance a massive project like that with donations. This isn’t like Signal or some small project like that. Firefox is MASSIVE.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, web browsers cost hundreds of millions per year to maintain, they’re mind-bogglingly complicated and costly.

        I’d really hope the Linux Foundation would help contribute towards the budget, but LF is quite pro Chromium.

        I don’t think end users can even come close to funding Firefox development, unfortunately.

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