HonestSiteAudit — Marketing Claims & Dark Pattern Checker

Marketing claims & dark pattern checker: flags wording regulators commonly scrutinize, with the real enforcement case behind it.

You wrote your marketing copy to sell. Regulators read it for something else. "Guaranteed results," "cancel anytime," "#1," a countdown timer, a pre-checked box — most of it is written in good faith. But some of those exact phrases have cost real companies real money, and there is no obvious line between the wording that's fine and the wording that isn't. HonestSiteAudit maps your wording to the record of what regulators have actually enforced. Open the extension on any page of your site and, in seconds, you get: • Every flagged claim, highlighted right on the page • The source cited for each flag — for most, a real FTC action, state attorney-general case, or court settlement; for some, a statute or an NAD decision, or a plain note that no penalty case exists yet • A plain-English, more defensible way to say the same thing FREE — the whole scanner, forever • All 306 rules across 37 marketing categories (earnings and income claims, health and supplement claims, "free" and auto-renew traps, fake urgency and scarcity, review and endorsement issues, dark patterns, privacy and disclosure gaps, and more) • The cited source behind each flag • Plain-English, lower-risk alternatives for risky claims • One-click labeled screenshots of any finding • The scan runs locally in your browser and sends no page content anywhere (opening the panel checks our server for product messages — see Privacy) ADD YOUR OWN CLAUDE (ANTHROPIC) KEY — still free • AI writes a more accurate, ready-to-use rewrite for each flagged claim, tailored to your page — so you can fix the wording, not just find it • The request goes from your browser straight to your own Anthropic account — the page is never sent to us, and you control the cost PRO — $5/month, billed monthly, cancel anytime • The deep whole-page review: AI re-reads your entire page in context, like a human reviewer — it can find issues the plain scan missed, drops false positives, and grades your Legal exposure • Copy-ready fix-it prompts you can hand to a writer, a developer, or your own AI • Scheduled automatic re-checks (hourly, daily or weekly, while Chrome is running), with a notification when a re-check finds something new or the page's grade changes • Tamper-evident sealed records for any scan you choose to seal: the record is hashed and, when you're online, independently timestamped (RFC-3161) with a server signature, which makes backdating an anchored record detectable. Records sealed while offline are self-attested only. PRIVACY A plain scan is fully local — the page's content never leaves your device. Data leaves your device only in these cases: (a) if you turn on AI, the page's marketing text is sent to Anthropic on your own key to analyze (never to us); (b) when you activate a paid plan, your license key and a random device ID are sent to validate your seat; (c) when you seal a record, its hash, the page URL, the capture time and your license key are sent to obtain the independent timestamp — the page's content itself never leaves your device, only its hash; (d) on every plan, opening the panel asks our server for product messages, sending a random device ID and the extension version (plus your license key if you've activated one). See our privacy policy for specifics. HonestSiteAudit is a software tool, not a law firm. It flags marketing patterns regulators commonly scrutinize and shows the public cases behind them; it does not tell you a site is "compliant" or "safe," and it is not legal advice.