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AI-based chromium forks are becoming as common as AI-based visual studio code forks. I wouldn't be surprised if AI-based Linux distros started becoming popular too. Seems the ideal workflow is to fork off of existing open-source solutions, add paid features and lock behind paywall, make profit.
Cautiously optimistic that Browser Wars 2 will right many wrongs. Chrome is so bloated now.
Comet, Arc, and these other challenger browsers will hopefully light a fire under Google
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a landing page about a new browser and then...

> Venus is brilliant in our sky, but brutal up close. Once possibly Earth-like, it fell into a runaway greenhouse state. Now it simmers under acid clouds, its surface hot enough to melt lead. It spins backward, slowly and strangely, like a world rewound in time.

a bunch of facts about planets?

i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me

is this a real innovation in the browser UX, or just a ploy to vacuum up as much data as possible?

you can never trust VC backed startups to do things for the users' net benefit

The later
The scroll hijacking on this site itself erodes my trust in this being a browser I want to use because it demonstrates a lack of understanding of the web.
A "new" browser in the '20s is the equivalent of a browser toolbar in the '00s. It's not a product, it's a feature.
Solve the captcha/scraping problem by scraping directly in the browser. Genius
is that the spyware browser?
Excited for this & curious how it will compare with Dia.

Launch site feels busy, though.

As far as I know, Dia have a waiting list atm?
Scrolljacking aside, why do the images on the page have the trademark yellow hue from ChatGPT generated images?
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Is there a simple english summary of what this is and what it does before I download it?
Am I overlooking something or is this just a link to a waitlist? There isn't actually a release yet, right?
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This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.

They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, with still no hint of the product.

I have a year subscription with perplexity and use it everyday for search. Honest reaction from getting started page demos for comet “I would not want that”
What a fucking awful website what the fuck is happening when I tried to scroll?
Holds up a mirror to the uselessness of modern human existence.

What are we doing here?

Automated trekking bag purchasing.

This https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted should be the home page, the current homepage should be somewhere else, you want to quickly introduce the app / service and answer the visitors first question, "what is this?"

Instead the home page hijacked my scrollbar and walked me through Perplexitys core values, principles and then introduced the whole planetary system before ending up in a FAQ!? Wth

Team Perplexity, you can do better than this, your business is all about distilling fluff into concrete answers, your website should portray the same message, this does not

I've been using Dia for about a month. Dia is made by The Browser Company of New York, best known for the Arc browser [1].

Dia is a fabulous piece of work--it's much more than Chrome + a chatbot.

You can tell they thought deeply what would it mean for AI to be integrated into a browser, not just tacked on.

It's still in beta, but even at this stage, it's quite polished.

The custom skills are a killer feature. You'll wonder why every browser doesn't have it [2][3].

[1]: https://www.diabrowser.com

[2]: https://www.caneraras.com/learn/browser-skills-gallery

[3]: "Dia Browser Review in 120 seconds: The AI-First Browser Reimagining Web Interaction" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijHiDCU4zc