That was an even more ridiculous post. It wasn't spyware, it was a messaging bridge being installed for exactly the purpose it was intended. It was Claude Desktop installing a bridge that would allow Claude browser plugins to communicate with it. It was only used if the user had installed the browser plugin, and all it did was grant that plugin access to the app that had installed it!

So it's a backdoor to bypass the browser sandbox. Spyware is an apt label for that.

It's not a backdoor: it's using a feature for the purpose for which it was designed. It's not granting plugins access to anything except itself

It's the sheer gall of doing shit like that on my system without asking me. Creating a shitload of files to modify the settings of OTHER apps, wtaf?

I asked Codex to look into it: https://i.imgur.com/lvOjR0x.png