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Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address

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85 points behnamoh | 1 comments | 20 Dec 25 21:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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HPMOR ◴[20 Dec 25 22:22 UTC] No.46340199[source]▶
Why is this the case? I don't understand, can somebody explain the logic to me here?
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ares623 ◴[20 Dec 25 22:27 UTC] No.46340237[source]▶
Maybe used the email address as a primary key. Ask me how I know.
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blitzegg ◴[20 Dec 25 22:37 UTC] No.46340307[source]▶
Well it does eliminate a whole list of problems related to account takeover, account recovery workflows, legal questions regarding which email owns the data, etc. Sometimes less is more. Secure, reliable, simple.
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1. darth_avocado ◴[20 Dec 25 23:10 UTC] No.46340567[source]▶
If anything, this makes account takeover and account recovery way more difficult. It probably makes a bunch of legal stuff easier for them, but that’s about it.