How is Chrome valued at $15-20 billion? The chromium part is free; and the added value of chrome that's not chromium, AFAICT, is mainly "integrates with Google products"—i.e., the parts that would get nuked in an antitrust action.

> How is Chrome valued at $15-20 billion?

Chrome has 3.45 billion users worldwide.

As the gatekeeper between the user and the web, there's no shortage of to ways burn the good reputation of Chrome for one-time financial gains.

How is the software that decides the first thing most people see or do when they turn on their computers to go online worth a lot of money, you're asking?

Peter thiel could probably make that happen since he's a major investor in Rumble. Most of their money comes from ads, this could be massive influx for them.

Now imagine how they can scale that up with such a ubiquitous platform like Chrome... I'm shivering (and they're drooling)

> Rumble's entire market cap is $1.6B

That sounds ideal to me. Every other big corporation (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft) would otherwise have their agenda to push.

Otherwise some kind of foundation might be created, similar to the mozilla foundation, with various companies chipping in some money to fund development.