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Who do you think is going to buy chrome? And don't you think they are going to want to recoup their investment?

I suspect chrome will get far less consumer friendly than chrome currently is if it is sold.

Some AI company could buy it and add some subscriptions based AI services. Or package it with optional but very popular and lucrative VPN, etc. There's a lot of potential business models apart from feeding advertising algorithms. Besides maintaining a browser is not stupendously expensive, firefox runs on about $500M in revenue.

> Some AI company could buy it and add some subscriptions based AI services. Or package it with optional but very popular and lucrative VPN, etc.

There are many who already do just this. What extra value would they get if they already repackage Chrome for free?

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