Lots of developers and power users make a good chunk of Arc's use base. If you're after some interesting credentials then "every Arc user" is a perfect group with little noise.

Having arbitrary browser access would be pretty valuable, even for just a small number of users.

> As of July 2023, The Browser Company has 100,000+ users

https://www.boringbusinessnerd.com/startups/the-browser-comp...

That's a year ago. Looking at how upvoted this bug has been, they do have many users

my brother uses arc browser , he is a developer . I think he saw it from somebody using it (maybe theo t3 or some other creator he watches) , and he found it cool (plus there were lot of videos flooded with saying arc is really great IDK)

If someone finds something cool on the internet. They are going to try it , given that they are capable to do so.

He had a mac so he was able to do so , Even I tried to run arc on windows once when it was really beta and only available to mac (I think now it supports windows not sure)

I just kindly want to state that if the nsa could've bought this exploit , they could've simply waited and maybe even promote arc themselves (seems unlikely)

Maybe they could've tried to promote the numbers of arc users by trying to force google and microsoft search engine through some secret shady company advertising / writing blog posts for arc / giving arch funding or like how we know that there are secret courts in america

( and since these search engines basically constitutes for a high percentage of discovery of stuff by search engine by users)

People could've credited the success to arc in that case for getting more users but the real winner would've been NSA.