Effective July 1, 2026 · applies to Thriend or Faux v0.9.x
Thriend or Faux runs entirely in your browser. It has no servers, no accounts, no analytics, and no tracking. I receive no data whatsoever. The only party that receives any data is Anthropic — when you click "Analyze posts," a profile's content (the same content visible in your own logged-in view of Threads) is sent to the Claude API using your own API key.
api.anthropic.com) to authenticate your requests, and nowhere else.Uninstalling the extension deletes all of this. Nothing is synced to any cloud.
The extension sends nothing of its own to Meta. When you hover a username, it quietly opens that person's profile and replies pages in background tabs, using your own logged-in Threads session — so Meta's logs see ordinary page visits from your browser, the same as if you had clicked through to the profile yourself. That also means the extension sees exactly what you can see: for most accounts that's public content, but if you follow someone whose account is private, the extension sees that account the same way you already do as an approved follower — nothing beyond your own access.
When a profile is analyzed, the extension sends that profile's information — username, bio, follower/following counts, and the text of recent posts and replies, limited to whatever your own logged-in view of Threads can see — to Anthropic's Claude API, authenticated with your API key. This happens only for profiles you look up, and results are cached locally so the same profile isn't re-sent within 12 hours.
Your API usage is governed by Anthropic's own privacy policy and commercial terms. Anthropic states that API inputs and outputs are not used to train its models by default.
A few times a day, the extension fetches a small status file from this website so I can announce updates or remotely disable the extension in an emergency. The request carries no personal data and nothing about your activity — the site's host (GitHub) sees only the standard connection logs any web request produces, and I see nothing at all.
Nothing. No analytics, no telemetry, no error reporting, no ads, no third-party scripts. I cannot see who you look up, what verdicts you get, or that you use the extension at all.
In a future version, the extension may report very high-level, aggregated, fully anonymized usage numbers (for example, a total count of lookups) to help me understand adoption. If that happens, this policy will be updated first, and it will never include anything identifying you or the people you look up.
The extension reads a profile exactly the way you already can — nothing more. For public accounts, that's public bios, posts, and replies. If you follow someone whose account is private and they've approved you, the extension can see their profile the same way you already do as a follower, and that content is handled the same as any other profile you analyze. It cannot see DMs, or anything outside your own account's access — visiting the profile yourself would show you the same thing. Analyses are shown only to you — the extension has no built-in way to publish one, and nothing is posted anywhere on your behalf.
I've made the extension's source public on GitHub so anyone can verify the claims on this page directly. I share it for transparency, not as an open-source license — see the license for details.
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with an updated effective date before the change takes effect.
Questions? Email adam@thriendorfaux.com or contact @ThatAdamGuy on Threads.