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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by sunaookami on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:16PM (#50385931)
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 [email protected]. 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

Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by arcanemachiner on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:42PM (#50386186)
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.
Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by mkl on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:44PM (#50386216)
Fixed link: https://pastebin.com/PkWEQCnu

How would one use this?