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I feel like Arc is just exposing a problem users have felt for a long time, but has been ignored: most of the web is now spam.

Ads everywhere, deceptive and janky cookie pop ups, low quality click bait journalism lacking substance (ie using hundreds of words to say very little) and publishing platforms charging for that garbage, sites that steal/scrape content and rank higher because of black hat SEO, people inflating content (like recipes, but that's always been a meme I suppose) so there's more breakpoints where ads can be injected, now there's also AI generated posts/articles (don't mean Arc using them to distil content)

The web has become toxic, and Arc just feels like a gas mask.

I use Arc for a few months now, and using this feature recently has been a breath of fresh (or filtered) air. On the other hand I also don't know how I feel about it in the long run. Some of the points in the article make sense, but also how long before Arc gets poisoned itself (which seems inevitable in tech)

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The point that Arc isn't really a "gas-mask" so much as it is a "coal-powered air filtration system." It makes your air clean but it poisons the rest of the environment.