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Posted by motoroco 22 hours ago

Claude Code sends your email address to websites(github.com)
1526 points | 479 commentspage 6
sunaookami 21 hours ago|
It's because Claude Code inserts a "hidden" (e.g. not visible to the user and very unexpected) info block to the system prompt that shows your email:

>The user's email address is xxx@example.com. Use it only to identify the user, such as for authorship, attribution, or filtering their own work. Never send it to an unrelated service, such as in a request header, URL, or payload, unless the user explicitly asks.

And Claude doesn't care about what the text says and when it uses cURL it will often "by accident" send your mail in the User-Agent. You can e.g. use a mod to remove that block: https://pastebin.com/ PkWEQCnu

mkl 20 hours ago||
Fixed link: https://pastebin.com/PkWEQCnu

How would one use this?

arcanemachiner 20 hours ago||
Ha, what an amateur move. As if we don't all know that the nondeterminism of LLMs ensures that these kind of slip-ups are inevitable.
TutleCpt 21 hours ago||
Oh man.
bix6 21 hours ago||
How do you test / verify this?
earth2mars 19 hours ago||
this is why i built https://heychap.net/ which uses a NER model or even local llm to redact PII before sending to coding agents or models.
addedGone 13 hours ago|
why zero effort on the branding? I don't think you have customers seeing the website but I hope for you I'm wrong.
earth2mars 2 hours ago||
you are not wrong. thank for taking time and replying. I need to spend money and time on branding. did you find it useful? have you tried it?! Its much more than privacy alone. but privacy is at the core of it. I find it most useful for live meeting notes, search across meeting notes, note taking and browser automation. It works with apple intelligence and other local models as well. it can even capture transcript with audio from device. mobile apps coming and i need do more. i would like know friction points in using it and improve it.
thibsrn 10 hours ago||
I don't know about other people, but my experience with Anthropic's products outside of the models themselves has been atrocious. The models are really good obviously, and have changed how all of us work, but their client software, be it Claude desktop, Claude on the web and Claude Code is bug-ridden, with an incoherent feature set and invasive behaviors.
00deadbeef 10 hours ago|
But why is the harness so bad when it’s built with the best models? And presumably models better than we have access to?

How can they claim coding is solved when Claude Code is so terrible?

turtleburger 19 hours ago||
Only Claude code or do others share the same issue?
atls 17 hours ago||
I don't understand why Claude is provided with my email address in the first place. Claude, by default, should know nothing about me.
mococa 6 hours ago||
This is a rape of our privacy...
albert_e 19 hours ago||
does this happen with enterprise users of Claude as well? including Claude hosted via AWS for example?
Kim_Bruning 7 hours ago|
And here I did it on purpose!

I made a proxy that slows and caches my requests and deliberately sends my mail address to certain sites; to be polite. (eg to wikipedia)

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