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This was the browser that required an account to even start using, it was just ridiculous.
The Devs at the browser company said themselves that they aren’t killing Arc, it’s just on maintenance mode as they are working on another browser, an AI first one, which I have mixed feelings about personally.
Never heard of that thing, but apparently it was Apple exclusives? Deserved death then.
I’m hoping ladybug will be operational for mainstream use, before the enshittification of Firefox progresses too far.
Its not apple exclusive. I have it on both my macbook and windows computer
Right, thanks!
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.
It probably has something to do with being only available on Macs for so long.
I guess they lost their only selling point when Firefox added vertical tabs…
Also Zen exists, which is a Firefox fork that implements the concept of Arc
Zen Browser is open source and in active development!
Never even heard of it until now.
So, no Windows, no Linux, no head?
There is a windows and mobile tab on their website
No Linux build, not git link, why would anyone care?
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
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.
It was a fun little experiment to use for about 15 minutes. Won’t miss it.
I hated arc but I really really wanted to like it. It was just too awkward to use
with the TF2 engineer’s voice
THE ARC IS DEAD?
