[lonelyasacloud]

tbh; blocking Arc's browser may give a little respite, but using AI enhanced browsing and search is so compelling that it will be everywhere (already elements of it in Edge) and there will be no blocking it.

This is essentialy what Google figured out when ChatGPT turned up; having a business model reliant on the bulk of your ad viewers continuing to use technologies that are 10-100x worse so that they can carry on seeing your ads has zero future.

Similar logic applies to every other website reliant on ads.

Going forward the only viable options appear either paywall, or hope for some form of as yet undecided redistributive pay-per-use arrangement to come through from OpenAI/Google/MS/Apple/Facebook/Government in the way that happened with music.

Interesting times we find ourselves in ...