Users leak secrets to desktop agents, but Claude Desktop + Ollama local models fix it
Technovangelist · x · 2026-09-11
Technovangelist calls out the irony of people who claim to care about privacy yet quickly hand their most sensitive info to big tech via desktop agent apps. The fix, he notes, is easy: switch Claude Desktop to local models served by Ollama, solving the privacy problem outright.
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