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   DCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦 (dcoderlt@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 16:49:51 JST DCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦

   > Anthropic silently installed a spyware bridge [browser extension native messaging permission] on my machine

   > The bridge runs outside the browser's sandbox at user privilege level [1], and Native Messaging hosts do not surface in any standard macOS process or permission UI […]

   > This is the capability that Anthropic pre-stages on my laptop the moment I install their desktop application. Without telling me. Without asking me. Without offering me the chance to say no.

   https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 20:31:18 JST Rich Felker

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     • Exa :calim:

     @Exagone313 @dcoderlt I would expect for someone who would install that shit in the first place, it's not.

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     Exa :calim: (exagone313@share.elouworld.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 20:31:20 JST Exa :calim:

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     @dcoderlt I'm wondering if the article is fully written by a human, the numbered sections seem odd to me.