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Claude Code sends your email address to websites

Claude Code sends your email address to websites

9 hours ago

Bug Report: Privacy violation in User-Agent header #107757

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Bug Description

I receive dozens of scam emails per day because claude code divulged my email to arbitrary 3rd parties in the User-Agent request header while conducting web searches without my permission. This should not be a setting with opt-out or opt-in behavior, it needs to be removed from the harness entirely. It is not for the good of anyone involved: it does nothing for services which dislike agentic traffic, does not preserve my anonymity on the web, and is a goldmine for scammers. I am migrating my company to Pi with OpenRouter since I have no faith in anthropic preserving my privacy.

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  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: tmux
  • Version: 2.1.318
  • Feedback ID: f81eb83d-9b95-4788-8773-d3fae8f0cec4
Reacted by Klughertz Jonathan, Netkas, Sebastian Hooker, ryanlsmith, Tyler Coffman, InventorBlack, TacoDevs, Luis Diaz, Dan Avery, wei and 13 more

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  1. Netkas commented on Nov 5, 2026

    @Netkas
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    Corporations care about your privacy

    Lol

    Reacted by Luis Diaz, Marc, tomcodes, Alejandro AR, Dametto Luca, Dan M, Kia, Muhammad Usman, Corv and Nathaniel Leslie
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