Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

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.

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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
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Jul 4, 2026, 12:00 UTCen