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

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• ominouslemon@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s pretty sad that new and innovative companies only exist to get sold to big corporations these days. And I’m saying that as someone who did not like Arc

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unfortunately that’s the goal of a lot of startups. A startup is considered “successful” if they get acquired by a large company and employees of the startup make a lot of money.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I liked some of the features of Arc. Fortunately they’ve pretty much all been added to Zen since then.

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    • mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Let's hope Zen doesn't get bought by someone.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I completely forgot that Zen is Firefox-based. I’ve been avoiding some of these newer browsers because they’re based on Chromium. I’ll have to try it out!

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  • Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The best thing The Browser Company ever did was unintentionally making someone else decide to create Zen.

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• BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They lost me at "A.I.".

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  • 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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• joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And they still probably won’t port the browser to Linux.

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  • xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s no need. Zen exists on Linux and works just fine.

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    • dil@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      idk how I ever used any other browser before, it bothers me that I never looked for other options since a firefox exensionnsimilar to zenbrowser already existed

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