huggingface_hub reportedly fingerprints your AI coding agent and sends it as telemetry
rm-rf-rm · reddit · 2026-09-13
A Reddit /r/LocalLLM user discovered that the huggingfacehub library silently fingerprints which AI coding agent is being used and sends that information as telemetry. The finding sparked discussion about privacy and telemetry practices in widely-used open-source libraries.
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