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0 pointsRazengan4d ago0 comments

Hey if people could go for their pitchforks and torches over Apple giving them a free U2 album that ate up limited device storage space,

we have every right to be upset at Google's audacity to suddenly gobble up 4 fucking GB

Also from the same webiste, Claude installing spyware: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

but discussion about that seems to have been suppressed on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Anthropic+spyware

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ascorbic4d ago

That was an even more ridiculous post. It wasn't spyware, it was a messaging bridge being installed for exactly the purpose it was intended. It was Claude Desktop installing a bridge that would allow Claude browser plugins to communicate with it. It was only used if the user had installed the browser plugin, and all it did was grant that plugin access to the app that had installed it!

account424d ago

So it's a backdoor to bypass the browser sandbox. Spyware is an apt label for that.

ascorbic4d ago

It's not a backdoor: it's using a feature for the purpose for which it was designed. It's not granting plugins access to anything except itself

RazenganOP3d ago

It's the sheer gall of doing shit like that on my system without asking me. Creating a shitload of files to modify the settings of OTHER apps, wtaf?

I asked Codex to look into it: https://i.imgur.com/lvOjR0x.png

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ascorbic4d ago

account424d ago

So it's a backdoor to bypass the browser sandbox. Spyware is an apt label for that.

ascorbic4d ago

It's not a backdoor: it's using a feature for the purpose for which it was designed. It's not granting plugins access to anything except itself

RazenganOP3d ago

It's the sheer gall of doing shit like that on my system without asking me. Creating a shitload of files to modify the settings of OTHER apps, wtaf?

I asked Codex to look into it: https://i.imgur.com/lvOjR0x.png

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