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WOW, but in a bad way.

The premise of the article is the author discovered hidden, unauthorized bridge code for chromium-based browsers, buried in his laptop macOS, apparently written by Anthropic Claude, and he was understandably pissed off.

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

That Privacy Guy!Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!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.
Jul 5, 2026, 04:11 UTCen
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