| ▲ | pillsburycat 12 hours ago |
| Important disclaimer for anyone using Cursor: make sure to disable "data sharing" in your account settings, as it is enabled by default and old accounts are automatically opted into it. |
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| ▲ | TeMPOraL 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Devil's advocate: why? Why do people need to make sure to disable it? Is this the "but privacy!111" stance, or the Dog in the Manger stance ("I'm not being paid for it, so why should anyone else benefit?"), or...? |
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| ▲ | simjnd an hour ago | parent [-] | | Also from a security perspective. People have been able to extract copyrighted code / API keys some LLMs have been trained on before. If you opt-in to this, your / your company code will be used to train and improve the model. People may then be able to extract that from the model. Another threat vector. |
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| ▲ | natpalmer1776 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Do you have evidence for those claims? I don’t mean to be contrary or subversive, I’d just be interested in seeing how this is actually taking place. |
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| ▲ | pillsburycat 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | To be very precise about session recording: you can inspect the Cursor binary and see that it comes bundled with rrweb and full telemetry infrastructure setup is in place: mouse movements, clicks, scroll positions, etc. on top of the codebase and prompts being sent over the wire. However, I have edited my other claims for now and you can consider them provisionally retracted. My original advice about turning off data sharing stands. You are right to ask for more evidence given the severity of the claims. I think this merits a deeper dive, and a throwaway hacker news comment might not be the best channel for it. Stay tuned ;) | | |
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