Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:

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Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:

#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

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@matthiasott Wild.

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@matthiasott what does the manifest do when none of the three whitelisted extensions are installed?
The article says on the authors machine it does nothing

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@matthiasott Seriously, are people these days so criminally.stupid to install such #Govware?

• #MicriaoftTeams is already #Spyware that illegally collects data and metrics, so what else did they expect from #Cyberfasicst #AIbros?

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Even Claude says this is bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe you should have asked your country of geniuses in a vending machine before deploying this…

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@matthiasott Thank very much for this important information. I think than all software for run A.I.'s (very bad if is cloud A.I.) violate the privacy of user. You can run the A.I. offline in local enviroment, with Open A.I., Lemonade, Ollama or other, but not is solution. All this software have hiden logs with the interaction between user and A.I., when you are online again, the hiden logs be send for this software. But nothing is impossible, we only go to find this log and delete her information.

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@saxnot Yes, if the three extensions are not installed, it is doing nothing, luckily. But the manifest is installed for browsers that aren’t even on the machine – so “does nothing now” is one install away from “does quite a lot.” And the consent failure already happened: Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive and most computer-misuse law are about placement, not execution, as I understand it.

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@matthiasott why are these browsers allowing this level of access without the explicit consent of the person!? Is Anthropic exploiting a bug in Chromium/browsers don’t can do this?

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@matthiasott simple solution = fuck Claude and its desktop.