Nobody reads
the terms.
Somebody should.

You are three clicks from agreeing to a perpetual licence over everything you post. This reads the whole agreement before you sign up, and tells you plainly what you'd be handing over.

Chrome · three reads free, no account · your pages are never stored

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Pick a site. These are real verdicts, from the real agreements, read in full.

    The scale

    Four bands. One question.

    Would you be a fool to sign up? The score answers it, and every point of it is traceable to a clause someone wrote hoping you wouldn't read it. See every site scored so far →

    0–24
    Safe

    Standard, fair terms. Sign up.

    25–49
    Caution

    Some overreach worth knowing about, nothing unusual for the industry.

    50–74
    Risky

    Real harms: data sharing, forced arbitration, wide content licences.

    75–100
    Fool

    Predatory. Perpetual rights over your content, no deletion path, data sold on.

    How it works

    It reads what you skip.

    The order matters — each step only happens because the one before it found something.

    01

    Spots the form

    Password and confirm fields, signup URLs, a "Create account" button. That's a signup page.

    02

    Follows the links

    The terms and privacy policy printed in grey under the button — the ones nobody clicks.

    03

    Reads every clause

    Fetches them whole. Bot-walled or JavaScript-rendered? It opens them in a background tab and reads what the browser rendered.

    04

    Shows the damage

    A score, a verdict, and each risk quoted from the clause it came from. No invented outrage.

    Watch it read

    Ten seconds of work you'd never do.

    Roughly 25,000 tokens of legal text, every clause weighed against what it actually does to you. This is the shape of one check.

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    When it earns its keep

    The moments worth ten seconds.

    Every one of these is a signup where the interesting clause is the one nobody reads.

    // the free trial

    Card up front

    Free for 30 days, then billed annually, cancellable only by email. All three facts live in different paragraphs.

    // the AI tool

    Whatever you upload

    Check whether the licence over what you feed it is perpetual, sublicensable, and survives you deleting the account.

    // the social app

    Arbitration clause

    Signing away a jury trial and the right to join a class action takes one sentence, usually near the end.

    // the shopping site

    Partner networks

    "Trusted partners" is doing heavy lifting when the linked list runs to several hundred named companies.

    // the kids' game

    Who it collects on

    Worth knowing what's gathered on a child's account, and whether a parent can get it deleted at all.

    // anything free

    The actual price

    If there's no subscription, the payment is somewhere else in the document. It usually has a name.

    https://example.com/signup

    Create an account

    It's quick and easy.
    Sign Up
    Don't be a fool
    85/100
    FOOL
    Every detail of your digital and physical life, harvested for an opaque advertising machine.
    • Pervasive cross-site tracking
    • Data collected on non-users
    • Your messages train their AI
    On the page

    No hunting for it.

    The verdict arrives on the signup page itself, next to the button you were about to click. One click to read, or dismiss it and it stays gone for the rest of the session. Open the toolbar icon when you want the full report with the exact clauses.

    Privacy

    A privacy tool that takes nothing.

    It would be a poor joke to harvest you while warning you about harvesting.

    Pricing

    Three free reads. Then $29, once, forever.

    The first three agreements are on the house. After that, pay monthly like everything else — or pay once and never think about it again.

    Free
    $0three reads

    Try it on the next three things you were about to sign.

    • Three full agreements, read and scored
    • Score, verdict and quoted clauses
    • No account, no card
    Start free
    Monthly
    $2.99/ month

    Read every set of terms you meet, as many as you like.

    • Unlimited reads on every site
    • Every model, including the thorough one
    • Cancel any time, one click
    Install, then upgrade

    No account to create, no card for the free reads. Plans are bought from inside the extension — payment has to be tied to a specific install to unlock it, and this page has no way of knowing which one you are. Install it, use the three free reads, then upgrade from the popup when the paywall appears.

    Questions

    Straight answers.

    What does Don't Be A Fool actually do?
    It finds the terms of service and privacy policy linked from the page you're on, reads them with a language model, and gives you a 0–100 risk score with the specific clauses that earned it — before you create the account.
    What do the scores mean?
    Four bands. 0–24 is SAFE, 25–49 CAUTION, 50–74 RISKY, and 75–100 FOOL. The score reflects how much the agreement takes from you compared with what it gives back.
    What does it cost?
    Three full reads are free. After that it's $2.99 a month, or $29 once for lifetime access. Paid plans carry a fair-use ceiling of 100 checks a month, which no human reading terms by hand will reach.
    Do I need an account?
    No. There is no name, email or password. Your install gets a random ID generated on your own device, and that is the only thing tying a purchase to a browser. Payment is handled by Stripe.
    Does it store the agreements it reads?
    No. The document text is held only for the length of the request, passed to Google's Gemini API, and discarded when the verdict comes back. The verdict itself is cached in your browser for seven days and never leaves it.
    What permissions does it need?
    Site access is optional and requested the first time you run a check, not at install. Nothing is read or sent until you press Check — automatic checking exists and ships switched off.
    Which browsers does it work in?
    Google Chrome, installed from the Chrome Web Store.
    Is this legal advice?
    No. It's a fast reading of legal text by a language model, and it can be wrong or miss a clause. Every risk it reports comes with the quote it came from, so you can check it yourself.