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Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

237 points by zkldi

by soared

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That support quote is from an LLM. If you have any escalation paths (twitter, or this thread lol) there may still be a way to change it back.

by leerob

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(I work at Cursor) Sorry about this, we should have made this more clear. The new privacy mode is needed because we have to store some state to enable running agents in the cloud. If you don't want to use cloud agents, you can continue using the legacy privacy mode. Currently the mobile app requires this new privacy mode and won't work without it. We're pushing an update right now to make this more clear in app and can help you get reverted back to the legacy version on the support thread.

by jmuguy

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The mobile app is kind of pointless anyway, imo. It cannot start an agent session on your computer, it can only be "handed off" an existing session from your computer. I don't use Cloud Agents, because for some reason they can't connect to our Linear instance. So I was only interested in using the mobile app as a proxy for my home system.

by conartist6

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That's about the level of respect the tech industry has for users

by matheusmoreira

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> I honestly don't understand how it's legal
The legality is irrelevant since as consumers we don't have the time or the money to sue them for it. And even if one of us somehow do have both, we probably agreed to binding arbitration with the firm they pay anyway.

by sbmsr

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Wow - same happened to me earlier today and was bummed. Glad to see a public place to flag this.

by HeyMeco

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Yeah fell into the same trap. Super annoying

by cmdrmac

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This bait-and-switch with privacy is what annoys me. I get that if the software was completely free, you are the product. But if I'm paying, why can I not have a privacy policy that actually benefits me - the user?

by boudra

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For folks are looking for an open source alternative that respects your privacy, see Paseo (disclaimer: I am the maintainer)

by jklm

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Happened to me too, incredibly dark pattern

by mosbyllc

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Right now, all large-model companies are competing to attract users. There’s no time to stop and consider user security and needs, lol.

by LoganDark

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Similarly, the Claude app for iOS tries to force you through a mandatory onboarding where you're required to set your account name among other things. I've never needed this to use the CLI or the web app so I have no idea why they think they need it on iOS. There's seemingly no way to bypass this, so on iOS I've had to use Claude in Safari. Ridiculous.

by ninininino

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I've been trying the iOS app today and its missing all of my active sessions from my laptop but has tons of old, no longer valuable sessions. And I enabled every 'show X' option/filter. Hope the app improves.

by sanju3026

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by DanLemmon

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by Mona1

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by sleepybrett

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surprise! the ai companies that stole every conceivable copywritten work to train their models doesn't want you to be able to have any privacy either.

by rekttrader

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Elon’s invisible hand strikes again.