Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
Anthropic silently installed a spyware bridge on my machine
I was working on a personal project, debugging a Native Messaging helper I had written for it. In the process I needed to check what Brave Browser had registered on my laptop. What I found was a file I had never put there. It was not mine. I had not installed it. I had not authorised it. I had not even been told about it.
It was from Anthropic.
The file sits at this path on my MacBook:
~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/B...
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