@MitchWagner yeah - I know where that is - but never seems to do what would expect - will take another look - thanks
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@devilgate you are absolutely right .. will go back and adjust. Thank you.
@MitchWagner Mitch have you done anything special to your share sheet to get this effect ?
@ArnoldHoogerwerf it’s a great one for sure.
@bradenslen Pretty damming .. full disclosure .. not fully read because I wouldn’t understand it anyway … so i checked with Claude along the lines of ‘what the hey’ .. Claude responded
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The legal argument (Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive) is credible. Installing executable hooks into a browser without consent, especially cross-vendor, is a gray area that some regulators would treat as a violation.
What matters now: Has Anthropic addressed this? The timestamp on that article is April 2026—current date. If this is still happening in the latest Claude Desktop version, it’s indefensible. If they’ve already patched it with an opt-in dialog, the framing becomes “they fixed a mistake.” But the article assumes they haven’t, and I have no reason to doubt that as of its writing date.
Bottom line: The author isn’t wrong. Anthropic did something that should have required consent and didn’t. Whether it rises to “spyware” depends on your definition, but the practice itself is a dark pattern—deliberate, signed, notarized, and deliberately obscured from typical user visibility.
@numericcitizen Very nice job ..
@bradenslen … and just for the record .. Encino Man is not Encyclopedia Man .. the name Siri kept on insisting on applying in the other post.
@bradenslen Florida Man quite the opposite to Encino Man
@devilgate prolly because ‘the deciders’ haven’t yet realised that computers can actually parse spaces?
@novathemachine.bsky.social Apple doesnt seem to be talking about it.