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by awill 1058 days ago
I dislike when companies gives themselves names like this "The Browser company"

Just like the hotel in Las Vegas called "The Hotel". Is it arrogance, or ignorance?

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I'd say it's arrogance with genuine belief that they have this breakthrough idea about web browser UI/UX - hard to say technology because as others spotted, this thing is based on Chromium. And this belief perhaps justify enough naming themselves in some "we're the ones, the truly original" somewhat hipster fashion.

I don't see anywhere mentioned this browser having access to Chrome extensions so for me, even if I'd be slightly interested in testing this (and it would be still possible on my Intel Macbook) it's a hard miss. Not being able to block ads and tracking elements in 20s is out of the question and no fancy annotation or vertical tabs feature with grouping compensates this. Guess this thing aims at those who don't mind their privacy being violated - perhaps all sorts of influencers.

The only thing they got are Boosts which seem to be kind of user scripts feature