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Charlie Deets

If you ever tried Arc and it didn’t stick for you, I’d love to know why.

noClaps
Replying to @sundown @charliedeets

Would love to hear the rant

Shafikh
Replying to @noclaps @charliedeets

Alright, after some pondering it's just this : Arc uses chromium for a browser foundation like every other browser alt like Opera, Edge excluding Safari and Firefox. But it's also created and sorely controlled by Google from chrome itself. 1/?

Shafikh
Replying to @noclaps @charliedeets

And with the fact that they control 63% of the browser market while 40 % of internet users use adblockers means that there's tons of missed revenue extraction from allowing adblocker extensions built on chromium to proliferate, affecting google's ecosystem (duh). 2/?

Shafikh
Replying to @noclaps @charliedeets

So they've been making the whole chromium project to migrate to an update (Webmanifest V3) that virtually cripples all forms of older adblockers. With it being open source, it could be forked but that's a losing battle insofar (look at OG Msft Edge). 3/?

Shafikh
Replying to @noclaps @charliedeets

So the "choice" is to either take it or leave it. Leaving all adblockers crippled. Along with yt bs with adblockers too. But on arc's side, the software features are really just redundant. Despite what the ceo aspires for arc to be, it's still a SaaS app. 4/5

Shafikh
Replying to @noclaps @charliedeets

Using the same colonized ground with ai to "search the web for you" yuck. Also safari is memory hungry on my 2015 intel MacBook Air as is, Arc just makes it choke. 5/5

noClaps
Replying to @sundown @charliedeets

Was gonna write a response to this explaining some of the more behind-the-scenes changes in MV3, why that whole thing is more complicated than it seems at first glance, etc. (1/2)

noClaps
Replying to @sundown @charliedeets

But then I realised that it doesn't matter. Just use the things you like, and don't use the things you don't. The whole browser debate is stupid imo. Also I didn't want to completely fill up Charlie's notifications lol (2/2)