Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine?

timfsu

I might call it a few different things, but spyware seems disingenuous until we learn that it’s actually spying…

bpodgursky

You should not install Claude Desktop or Claude Code unless you trust Anthropic. You either trust them to be a responsible custodian of your compute environment or you don't. I mean it almost doesn't matter what is installed at any given time, the agent is going to install stuff you can't realistically observe, the software will auto-update, there is simply no way you can be sure spyware won't end up on your computer.

jimmydoe

I double Anthropic did this, as apparently people copy this manually and it's still not working : https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14616 Of course if they actually did it, without your consent, that's really really bad.

ibash

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.