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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by wzdd on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:16AM (#45063070)
Everywhere else in Anthropic's interface, yes/no switches show blue when enabled and black when disabled. In the box they're showing about this change the slider shows grey in both states: visit it in preferences to see the difference! It's not just disappointing but also kind of sad that someone went to the effort to do this.
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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by riz_ on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:20AM (#45063117)
This is probably because there are laws in some countries that restrict how these buttons/switches can look (think cookie banners, where sometimes there is a huge green button to accept, and a tiny greyed out text somewhere for the settings).
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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by soulofmischief on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:58AM (#45064227)
Can you provide an example?
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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by riz_ on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:20AM (#45064505)
https://www.cnil.fr/en/dark-patterns-cookie-banners-cnil-iss...
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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by gpm on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:09PM (#45066715)
This link is not even remotely close to an example of the behavior you described.
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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by senko on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:27AM (#45063179)
Just did and it behaves as expected for me in the Android app (ie. not the dark pattern you described)
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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by BalinKing on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:24AM (#45064551)
I can confirm it's grey on both sides on the website.
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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by tln on Friday August 29, 2025 @11:41AM (#45065542)
I get blue (on) / black (off) on the website. Or blue / white in light mode.

https://claude.ai/settings/data-privacy-controls

It was easy to not opt-in, I got prompted before I saw any of this.

I think they should keep the opt-in behavior past Sept 28 personally.

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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by IAmGraydon on Friday August 29, 2025 @02:00PM (#45067375)
They’re likely A/B testing the interface change, which is why people are getting inconsistent results
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Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude c... by Aurornis on Friday August 29, 2025 @11:27AM (#45065374)
It works correctly (blue on, grey off) in the iOS app. I just did it now.
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