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User criticizes Anthropic's Claude onboarding for "dark patterns"

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A user expressed frustration with Anthropic's Claude account setup process, specifically criticizing the "Code" app and the onboarding experience. The user found the interface to be obnoxious and employed dark patterns, making it difficult to proceed without granting extensive data access. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential user experience issues with AI product onboarding, which could affect adoption.

RANK_REASON User opinion piece about a product's user experience.

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User criticizes Anthropic's Claude onboarding for "dark patterns"

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Set up a Claude account as part of a project I'm working on. I don't have any interest in using Anthropic's vibe-code "Code" app, and will be building any harne

    Set up a Claude account as part of a project I'm working on. I don't have any interest in using Anthropic's vibe-code "Code" app, and will be building any harness I use manually. It's pretty obnoxious on first login trying to connect to all of your data sources. The "skip" option…

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