Claude Code sends your email address to websites

Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by mpoteat on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:41PM (#50386185)

Some sites like Wikipedia have a policy where scripted clients identify themselves, and there's a standard in HTTP to have a contact email in the User-Agent for such cases. Claude apparently tends to decide that this policy is worth following, and we now disallow this programmatically.

This is why alignment is important and highly non-trivial haha

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by swatcoder on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:45PM (#50386226)

> This is why alignment is important and highly non-trivial haha

FYI, it's generally bad form to "haha" your way through privacy violations.

Leaking private information is a very big deal for a lot of people.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by BowBun on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:46PM (#50386723)

The stealth edit, ugh. I don't like this social presence when they're failing to leverage their own automations to catch like this before the masses.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by phoghed on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:56PM (#50387190)

You people will complain about literally anything Jesus. You gave a coding agent full fucking control of your computer, let it send requests without your review, and then are surprised when it does so. But no, it’s this guy’s fault. Certainly couldn’t be you own.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by swatcoder on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:05PM (#50387246)

I didn't do any of those things and this issue doesn't effect me, but I've been around long enough to know how to take responsibility for my work and how to respect the concerns of affected customers when speaking as a professional.

Anthropic has an engineering culture problem that's going to shoot it in the foot if it doesn't learn to take these kinds of issues seriously.

This isn't the first example of the kind of work they're shipping in Claude Code or in how flippantly they engage with the community.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by h0rv on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:48PM (#50386249)

> This is why alignment is important and highly non-trivial haha

I disagree, we can likely never fully (or should?) trust models to do these things deterministically, that's why we have harnesses around the agent with built-in constraints.

It is actually in the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harness, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_harness

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by christina97 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:22PM (#50386525)

I cannot believe Anthropic’s official response to having presumably sprayed a significant portion of customers’ emails and private information straight out into the web willy nilly is basically “[it’s] highly non-trivial haha”.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by echoangle on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:27PM (#50386568)

Glad you can find the humor in the situation.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by cluckindan on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:45AM (#50389004)

>haha

This is an official Anthropic response???

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