<![CDATA[Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:]]>Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:

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

]]>https://forum.other.li/topic/c6783847-4748-4858-aaa8-317d1081fe3c/can-confirm-this-for-arc-brave-edge-chromium-and-vivaldi-on-my-machineRSS for NodeMon, 20 Apr 2026 22:07:51 GMTMon, 20 Apr 2026 15:11:24 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine: on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:33:57 GMT]]>@matthiasott simple solution = fuck Claude and its desktop.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116056513631316930/statuses/116437997174329454https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116056513631316930/statuses/116437997174329454Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:33:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine: on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:33:43 GMT]]>@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?

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mas.to/users/macronaut/statuses/116437996215215206https://forum.other.li/post/https://mas.to/users/macronaut/statuses/116437996215215206Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:33:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine: on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:30:44 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.social/users/matthiasott/statuses/116437984529543848https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.social/users/matthiasott/statuses/116437984529543848Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:30:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine: on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:07:51 GMT]]>@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. 😉

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://masto.es/ap/users/116424305986364845/statuses/116437894506414230https://forum.other.li/post/https://masto.es/ap/users/116424305986364845/statuses/116437894506414230Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:07:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine: on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:56:41 GMT]]>Even Claude says this is bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe you should have asked your country of geniuses in a vending machine before deploying this… 😉

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.social/users/matthiasott/statuses/116437850641715887https://forum.other.li/post/https://mastodon.social/users/matthiasott/statuses/116437850641715887Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:56:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine: on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:56:24 GMT]]>@matthiasott Seriously, are people these days so criminally.stupid to install such ?

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://jorts.horse/users/kkarhan/statuses/116437849491645535https://forum.other.li/post/https://jorts.horse/users/kkarhan/statuses/116437849491645535Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:56:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine: on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:54:44 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://chaos.social/users/saxnot/statuses/116437842957852311https://forum.other.li/post/https://chaos.social/users/saxnot/statuses/116437842957852311Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:54:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine: on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:37:29 GMT]]>@matthiasott Wild.

]]>https://forum.other.li/post/https://fediverse.zachleat.com/users/zachleat/statuses/116437775121410173https://forum.other.li/post/https://fediverse.zachleat.com/users/zachleat/statuses/116437775121410173Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:37:29 GMT