January 8, 2026
Pop-up Panic!
Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline
Claude’s nagging pop-up sparks user revolt — hacks, hot takes, and “just switch” energy
TLDR: Claude keeps asking users to “help improve” even after they decline. Commenters are annoyed, sharing hacks to disable the prompts, pointing to a “trivial fix” not implemented, and suggesting alternatives like open-source tools. The fight is about consent that sticks and user trust, not just one pop-up.
The internet is losing patience with Claude’s relentless “Help improve Claude” pop-up. After repeatedly saying no, users are venting: one opens with “Goodness gracious”, another jokes that if Claude wants more training data, offer free membership. The vibe: nag-screen fatigue and privacy anxiety. Enter the DIY crowd—folks are trading secret switches (aka environment variables, little on/off toggles) to disable feedback surveys, cut nonessential traffic, stop auto-updates, and even switch to a demo mode that hides personal info. Others prefer tucking these tweaks into a simple file (settings.json) so the whole computer isn’t cluttered.
Then the drama: a user links a widely backed GitHub issue, calling it a trivial fix and wondering why it isn’t done—fuel for suspicion and smoldering frustration. One commenter shrugs, “Switch to Codex”, while another drops an escape hatch: try open-source opencode.ai that supports Claude and more, no Claude Code needed. There’s humor too—“Great minds think alike… 3 seconds slower”—as people race to post the same workaround. The split is clear: tinkerers hacking the app into silence versus the “I’m out” crowd. The bigger message? Users want consent that sticks, less nudging, and tools that respect their no means no.
Key Points
- •A user reports persistent “Help improve Claude” prompts despite repeatedly declining.
- •The prompts continue to appear across multiple devices used by the poster.
- •The poster believes the prompts are for collecting data to train the model.
- •There is frustration that declines are not respected in a durable way.
- •The poster suggests offering a free membership as an alternative to repeated prompts.