Claude Code sends your email address to websites

Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by canto on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:58PM (#50385739)

15 minutes ago, no proof, no code, no nothing except a random claim, main on hackernews. wtf?

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by altcognito on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:02PM (#50385772)

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/101659

Potentially reported back in October.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by dude250711 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:08PM (#50385845)

The coding is a bit too solved maybe?

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by ripbozo on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:08PM (#50385848)

had the same thing happen to me. claude added the email address while dowloading stuff from crates.io, for some reason. you can probably easily reproduce this by asking claude to download stuff from a service that asks users to identify themselves in the user agent.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by mustaphah on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:18PM (#50385956)

It's crazy how easily people upvote stuff even when the source doesn't provide any evidence!

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by cromka on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:08PM (#50386405)

It's not crazy if you notice their dev admitted to it in this very thread.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by canto on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:22PM (#50395340)

There was literally 3 meaningless comments before mine in this thread and no proof in the original issue and it still went viral.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by mkl on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:28PM (#50386051)

July: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/81138

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