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Pulse of Truth@infosec.pubEnglish · 15 days ago

Claude Desktop installs undocumented browser extensions for Chrome and other browsers

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Claude Desktop installs undocumented browser extensions for Chrome and other browsers

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Pulse of Truth@infosec.pubEnglish · 15 days ago

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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

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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.

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rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
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They’re listed in the installation pages from what I recall. I unselected them and have no spurious browser extensions installed.
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  Pretty sure it installs it anyway
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    I have no spurious browser extensions installed. In case you missed it the first time.

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