Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

You can opt out, but the fact that it's opt-in by default and made to look like a simple T/C update prompt leaves a sour taste in my mouth. The five year retention period seems... excessive. I wonder if they've buried anything else objectionable in the new terms.

It was the kick in the pants I needed to cancel my subscription.

Everywhere else in Anthropic's interface, yes/no switches show blue when enabled and black when disabled. In the box they're showing about this change the slider shows grey in both states: visit it in preferences to see the difference! It's not just disappointing but also kind of sad that someone went to the effort to do this.

Just did and it behaves as expected for me in the Android app (ie. not the dark pattern you described)

I can confirm it's grey on both sides on the website.

I get blue (on) / black (off) on the website. Or blue / white in light mode.

https://claude.ai/settings/data-privacy-controls

It was easy to not opt-in, I got prompted before I saw any of this.

I think they should keep the opt-in behavior past Sept 28 personally.