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I may be being a little more optimistic than some other people here, but I agree with you. There's a history of larger companies acquiring smaller ones only to ruin them (ahem, Yahoo), so hopefully Prosus understands what makes Stack Overflow so successful and will be mostly hands off. (Also, I'm not sure when Prosus acquired Udemy, but as far as I know that acquisition didn't negatively affect that site.)

Tencent isn't the buyer. Prosus, a Tencent investor, is.

True, but they have a large enough stake in Tencenz to have relevant impact on Tencent's acquisition culture.

They're south african and a huge holder in tencent. Edit: Memory failed me, the parent company is south african.