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Is Impervious Browser a Complete Failure?

402 sats \ 17 comments \ @siggy47 1 Feb 2023 bitcoin

When the Impervious Browser was announced at Bitcoin 2022 it seemed to me that the bitcoin community was very excited by the news. Its features seemed to check all the boxes: Decentralized, built on bitcoin, LN native, open source code.

Upon its release, there was some concern regarding its terms of service surrounding the issue of content ownership, which I think was ultimately resolved.

Matthew Kratter of Trader University mentioned it in December and promised a review, but he's been silent about it since.

Is anyone using it?

Are there any comprehensive reviews of the product anywhere?

What's going on?

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227 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 1 Feb 2023

Downloaded it in November. I will let you know what I think as soon as it loads. Just kidding. It is ok but works super slow with my vpn.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Feb 2023

Why don't you just test it and tell us your opinion?

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 1 Feb 2023

Until recently I was a windows user, and there was a long delay in putting out a windows version. Ultimately it was released, but for some reason I could not get it to load on my laptop.

I recently switched to Linux and I'm still learning the os, which is proving to be a pretty deep rabbit hole. Brave has been working great on my linux machine, so I haven't tried it yet.

Considering my problems with the windows version, I wanted to know what other people think first.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Feb 2023

For me personally is not a real necessity to use it. That's why I still didn't install it.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @ski 1 Feb 2023

They are building a p2p chat/nostr client. I wouldn’t rule them out yet

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @patrick 1 Feb 2023

What pain point is it actually solving? That's the issue imo.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @muteness11 1 Feb 2023

While I never tried Imervious myself, its worth sharing that One thing I've learned before becoming a Bitcoiner is the tendency for companies to over-sell their products/services by selling stories of the "possibilities"

I certainly see that in the Bitcoin space via company announcement or founders expectedly selling (on podcasts) their idea/product/service on why its gonna be huge.

Better approach any new idea/product/service by eliminating all the marketing jargon and think YOUR SELF why will it work/ wont work? what are the possibilities/opportunities/challenges?

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @elzonte 1 Feb 2023

Impervious fucked up hugely by featuring a @wef member as their sponsored keynote speaker at Miami 2022.

Then they blocked anyone on Twitter pointing out that FACT.

I hope they fail spectacularly

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 1 Feb 2023

Really? I will have to look into this.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 1 Feb 2023

I don't think it's a failure. I prefer not to think of things like that. It's too early to tell really. Building a browser is really hard.

I interviewed at Mighty (now defunct) and turned down an offer because the team seemed burned out. (Kind of a tangent, but I've also worked at companies where the product's main angle was performance - it's a grind.)

Anyway, they are smart people. Even if they haven't succeeded by your standards, it doesn't mean they've failed.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jonathan_Adly 1 Feb 2023

Too much friction for a browser to be honest. A classic case of too much features and complexity out of the gate.

I just wanted a browser with no ads/tracking where I can natively interact with lighting ranging from robosats to LNMatlets to tipping random strangers.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudonaka 1 Feb 2023

What is their business model? They had all that VC. I feel better about Brave since the token scheme is relatively open and understandable.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire 1 Feb 2023

I tried to test it when it "launched", but the installer crashed on my Mac. Catastrophic error for any product launch. But yeah you didn't need a PhD to see they were noobs and had too many features in the initial release, wouldn't be surprised if it is a failure.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Roll 1 Feb 2023

From yesterday :

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 1 Feb 2023

I watched that. In fact, this video is why I made the post. The five and a half minute clip released yesterday on YouTube was taken from an October podcast. There seems to be a complete lack of recent reviews. By the way, @DarthCoin made a good point when he asked me why don't I just download it myself and check it out, and this morning I did just that. Maybe I'll post my impressions at some point. In the meantime, I would like to read or watch a decent review from someone whose opinion I trust, like Matthew Kratter.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 1 Feb 2023

oki dok

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eximpius 1 Feb 2023

Runs fine on Arch Linux for me