Apologies - redesigning LIVE
Oh - and 'Mobile First' - of course 😎
🎵 The ongoing consolidation of the ‘PHI⑊PINverse’ continues.
I just switched on one AlbumWhale RSS music feed for john.philpin.com. All seems to work fine - except - they don’t seem to be actually finding their way to john.philpin.com - if that makes sense?
We’re also going to have to think a bit about delivering richer information and a better presentation.
Any thoughts @bjhess ?
@MitchWagner Does this mean I should follow you there .. or will your there stuff find its way here?
Dictionaries are notoriously accurate - and with ambiguity provide alternatives.
Encyclopedias were once thought of as accurate. Turns out not always. Just like AI❗️
@MitchWagner yeh still not properly working for me
How do get a nice tasteful icon on left - rather than what I get no matter which option I choose?
@manton ?
Any thoughts how to modify the basic three anyway?
@MitchWagner yeah - I know where that is - but never seems to do what would expect - will take another look - thanks
@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.