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”

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.

Is there a simple english summary of what this is and what it does before I download it?

Cautiously optimistic that Browser Wars 2 will right many wrongs. Chrome is so bloated now.

Excited for this & curious how it will compare with Dia.

Launch site feels busy, though.

Am I overlooking something or is this just a link to a waitlist? There isn't actually a release yet, right?

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.

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.

is that the spyware browser?

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

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.

I'm rooting for Ladybird[1], a brand-new browser from scratch, backed by a non-profit.

[1] https://ladybird.org

OpenAI Reaponse: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-releas...

Solve the captcha/scraping problem by scraping directly in the browser. Genius

Scrolljacking aside, why do the images on the page have the trademark yellow hue from ChatGPT generated images?

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

Comet, Arc, and these other challenger browsers will hopefully light a fire under Google