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A few fundamental issues:

> the browser largely still does what it did twenty-five years ago

Maybe that's by design? The browser (at least major ones) can be easily extended the way the user wants; if they want something which helps them not get distracted, there's an extension for that (like the one which blocked the FB newsfeed). There are other extensions to remember URLs, and search is better than ever if you are opting to save your browser history.

Also, if you say you're fundamentally changing the browser, at least mention how? What are your core ideas of the redesign, apart from a few random and vague use cases? Without that, the site is just a pretty placeholder.

> The five of us learned a lot from working at a handful of startups, as well as Snap, Instagram, Facebook, Amazon, and the Obama White House

and

> Beyond our team, we’re lucky to be supported by our family and friends, as well as investors who played a role in some of our favorite software companies over the years (Airtable, DuckDuckGo, Github, Instagram, Slack, Stripe)

The experience you mention is _definitely_ not the same I would trust in building a new brower, except perhaps DDG. The last thing I want is people from FB/Amazon/Snap telling my how my browser should behave.




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