[HN Gopher] Claude in Chrome
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       Claude in Chrome
        
       Author : ianrahman
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2025-12-20 21:26 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (claude.com)
        
       | willio58 wrote:
       | Claude needs to drop the required login to use their platform. I
       | get it if you want to use their premium models, but just
       | yesterday I tried to use their LLM. It prompted me a couple of
       | times to log in and I dropped off immediately and went back to
       | ChatGPT. Just a dumb decision in my eyes
        
         | baal80spam wrote:
         | Well, Gemini is the same.
        
         | sothatsit wrote:
         | Seems like a good decision if they are trying to avoid
         | consumers and focus on professional users who are more likely
         | to create an account and pay. Especially if they are
         | constrained on compute.
        
         | tehlike wrote:
         | You are using a free service, and think the provider cannot ask
         | for a simple login.
         | 
         | Anonymity is fine to ask for, but you are not paying for
         | something and you are getting value...
        
         | charcircuit wrote:
         | I was curious and using a watch I found it took me 25 seconds
         | to sign up and setup an account. You probably spent more time
         | trying to work around this and typing this comment than it
         | would have taken to setup your account.
        
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