slazer2au comments on Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This article is about Claude Desktop, the Electron-based macOS application

So you are bitching a chrome browser reconfiged your other chrome browser.....

[–] tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It is a bit of a nothingburger, but it's important to note that Electron apps normally bundle their own chromium instance within itself and don't use other browsers. I suspect this is done to potentially support working directly with browsers you have installed.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It’s going to take creds out of your browser, spawn a new one not in the browser sandbox and act as the user to complete tasks. What tasks? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

to lazy to read but sounds like its related to its front end testing mcp which you would expect to have access to browser configs when needed especially for playwright

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