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As implemented, it strongly violates the principle of least surprise (assuming this is true).

A more sane implementation of this would involve a prompt the first time an agent attempts to connect to each of the sites that Anthropic thinks it necessary to send this email header to, asking if this is OK (and bailing on all requests to that domain if the prompt was rejected).

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> principle of least surprise

i’m not familiar with this

>” A more sane implementation of this would involve a prompt the first time an…”

but users of this type of software generally want an easy experience and don’t want to be bothered with details, only conveniently retrospectively users demand to be involved in the decisions.

it reminds me of a pattern I see in small business owner managers where they want to simultaneously be consulted about everything, but are never around the business. You can’t have it both ways.

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I must defend Anthropic. It is normal to tell every website who (email) and why (session slug) you are looking at a page they publish. The visited website has to be reassured for all the compliance they have to do and how they expose themselves. If scammers use that against you, just change your account address on anthropic's product. You must assume everything you give them will be leaked. Probably should even use a separate payment method uniquely for that. The era when you could just read a web page is bygone. Website holsters can't keep keep giving website browsers all the advantageous positions without a cost. Good thing anthropic already made the correct decision here, once again, as always. Amen.
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