Claude Code sends your email address to websites

Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by baxtr on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:40PM (#50387084)

But if I wanted to collect data I could just change my website’s download policy and require full name and email?

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by y1n0 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:48PM (#50387133)

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by skinfaxi on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:04PM (#50387243)

The difference is that claude won't lie though. You could put whatever email you want in headers to SEC.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by post-it on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:55PM (#50387594)

It'll lie if you ask it to.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by skinfaxi on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:40PM (#50387874)

Defaults are important. Bots want (read: the makers of models want) to put their signature on commits but not requests.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by cs02rm0 on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:13AM (#50390931)

Or payment.

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