Claude Code sends your email address to websites

Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by agentdev001 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:00PM (#50387628)

For those keeping score, this probably isnt exhaustive- but here's some greatest hits;

#55743: Claude Max account email auto-injected into LLM context with no opt-out - May 3, 2026 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/55743

#72518: Anthropic embedded spyware in Claude Code - June 30, 2026 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/72518

#21151: No indication of WHICH file for READ tool - January 27, 2026 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/21151

#42796: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates - April 2, 2026 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

#73408: AFK auto-continue on unanswered AskUserQuestion is undocumented and has no opt-out - July 2, 2026 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/73408

(Also worth a mention, OpenCode PR #18186: anthropic legal requests - March 19, 2026 https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pull/18186)

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by beeandapenguin on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:40PM (#50387875)

> deterministic hooks not firing.

We went from building skyscrapers to building a house of cards.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by andrekandre on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:11PM (#50388078)

i'm sure somebody will come up with a solution; the barrier has never been lower to reinvent the flat tire...

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by partyficial on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:40PM (#50388293)

using an imaginative tool to do a deterministic task is more idiotic than... i can't come up with a metaphor.

LLMs were meant to be the ministers, not the king.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by teiferer on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:46PM (#50388338)

Both things true but not actually the same.

Or would you be fine with a deterministic king?

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by faidit on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:05AM (#50391863)

Generally speaking, yes it would be preferable to a fickle or arbitrary king.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by teiferer on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:36AM (#50392808)

Preferring sth bad over sth worse is not the same thing as being fine with the former.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by kamban on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:31AM (#50388904)

Treating them like kings was our mistake in the first place. Give it another year, we're going to see a lot more blunders.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by bunderbunder on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:56AM (#50392338)

I’m honestly fascinated by how our profession is simultaneously having something of a crisis over all these arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities that keep getting found, and totally hype about explicitly granting the ability to execute arbitrary code and commands on our developer workstations over to an opaque third party service running on servers operated by companies that are now known to be unbelievably lax about cybersecurity.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by partyficial on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:01PM (#50395004)

because the camel cannot see its own hump only others'

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by neya on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:11AM (#50388468)

Claude also has the highest number of apologists on here, so watch them come up with every possible explanation of why Claude can do no wrong. You can already see the top comment brush the issue off like it is nothing wrong.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by foobar_______ on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:16AM (#50392538)

So true. They come crawling out of every hole to defend Claude. It’s absurd and frankly disgusting.

People have put so much weight and sense of self worth into choosing “the best” or most pure LLM. It’s like football teams or religion to these people.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by nullbio on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:01AM (#50389080)

Here's some more greatest hits: https://clawd.rip - a whole site dedicated to them. Unfortunately the owner seems to have stopped updating it though.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by roboyoshi on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:31AM (#50390613)

I love that it's made with AI/LLM, maybe even claude itself. Even the site that lists the flaws of the system is made with that system. Simply shows me that people are not scared off by all those flaws.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by kbr- on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:36AM (#50392809)

System having flaws does not imply system is useless. Linux has many flaws, we still use it and love it.

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by Creamsicle47 on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:00AM (#50389455)

coding is solved. bugs not solved yet. fix incoming

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by partyficial on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:02PM (#50395027)

reminds me of that Seinfeld episode -

"Anyone can just TAKE a reservation. It's the HOLDING..."

"Anyone can just CODE a program. It's the TESTING..."

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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites by Melatonic on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:49PM (#50395694)

[delayed]

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