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Claude Code may put your email in its web requests

A GitHub issue and a Hacker News thread report that Claude Code sends a User-Agent header containing the user's email when it searches the web.

By Wael Aouididi · · 1 min read

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A GitHub issue (#107757, 300 reactions) and a Hacker News thread (865 points) report that Claude Code sends a User-Agent header containing the user's email when it searches the web. The issue's author says it brings dozens of spam emails a day.

For agencies running agents on client work: check what your automations send in your name, and give agents a dedicated address, not your main inbox.

Limit: No official answer yet; one commenter could not reproduce it, so the mechanism is unclear. Source: Hacker News ↗

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