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.

    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
    Go monthly

    No account to create, no key to configure, no card for the free reads. Install it and the first three agreements are read for you.

    Install

    Two minutes, no key.

    Nothing to configure. No account, no API key, no card — the first three reads are free the moment it's loaded.

    1 — Load it

    1. Open chrome://extensions
    2. Turn on Developer mode
    3. Click Load unpacked
    4. Select the project folder

    Chrome Web Store listing is in review. Until it lands, this is the way in.

    2 — Open a signup page

    1. The icon badges blue when it finds legal documents
    2. Click it, then Check this site
    3. Five to twenty seconds, mostly fetching
    4. The verdict lands on the page, next to the button

    Verdicts cache for 7 days, so a site costs one read no matter how often you visit it.