Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

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   Alexander Hanff (thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2026 00:09:33 JST Alexander Hanff

   Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

   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.

   https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware

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