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It unfortunately requires an account to use the browser at all.

A browser, un no circumstances, should be log-in walled.

Seemed like a great user experience as a browser, but unfortunately I uninstalled it as soon as I launched it to a sign in screen.

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> It unfortunately requires an account to use the browser at all.

It does? Well, that's a showstopper right there. At least I know I can safely ignore this browser from here on out, though. Thank you!

I remember you! You posted something similar about Arc a few months ago in a thread I started. I hope you can ignore it this time. :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35086116

You're so right! I'd forgotten. It will probably happen again -- I'll forget about Arc and then reinvestigate it. Apologies for the redundancy. :)

I think this is the Ouroboros of curiosity - discovery, investigation, disappointment, amnesia. If it doesn't catch, we don't really remember it. This seems very human.

I'm like that with a couple of hole-in-the-wall restaurants in the area that people hype, but aren't actually good. I forget their names and visit every few years.

I've watched Prometheus three times because of this. I keep forgetting not only that I've seen it, but that it's awful.

Haha. That’s a bad one. You’re just straight up cursed. :)

Yeah, I bailed as soon as I got the prompt. No way Hose-A.

> A browser, un no circumstances, should be log-in walled.

Why? Not that Arc does this, but in today's modern world, we're two device creatures; a smartphone and a laptop. How do you connect the two if not with some sort of login?

What if you do not want to connect the two (e.g. because you do not have two, or just because you want separate files on each)?

Well from the privacy policy :

> Why do we collect personal data? > Protect against fraud, or implement additional security measures.

Another play on the verified human angle ?

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