from real people, or probably-paid articles on tech blogs?
[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEcrRXW3oEYfUctetZTAWLw
maybe not everybody who says arc is good is being paid to say that. but they are all people who accept money to say things like "arc is good". MKBHD included.
Are you sure it is not product placement?
It worked for Apple so I can't blame them for trying, but it makes the entire thing feel so empty.
It looks like someone mashed the basic features Microsoft built into Edge into a a frame around Webkit with one or two cool features.
I don't want to go all https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 but Microsoft Edge seems to be doing most of the features this browser seems to have and more, and it's from a software company I expect to still exist in five years.
But if you don't trust a software, then you should never install it, and you should never ask for reinsurance from the software makers. If their goal is to compromise personal computers, then they will also lie in any information they put out.
It's like being at a car dealer that you think is a criminal, and asking him to double-pinky swear that the car you're looking at wasn't stolen.