New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings
Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings 8 by zkldi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just hit this today and I'm furious. I installed the Cursor iOS app to see what it had. I've been on `Privacy Mode (Legacy)` for a long time, which is the "Do not store my code" setting. A year or so ago they marked this as "Legacy" and hid it under a "Extra options" menu. They added a new Privacy Mode which is significantly more wishy-washy about what it might store - it includes a clause of "Code may be stored for Background Agents or Other Features", so I've never touched it or wanted to enable it. pic: https://ift.tt/jX82lNf Upon installing and logging in to the iOS app, my account was changed to the softer Privacy Mode and the previous setting I was on has disappeared from all menus. I contacted support and they've said: > Really sorry about this. When you set up the mobile app, the prompt to turn on Clou...