Effective July 1, 2026 · applies to Thriend or Faux v0.2.x
Thriend or Faux runs entirely in your browser. It has no servers, no accounts, no analytics, and no tracking. The extension's author receives no data whatsoever. The only party that receives any data is Anthropic — when you click "Analyze posts," a profile's public content 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 public profile and replies pages in background tabs to read their public posts — so Meta's logs see ordinary page visits from your browser, the same as if you had clicked through to the profile yourself.
When a profile is analyzed, the extension sends that profile's public information — username, bio, follower/following counts, and the text of recent public posts and replies — 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 the author 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 the author sees nothing at all.
Nothing. No analytics, no telemetry, no error reporting, no ads, no third-party scripts. The author 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 the author 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 only ever reads what is already public on Threads — public bios, public posts, public replies. It cannot see private accounts, DMs, or anything you couldn't see yourself by visiting the profile. Analyses are private decision-support shown only to you: by design, there is no feature for publicly sharing a negative assessment of another person.
The extension's source is public on GitHub so anyone can verify the claims on this page directly. It's shared 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.