alt Hacker NewsClaude Code sends your email address to websites
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Thank you Misanthropic for reminding the world you cannot be trusted to organise a piss up in a brewery.
"Devs shocked when random number generator produces unpredictable results."
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Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286306
Claude Code slyly adding users' emails to outbound HTTP
Another piece of evidence that Claude Code is a scam project. It is being subsidized by venture capital funding.
Repeat after me: the harness and the sandbox are separate tools.
The really sad thing is how claude took over so many repositories.
People just claude-slop not only code but some use it for "interacting" with other people.
When I see a project uses AI slop I am not going to waste any second thinking "this is interesting, let me try to see if I can improve the code". It kind of killed a lot of human contributions. I just stick to people who don't AI slop, but these seem to slowly die off now ... soon all humans may have been converted, just like in the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers (slop-style)" - coming out soon.
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curl -sS https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages \
-H "authorization: Bearer $(security find-generic-password -s 'Claude Code-credentials' -w | jq -r .claudeAiOauth.accessToken)" \
-H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
-H "anthropic-beta: oauth-2025-04-20" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model":"claude-opus-5-5",
"max_tokens":64,
"system":"You are Claude Code, Anthropic'\''s official CLI for Claude.",
"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello, world!"}]
}'
That is just so disgusting. So happy I switched away from Anthropic.
For the record, I just asked Astra to verify that Codex does NOT do this, and it doesn't. Thanks for not screwing this up, OpenAI.
> I checked your installed Codex CLI 0.159.0, using your existing configuration.
> Its reported User-Agent contains the client/version, OS/architecture, and terminal—no email address.
Astra wasn't able to check OpenAI’s "hosted search service" though, whatever that is.