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It’s not a switch campaign but Google just begged me to login before showing me my search results. Both of you, stop. It’s a desperate look. I live in constant

It’s not a switch campaign but Google just begged me to login before showing me my search results. Both of you, stop. It’s a desperate look. I live in constant fear that the Arc team (my beloved browser) will start chasing revenue with these privacy invasive services. Can I please have the option to just pay for the software? I’m so tired of being the product.

chankstein38 3y ago
I feel the same about Brave. I'm just using it until it inevitably becomes another privacy invader one day.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
  Opera is crafting it's own unique and utterly bizarre behavior. There's a new .exe that runs on browser launch, blasting users with very, very loud sound. There's no obvious way to disable it. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=opera+loud+startup+site%253Areddit.com https://duckduckgo.com/?q=opera+loud+startup+site%253Areddit... When trying to upload a file, one might expect a file picker. Instead, Opera pops open a small window with some pictures of earlier downloads. There's no option to navigate to the file you need. There's no evident path to exit the experience or even a window title to indicate what it's called (easy-files). In short, you're stuck.
  - chankstein38 3y ago
    That's so confusing lol I was just thinking about Opera after reading this earlier and having some youtube videos on where people keep telling me I need to use it. Again makes me wonder, why is people using a browser so important to these companies when they distribute it for free? I mean, the answer is clearly, at least my assumption is, they're stealing data and they all want that sweet sweet data. But, what is the user supposed to feel is the reason? I feel like the only reasonable explanation is that they're trying to rope more product in to sell data but they don't even seem to be trying to hide it. I just feel like I can't think of an alternative reason any company would care if we used their specific browser.
    - mikrotikker 3y ago
      I was so gutted when Opera was sold to a chinese company... it was the last good browser.. now it's spyware
diggan 3y ago
Isn't the company behind Arc VC funded + the browser itself proprietary? Both of those things together basically guarantees they'll try to squeeze out as money as possible from their users as soon as the "growth" phase has been completed.
jrmg 3y ago
You need an Arc account to use Arc too, don’t you?
distract8901 3y ago
GitHub has started showing me a persistent login pop-out on certain pages. Literally no way to dismiss it, so I just uBlocked the element. I don't really want to log in to GitHub in the first place. If I'm there its to check out a public repo. I haven't pushed anything in years, I use my own server now.

chankstein38 3y ago

I feel the same about Brave. I'm just using it until it inevitably becomes another privacy invader one day.

WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
Opera is crafting it's own unique and utterly bizarre behavior. There's a new .exe that runs on browser launch, blasting users with very, very loud sound. There's no obvious way to disable it. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=opera+loud+startup+site%253Areddit.com https://duckduckgo.com/?q=opera+loud+startup+site%253Areddit... When trying to upload a file, one might expect a file picker. Instead, Opera pops open a small window with some pictures of earlier downloads. There's no option to navigate to the file you need. There's no evident path to exit the experience or even a window title to indicate what it's called (easy-files). In short, you're stuck.
- chankstein38 3y ago
  That's so confusing lol I was just thinking about Opera after reading this earlier and having some youtube videos on where people keep telling me I need to use it. Again makes me wonder, why is people using a browser so important to these companies when they distribute it for free? I mean, the answer is clearly, at least my assumption is, they're stealing data and they all want that sweet sweet data. But, what is the user supposed to feel is the reason? I feel like the only reasonable explanation is that they're trying to rope more product in to sell data but they don't even seem to be trying to hide it. I just feel like I can't think of an alternative reason any company would care if we used their specific browser.
  - mikrotikker 3y ago
    I was so gutted when Opera was sold to a chinese company... it was the last good browser.. now it's spyware

diggan 3y ago

Isn't the company behind Arc VC funded + the browser itself proprietary? Both of those things together basically guarantees they'll try to squeeze out as money as possible from their users as soon as the "growth" phase has been completed.

jrmg 3y ago

You need an Arc account to use Arc too, don’t you?

distract8901 3y ago

GitHub has started showing me a persistent login pop-out on certain pages. Literally no way to dismiss it, so I just uBlocked the element. I don't really want to log in to GitHub in the first place. If I'm there its to check out a public repo. I haven't pushed anything in years, I use my own server now.