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@jrdepriest@infosec.exchange @thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social It would be fine to say: claude desktop integrates with chromium derived browsers in ways I didn't expect. It's an entire other bridge to call it spyware
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@jrdepriest@infosec.exchange @thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social the desktop app already runs as the user? There's no escalation of privilege, you're doing what the user wants.
Like, the Claude app could spawn a localhost webserver and the extension could call out to it and achieve the same thing.
More importantly there's no spying or beginning of spying? A desktop app could just use playwright, or directly read the cookies on disk or or or... Spyware has to mean something or definitions become meaningless
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@thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social I read the article - what's the spyware part?
Claude can talk to Claude if you later install a browser extension?
I finished migrating my blog from WordPress to a static site (hugo) because of all the WP craziness, and 1) https://pagefind.app is awesome and 2) I chose not to enable ActivityPub due to receiving 99% spam from before. I suppose that's the downside of an open protocol
Really wishing we still had Josh Atencio in the midfield these days. Dotson seems below replacement value right now. No bite in defense and nothing to offer going forwards
#InboxZero tonight after cleaning up two years of email. Needed something calming after the Mexico England game