thibsrn

Thank you for sharing, it is a really interesting read. It expands on the different approaches that try to explain individuals' behaviors in a group. It is always good when there is some variety on HN and we get a bit of social sciences !

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The title sets a lot of blame on the bank, but there might be other factors at play. It is possible that either national or european regulations or laws makes it mandatory for the banks to comply with a set of security features that makes it impossible for them to offer services to degoogled phones. There might not be any alternative because it would cost too much money to develop and more importantly to distribute it. It can also be the case that Google uses its influence over the android open source project to make sure it will never be the case.

There is a lot that is added to the prompt to lower friction, which in a lot of cases is really useful even if the user doesn't realise it. I think an Anthropic dev explained somewhere else in this thread that they added it for the model not to try to hallucinate your idendity when committing on git.

It's the same thing with web browsers. The browser adds my preferred language and operating system to the user-agent header, this way I can access the right content and download the right version of software quicker. I wouldn't want it to share my social security number but some sharing is alright to me. The problem here is people didn't know it was happening.

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I don't know about other people, but my experience with Anthropic's products outside of the models themselves has been atrocious. The models are really good obviously, and have changed how all of us work, but their client software, be it Claude desktop, Claude on the web and Claude Code is bug-ridden, with an incoherent feature set and invasive behaviors.

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