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No shit it died. They stopped supporting it and on top of it it’s a browser that requires you to be logged into an account to use, which is a turnoff to techie people who are the most likely to adopt nee things early.
Oh and Microsoft Edge can do most of the things Arc does.
Yep. Save reason I won’t use Kagi and I don’t use AI much. Surveillance capitalism will only ever lead to authoritarianism and dystopia. I don’t want anything to do with it.
You can’t trust any company to not sell you out and pick your carcass clean.
Can you cite me some instances of surveillance from Kagi? Genuinely asking.
What do you use instead of Kagi?
Also you can search without tying your searches to your account with Kagi.
When i left Chrome, one of the things I was looking for was vertical tabs and was willing to try anything. I wasn’t fond of a mac first option, but I decided to try it. Installed it and the first thing it did was to force me to make an account, uninstalled it instantly.
I’m not against the option of having an account, but forcing it makes me distrust them. Was not long after that there were also some major security flaws found as well. They really didn’t make it easy for people to change, almost like they thought the apple form over function would appeal more broadly.
Never even heard of it until now.
Zen Browser is open source and in active development!
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No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?
Because 96% of people aren’t using Linux to browse the web.
That figure is entirely irrelevant when you need to target users who are willing to try a new unknown third party browser in the first place.
And you’ll find orders of magnitude more of those among Linux users than you do on Mac, which is where Arc launched on.LOL no. 96% is not irrelevant. 4% is irrelevant.
it couldn’t be too popular as a windows only project. I assume it was too lite known, like I never even heard about it here or other places
It probably has something to do with being only available on Macs for so long.
Or them completely shifting development to their AI browser
The Browser Company, the developer behind the Arc Browser, has announced that Arc is going away
Where? Where did they do this? Why is there no link? They said several times, very recently, that it was not going away. They were just basically going into maintenance mode.
please know this: we’re not trying to shut Arc down.
When I eventually managed to test Arc, I felt it was a very overhyped browser. I couldn’t see what the fuss was about.
So, no Windows, no Linux, no head?
There is a windows and mobile tab on their website
It was a fun little experiment to use for about 15 minutes. Won’t miss it.
Most regular people just use what came with their computer, unfortunately.
So this is a case of a company that made a browser to appeal to techies that didn’t see widespread adoption, is pivoting to a new browser that is focused on the central conceit of a product that most techies decry…
Read the room, Arc. Read the room.
That’s very sad to hear. I am currently using Arc as my main browser for work (I am a web developer) since its launch on MacOS. Guess I need to switch browsers soon then…
It’s not dead. As far as I can tell the author just made that up, because they didn’t cite any sources, and the actual official sources indicate otherwise. But I can recommend switching to Zen nonetheless.
I really liked the layout of Arc, but ended up going back to Firefox because uBlock still works on it.
Try Zen, it used Arc as its main inspiration for the UI and features
with the TF2 engineer’s voice
THE ARC IS DEAD?
I hated arc but I really really wanted to like it. It was just too awkward to use
