Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

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Post by doublescoop » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 8:49 PM UTC

sleepybrett wrote: post #5

surprise! the ai companies that stole every conceivable copywritten work to train their models doesn't want you to be able to have any privacy either.

But they sure seem awfully worried about other companies distilling their models. The irony is rich.

Re: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

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Post by cmdrmac » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 9:01 PM UTC

klibertp wrote: post #15

cmdrmac wrote: post #3

This bait-and-switch with privacy is what annoys me. I get that if the software was completely free, you are the product. But if I'm paying, why can I not have a privacy policy that actually benefits me - the user?

You're probably not paying nearly enough? IDK, but pricing in tech is stretched on both ends (either way too cheap, or incredibly expensive) so much that it's hard to say anything for sure just because one is a "paying customer".

Fair point. I'd add on that the company should explicitly spell out strong privacy as a feature then and charge more. Saying that "we won't use your data for training", but then not really meaning it is a bit disingenuous. How I interpret that statement may not necessarily align with the company (i.e., what kind of training?).

Re: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

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Post by ai_slop_hater » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 9:14 PM UTC

MetaWhirledPeas wrote: post #19

rekttrader wrote: post #12

Elon’s invisible hand strikes again.

The company was acquired days ago. You think this was implemented since then?

That company has always been garbage.

Re: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

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Post by Mona1 » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 9:20 PM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

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Post by sunaookami » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

klibertp wrote: post #15

cmdrmac wrote: post #3

This bait-and-switch with privacy is what annoys me. I get that if the software was completely free, you are the product. But if I'm paying, why can I not have a privacy policy that actually benefits me - the user?

You're probably not paying nearly enough? IDK, but pricing in tech is stretched on both ends (either way too cheap, or incredibly expensive) so much that it's hard to say anything for sure just because one is a "paying customer".

Did LLM companies pay everyone for the code and text they stole?

Re: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

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Post by matheusmoreira » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 9:29 PM UTC

> I honestly don't understand how it's legal

The legality is irrelevant since as consumers we don't have the time or the money to sue them for it. And even if one of us somehow do have both, we probably agreed to binding arbitration with the firm they pay anyway.

Re: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

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Post by matheusmoreira » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 9:31 PM UTC

cmdrmac wrote: post #3

This bait-and-switch with privacy is what annoys me. I get that if the software was completely free, you are the product. But if I'm paying, why can I not have a privacy policy that actually benefits me - the user?

Your payment is just a signal that you've got disposable income. You're paying to make yourself an even more valuable product for them to sell.

Re: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

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Post by matheusmoreira » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 9:40 PM UTC

sunaookami wrote: post #25

klibertp wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're probably not paying nearly enough? IDK, but pricing in tech is stretched on both ends (either way too cheap, or incredibly expensive) so much that it's hard to say anything for sure just because one is a "paying customer".

Did LLM companies pay everyone for the code and text they stole?

No, they just reached some absurd token settlements that made a mockery of all other copyright enforcement victims.

One would think dozens of SWAT officers would rappel down helicopters and storm the mansions of these big tech CEOs in order to bring them out in cuffs and serve zillion dollar fines on behalf of the so called rights holders. Kim Dotcom got destroyed while AI companies got a slap on the wrist.

Re: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

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Post by matheusmoreira » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 9:42 PM UTC

throw1234567891 wrote: post #16

klibertp wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're probably not paying nearly enough? IDK, but pricing in tech is stretched on both ends (either way too cheap, or incredibly expensive) so much that it's hard to say anything for sure just because one is a "paying customer".

> You're probably not paying nearly enough? What are the real prices then? What is the “privacy price”?

Some hundreds of thousands of dollars for a computer capable of local inference with GLM 5.2.

Re: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

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Post by leerob » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

(I work at Cursor) Sorry about this, we should have made this more clear. The new privacy mode is needed because we have to store some state to enable running agents in the cloud. If you don't want to use cloud agents, you can continue using the legacy privacy mode. Currently the mobile app requires this new privacy mode and won't work without it. We're pushing an update right now to make this more clear in app and can help you get reverted back to the legacy version on the support thread.