Comment by Razengan

15 hours ago

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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ascorbic  8 hours 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!

  • account42  6 hours ago

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

    • ascorbic  3 hours 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

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