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Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by butlike on Thursday February 19, 2026 @10:45AM (#47075034)
You're touching on the eternal App Store debate. "It's my phone, I should be able to install whatever I want on it!" Which is true, but also hasn't been true since the mid-90s (early 2000s at the latest).
Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by skeledrew on Thursday February 19, 2026 @01:23PM (#47077113)
Not quite though. You can install Claude's apps wherever they're supported, and maybe even fiddle with the source code (I'm unsure). And you can use any other coding apps that you want. The only real restriction is how those apps are allowed to connect to the providers' services, which are running on their servers, etc. There's a movement from "my local domain" to "their remote domain", and they're allowed to have full control of theirs as you - would prefer, I think - full control of yours.