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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!
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<p class="card-text line-clamp-3">Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.</p>
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</div><p></p><p>The blog post refers to the Brave-browser but I tracked this down on Vivaldi as well... Interesting read here! <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/261d.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--point_up" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="☝" alt="☝" /><img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f3fb.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--skin-tone-2" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="🏻" alt="🏻" /></p><p><a href="https://vargholm.dk/tags/anthropic" rel="tag">#<span>anthropic</span></a> <a href="https://vargholm.dk/tags/claude" rel="tag">#<span>claude</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/e292b487-e4f8-40e6-8b48-c31d2c2ad558/while-we-tried-to-protect-us-from-ransomware-for-years-ai-simply-puts-it-into-your-system-while-you-install-a-specific-desktop-app.</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 03:08:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/e292b487-e4f8-40e6-8b48-c31d2c2ad558.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:23:56 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl></channel></rss>