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Marketing honesty · browser extension

Find the marketing claims regulators actually punish — on your own site.

We scanned 50,000 of the web's most-visited sites and thousands of local businesses — and ~30%, from global brands to the corner shop, carried at least one marketing claim regulators are on record scrutinizing. HonestSiteAudit shows you yours: the patterns the FTC and state AGs really enforce, the real case behind each, and a more honest way to say it. The scan runs right in your browser, and your page never touches our servers — the optional AI features go straight to your own Claude account, not to us.

Download & use for free Free on the Chrome Web Store · Chrome & Edge
The gap

You wrote your 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's no obvious line between the two. HonestSiteAudit draws that line for you, using the record of what's actually been enforced.

How it works

Scan a page, see the receipts, fix the wording.

1

Scan the page you're on

Click the HonestSiteAudit button in your browser toolbar. It reads the current page's own text and markup locally — no account, and the mechanical scan sends nothing anywhere.

2

See each flag with its case

Every finding gets a severity, why it's scrutinized, and the real FTC / state / court action behind it — with a link to the source.

3

Say it more honestly

Each flag comes with a plainer, more defensible way to make the same point — so you keep the pitch and lose the exposure.

The record

These aren't hypotheticals. They're settlements.

A sample of the enforcement HonestSiteAudit maps its findings to — every rule in the tool is anchored to a real action like these.

FTC v. Amazon“cancel anytime” + a cancellation maze$2.5B
Epic / Fortnitecharges for things users didn't choose$245M
Kohl's + Walmart“eco-friendly” bamboo textiles$5.5M
Williams-Sonoma“Made in USA” on imported goods$3.18M
WealthPress“make $24,840 every single week”$1.7M
DoNotPayan AI overclaim (“robot lawyer”)$193K

Sources: ftc.gov / justice.gov press releases. Penalties as reported, as of July 13, 2026 — a point-in-time snapshot of the public figures on that date.

Why you can trust it

An honest tool has to be honest about its own limits — and its own reach.

What it does
  • Flags patterns regulators are on record enforcing
  • Shows the real case and the dollar figure behind each
  • Gives you a more defensible way to say the same thing
  • Checks whatever you point it at — a page, a draft, or your whole site
  • The mechanical scan runs locally — your page never touches our servers
What it never claims
  • That you're “compliant,” “safe,” or “in the clear”
  • That it's legal advice or a substitute for a lawyer
  • That every flag is a violation — some are just worth a look
  • To have read anything it can't actually see on the page
  • To review copy in any language other than English
  • To have seen your back end, your evidence, or a page you never scanned
306
source-verified rules across 37 categories, each tied to a real action
~30%
of real sites — from the world's most-visited down to the corner mom-and-pop shop — carry at least one marketing claim regulators are on record scrutinizing
$50,120
per-violation penalty the FTC can seek for a noticed offense (2023) — source ↗

Both non-cited figures are our own work, not a third-party audit. The 306-rule count is the current ruleset (built from federal & state enforcement sources). The ~30% is measured at both ends of the web with the free mechanical scan: ~50,000 sites drawn at random from the top-1M (29% flagged, ~10% with a HIGH-severity flag — and these are the most-visited, best-resourced sites) plus 8,300 ordinary local businesses sampled from OpenStreetMap (30% flagged). A flag marks a phrase with a real enforcement history — a potential exposure worth a look, not proof of a violation; most sites still scan clean. See how we measured →

What's inside

Free at the core. More the day you need it.

The whole scanner — all 306 rules and every enforcement receipt — is free and runs on your own machine. Add your Claude key and AI writes a custom fix for each flag. Go Pro for the deep whole-page review — it re-reads every flag in context, drops false positives, and grades your real Legal exposure — plus scheduled re-checks and tamper-evident records.

Free $0forever

Instantly scan any page on your site right in your browser. Nothing leaves your computer.

  • Full access to all 306 source-verified rules across 37 categories
  • See the actual FTC, state AG, or court case behind every flag
  • Get plain-English, more defensible alternatives for risky claims
  • Grab labeled screenshots of any finding in one click
+ your Claude key $0still free

Everything in Free, plus AI that writes a ready-to-use fix for every flag.

  • AI writes a custom, more honest version of each flagged claim — tailored to your exact wording
  • Paste-in replacement copy that keeps your voice and the persuasive point
  • Runs on your own Anthropic key — the page is sent to your Claude account for the AI to read (never to us); you control the cost
Pro $29/mo · $3930-day pass

Everything above, plus the deep whole-page AI review, monitoring, and sealed records.

  • AI re-reads your whole page in context — drops false positives, grades your real Legal exposure, and catches issues the keyword rules missed
  • Copy-ready prompts you can hand straight to a writer, developer, or your own AI to do the work for you
  • Scheduled automatic re-checks so pages are monitored continuously
  • Timestamped, hash-sealed records of every scan — independently witnessed by an RFC-3161 trusted timestamp + server signature (verifiable offline, so they can't be backdated); self-attested only when you're offline

Install free and keep it free. Pro is $29/month, or a one-time $39 for a 30-day pass — unlocked right inside the extension, no separate account.

Get the extension

See the marketing claims a regulator might notice on your own site.

Nearly a third of the sites we scanned — from the biggest brands to the corner shop — had at least one flag. Add it to Chrome, open any page on your site, and see if yours does: the flags, the fixes, and the real cases behind them, in seconds, for free.

Download & use for free

Free · runs locally · Chrome & Edge · on the Chrome Web Store