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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by rvz on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:42PM (#50386694)
According to vibe coders, the future is never reading what the code actually does. You just trust coding agents with everything and "give into the vibes" even when it "says" its correct.

Offshoring understanding is the trend that many companies will pay in the form of comprehension debt.

Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by ryandrake on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:55PM (#50386799)
You just have to tell it "make no mistakes" bro!
Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by bdangubic on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:13PM (#50386930)
mistake is in the eyes of the beholder ;)
Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by augment_me on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:54PM (#50387170)
I mean it's a fair take, your email is probably leaked anyways. Mine is breached 32 times on HaveIBeenPwned with various passwords. Who cares at this point really it's just an inconvenience
Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by skinfaxi on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:10PM (#50387273)
You wouldn't share it here though right? So there is some level of care?
Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by augment_me on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:16PM (#50387309)
I wouldn't share it here to not be able to have the average person link me with my work as some opinions expressed would perhaps get me in trouble, beyond that no there is no care, it's on my website, it's on my work profile page already, scrape and spam.
Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by teiferer on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:52PM (#50388379)
Anything you wouldn't do yourself you'd not be comfortable CC doing on your behalf, right? So, you do care.
Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by augment_me on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:02AM (#50388425)
CC does not share(and does not have access to) my personal thought, opinions and other things than can affect my employment that I might want to share anonymously.

I am not sure what is hard about this distinction to grasp, why would it matter if CC shared my email if I share my email on my own websites?

Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by imtringued on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:26AM (#50389620)
I need your email address with your real name to prove that you are not a bot.

This is strictly needed for throttling reasons, your email address will only be temporarily stored in the volatile memory of the device.

(If you think there is anything wrong with this then you do get the point and silence speaks louder than words)

Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by teiferer on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:35AM (#50392782)
Anything that it has access to it can potentially share.

The solution is, like you are already alluding to, to not give it access. But that requires a level of isolation that folks normally don't do. To the contrary, the AI agent ads to non-tech folks emphasize it acting like a personal assistant which by its nature needs access to data you don't normally want public. Emails, photos, files with written notes, etc.

Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by xpct on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:10AM (#50390445)
I'm happy to say that my main email that I've been using for 15+ years hasn't been leaked, because I've been very careful on how I share it. Getting it leaked by Claude would suck.
Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by wellcodeisnot on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:34AM (#50390634)
That's not because "vibes" but because focusing on "code" is the wrong level of abstraction altogether. It always was. We just didn't have the technology to let it go, but now we do.

Code is a reflection. Of what? Look there. Code itself is useless.

Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by olmo23 on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:17AM (#50391480)
According to C-programmers, the future is never reading the assembly that the compiler actually generates. You just trust the compiler with everything and "give into the vibes" even when it "says" it's correct.

(sorry, i think you make a good point, ... but i could not resist.)