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Anthropic installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
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[–] simone@lemmy.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don’t use chrome, problem solved.

[–] vratajin@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

somebody did not read the article

[–] TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no, he’s right in some way. claude desktop is spyware, but it only spies through chromium based browsers, so if you don’t use chrome, you’re safe … for now. until they install their backdoor in safari/ firefox based browsers too

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 4 points 23 hours ago

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