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Anthropic installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

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Anthropic installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 2 months ago

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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

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Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.

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No, not really solved. The problem is still Claude trying to install spyware and by extension the user that is trying to install Claude.

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