Comment on The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian

BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m very mildly pro-AI, in the sense that I remain optimistic there will be at least a few cool use cases and I’d love to find them.

  So I tried Dia… And uninstalled it a few hours later. Why would I want to “chat with my tabs”? Even if I didn’t think this was a rubbish use case, every browser comes with a chatbot sidebar/extension/whatever, why would I want to change browsers just for that?

  Heavy pass. Also, after how they abandoned Arc, I don’t think they can be trusted to develop a product and not pull the rug from under the users when it becomes mildly inconvenient to keep working on it.

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  • BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The main problem with A.I. isn't that it can't be a useful tool, it is that the creators can't resist the urge to take the opportunity to hoover up every bit of data they can from the users. That and they are spending billions of dollars in A.I. creation. You don't spend that kind of money to help your employees do their jobs, you spend that money to replace your employees.

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  • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, they had abandoned Arc? Then yeah, doubly dismiss them. It wasn’t even old…

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    • Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What happened was, they realised that Arc was a niche product that had a fervient userbase but would never become a mainstream browser, so they declared the development was “complete” and they were moving on to Dia so that they could jump onto the AI bandwagon create the next generation of browser.

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      • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’d think a company that makes browsers could make more than one browser.

        Hell, opera has a flavour for however you’re feeling that minute.

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