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✉️ 🌱 To SigmaOS’ CEO: This Is What I Don’t Like About Arc’s Direction

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I really, really like the Arc browser. But as I alluded to in this post, I have some reservations regarding it, and don’t feel like it’s going in a direction that I like. In the post, I said that I might try SigmaOS again — and I am. 1 I mentioned this in their community Slack, and their CEO, Mahyad, asked me what about Arc’s direction I don’t like. I must say, the dev team seems very active, nice, and open to input! So this post is my reply to his question. (And here’s a link straight to the TL;DR at the bottom.) Hi, Mahyad — and thanks for asking! I wrote a blog post called «I Just Want A Nice Browser!», which might give you a hint, heh. And let me also say that I’m a bit worried about your direction as well — but I’ll come back to that. 😉 Two fundamentals I don’t love, but that I don’t need to go too much into I don’t love that Arc is built on Chromium — as I think Google has more than enough power over the web as it is. I’m not against supporting any VC funded company — but in combination with an unclear business model, I become more skeptical and worried if our incentives align. 2 My main issue, though, is regarding AI

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