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

Post by rekttrader » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 7:41 PM UTC

Post by sleepybrett » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 7:47 PM UTC

dbalatero wrote: post #11

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.

I suspect that while they prefer you to give up all your data, what's even more likely is they are moving fast and breaking things at a rate unseen before, and not enough conversation is happening in design phases where someone can flag that "Hey if you add this new prompt it might break an important user contract you forgot about." In either case annoying still.

Post by throw1234567891 » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 8:00 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".

Post by nikanj » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 8:19 PM UTC

soared wrote: post #8

That support quote is from an LLM. If you have any escalation paths (twitter, or this thread lol) there may still be a way to change it back.

Post by buzer » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 8:38 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”?