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Claude Code may be leaking your email to websites 🕵️
A user opened a GitHub issue: according to them, when doing web searches Claude Code passes their email to third-party sites in the User-Agent header. After that, they started getting dozens of scam emails a day.
• the report is for version 2.1.318, macOS
• the author asks to remove this from the client entirely, rather than make it a setting
• the issue has 463 👍, and the topic is at the top of Hacker News (1221 points, 385 comments)
⚠️ For now this is a report from a single user, and there's no response from Anthropic visible in the source. If privacy matters to you, keep an eye on the issue.
GitHub issue
GitHubBug Report: Privacy violation in User-Agent header · Issue #107757 · anthropics/claude-codeOpen in Telegram ↗Translated from Russian