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Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet

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Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law
One app should not modify another app without asking for and receiving your explicit consent. Yet Anthropic's Claude Desktop for macOS installs files that affect other vendors' applications without disclosure, even before those applications have been installed, and authorizes browser extensions without consent.…

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