Privacy toggle is missing from settings

Describe the Bug

The new slack feature (which is dope as all hell, I’ve been hacking my way into the same with screenclick macros lol), requires I turn off privacy mode to use, but I can not see the settings toggle.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Already be private before update when there was still a toggle
  2. Want to use slack feature
  3. go to settings
  4. ???
  5. Post bug report -thumbs up emoji-

Expected Behavior

There should be a toggle to return the user to normal privacy mode.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 0.50.5
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 96e5b01ca25f8fbd4c4c10bc69b15f6228c80770
Date: 2025-05-18T04:14:41.252Z (1 mo ago)
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Additional Information

Can we get a CLI maybe? So i can do stuff like this.
mosquitto_sub -h %awsip% -p %awsport% -v -t “madnessinteractive/agents/cursor/#” | xargs -o -r -I {} cursor-cli --agent unhinged --prompt {}

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hi @DanEdens thank you for reporting the issue.

This setting has been moved to the Desktop app.

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Ive also noticed the “contact me” link (again in web settings) to your email address is simply a link to open chrome, and does not draft an email like normal. Thanks!

Thats strange about the Contact Us. I just checked and its a regular mailto: link which should open any mailing tool you have setup.

May have to do with my default browser not being chrome? I get this message every time I try, the next attempt doesn’t save the “always”. It could just be me, I’m a tester I can’t help it :sweat_smile:

I’m also using different browser as default (testing too), however as I dont use browser based email I have not noticed this behavior on regular mailto links :slight_smile:

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I just tried the slack thing again after changing the setting on my desktop, It says Im off privacy in the app, but the website hasn’t syned to it. Maybe I have legacy database value or something that needs clearing?

Could you close and reopen Cursor app and see what setting is preserved there?
Also perhaps refresh the page in browser also to make sure.

I will bump this to Cursor Team @deanrie

Thank you, I gave it a restart and my local setting persisted, but the cloud settings remains beliving im “private”


gave it a couple hours, no dice

Hmm sorry about that, I did pass it to Cursor Team but with many questions and requests it may take a bit time. @danperks

If you could, please try to log out of Cursor app and website, then login again and if the setting doesnt follow, then set it again.
(Sometimes login/logout helps with such inconsistencies)

Okay so now I can at least get through the start link. But it says at the end that im still on legacy privacy mode :\


Will bump it up again.

cc @danperks