Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine?

Post by slopinthebag » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 3:17 AM UTC

marak830 wrote: post #31

I would have thought this would be more of a story, I'm surprised there are so few comments. "Claude Desktop, an Anthropic application, reached across the trust boundary between two independent vendors, and wrote configuration into Brave's application directory. The principle that an application does not silently modify another application is so obvious it rarely gets stated. Anthropic broke it in silence." This is t…

Post by marak830 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 8:30 AM UTC

slopinthebag wrote: post #32

marak830 wrote: post #31

I would have thought this would be more of a story, I'm surprised there are so few comments. "Claude Desktop, an Anthropic application, reached across the trust boundary between two independent vendors, and wrote configuration into Brave's application directory. The principle that an application does not silently modify another application is so obvious it rarely gets stated. Anthropic broke it in silence." This is t…

It's being suppressed by the mods. I'd bet my house on it.

Post by ibash » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 9:00 PM UTC

miguno wrote: post #23

ibash wrote: post #10

That’s not spyware, that’s just how native messaging is designed to work. You have to put a manifest there if you want the native messaging to work later.

With this argument you could also justify: "That's not a remote access trojan (RAT), that's just how client-server communication is designed to work." > You have to put a manifest there if you want the native messaging to work later. The point is that Claude Desktop didn't ask the user whether they want native messaging in the first place. Which is strange, given that users experience many "Do you grant permission to…