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CLAUDE CODE IS QUIETLY FINGERPRINTING CHINA-LINKED API ROUTERS

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Claude Code fingerprints custom API routing inside model context. While Anthropic has real reasons to care about unofficial Claude routers, the implementation is not transparent. Its technique makes a line of model context look semantically neutral while using punctuation to carry routing metadata. It almost crosses the line into becoming spyware.