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> Who would even buy Chrome?

You mean.. who would want to buy an app that has 65% marketshare?

I just imagine some shady company (shadier than google at least) buying it to slap ads all over inside the browser itself.

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Re shady company: the possibility of some shady foreign governmental agency getting control of Chrome, through layers of shell companies, is terrifying to think about. This possibility hasn't been discussed much in this thread, perhaps surprisingly. The value of collecting data from or inserting backdoors into Chrome seems so massive that I find it hard to trust any but the existing large tech companies to have the skills and infrastructure to keep it safe (keeping the pager bombs story in mind)

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