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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop (www.thatprivacyguy.com)

submitted 6 months ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/security@programming.dev

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[–] 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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