VCs invest in emerging technologies like virtual reality and "artificial intelligence" because there is the potential to become a fixture of a small economy and grow with it. The time to do this with web browsers was in the 90s. The browser market isn't growing, and it is already cornered by one of the largest monopolies in the world. They can't be undercut on price (Chrome is effectively a loss-leader to promote Google's other properties). They can't be outspent on R&D. If you are seeking VC, you need to produce a return on investment somehow, and there is no way to do that without selling out the end users in an even more devious way than Google. There is no viable capitalist development model for web browsers. It is the kind of infrastructure which needs to be funded with grants or state funding.

It was clear when they ran influencer marketing on youtube, that there was a lot of marketing money, and the hype was artificial. They chose people who didn't know any other browsers existed other than chrome and firefox. Like they were surprised of tiniest feature that's not on chrome but were mature in browsers like vivaldi and others.

Kind of feels bad because it was the only good Chromium Browser

looks like you bought into that hype. Vivaldi is way more customizable and feature rich than Arc.

I have been liking Zen too. Hopefully it lasts!

Why did you prefer it over firefox?

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