A Pet That Reads The Website You Are Standing On.
Put it in your browser. Go anywhere. It tells you what that business has actually published about your data — and it refuses to read 559 kinds of site at all.
Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc. About 41 KB. No account needed, no card, no email.
Here It Is, Arriving On A Website.
The shop is invented and the answer is staged, so nothing here is a claim about a real business. The pet is not: the frame runs the same two files the download installs, so what you are watching is the thing itself.
The pet folds itself back to the small badge a few seconds after it answers, which is what it does on a real page — it is not trying to hold your attention. Drag it anywhere in the frame and it stays where you put it.
What Sits There
The corner when you are not asking it anything. One word for the answer, one dial for the colour, and the pet wearing the face that goes with it. Click it and it opens.
Said In One Line
What this business publishes, in a sentence, with how many of the seven documents came back with something. This is the size the pet opens to by itself when a read finishes, and the one it folds away from.
Every Document It Found
All seven, named, each one either a link to that company’s own page or the words Not Published. Under every link is how it was found. Opening this stops the fold-back clock, because somebody reading is not somebody in the way.
Why how-it-was-found is printed: a document that exists only at a guessed address is published and unreachable at the same time. A person following links never arrives at it, and neither does a machine. That is a different finding from “they have one”, so the panel says which.
The seven links in the frame above go to the invented shop, so they open nothing — press one and it tells you so. On a real site each is that company’s own page, untouched. A real panel also carries what the read found line by line; this demonstration stops at the documents.
You Land On A Site. It Goes And Reads.
Every company writes down how it handles your data. Almost nobody reads it, because it is long and it is boring and it is somewhere else. The pet reads it for you while you are standing there.
A Small Pet, Bottom Corner
It sits on top of the page and stays out of the way. It does not read the page you are on, does not watch what you type, and does not touch anything on the site.
One Question About The Company
It sends us the site's name — "stripe.com" — and nothing else. That is the same question anyone can type into our free checker by hand.
Seven Documents, Named
Privacy Notice · Data Processing Terms · Sub-Processor List · Security Page · Cookie Notice · Terms Of Service · AI Disclosure. It tells you which ones exist, which ones say something, and which ones do not.
Then it gives you one of five answers. Never more than one.
Each answer carries its own shape as well as its own colour, so it still reads on a black-and-white screen, on paper, and to someone who is colourblind.
559 Kinds Of Site It Refuses To Read.
Not "reads them and keeps quiet". Does not run. On these sites the pet never appears, nothing is asked about the site, and nothing is written down — not on our side, and not in your own browser. There is no way to switch any of them back on. One address is quiet for a different reason and can be switched on — ours, at the foot of this section.
Two locks, not one.
The first is Chrome's. The list is written into the extension in a form the browser reads itself, and for those addresses Chrome will not start the pet at all — that refusal is the browser's, and nothing we could change by accident. The second is our own code, which checks the list again before it does anything, and covers the cases the first lock cannot describe: a betting brand that has forty different country addresses is one entry here and forty in a list somebody would have had to guess at.
And it fails shut. If the list cannot be loaded, the pet treats that as a refusal and does nothing. The cost of being wrong that way is one site with no pet on it. The cost of the other way is a site that should never have been read.
Except us. You can point it at us.
BlackSnow is not on that list. The pet is quiet on blacksnowintel.com by default for one reason only: a badge grading us, sitting on top of the free check you are using to grade somebody else, is two answers about two companies on one screen. That is about a screen being crowded. It was never meant to mean the one company the pet cannot be pointed at is the company that made it.
So both doors are open, and neither needs an account.
- Run the free check on us. Type
blacksnowintel.cominto the free check and press the button. It is the same read, the same rules and the same five answers everybody else gets, pointed at us. - Then wake your pet on that page. Under the result there is a control that asks your pet to read this page. Press it and the badge appears in the corner with our answer in it, exactly as it would on anybody's site.
It lasts one visit. Nothing is stored, no setting is changed, and reloading the page leaves BlackSnow quiet again — so the next time you come here to check somebody else, the screen is yours. The refusals above do not work like this and cannot be asked: no button anywhere turns on a read of an adult, gambling, weapons, defence, sanctioned or blocked address, and none of them is a default.
One Thing Leaves. The Name Of The Site.
Chrome will warn you that this extension can "read your data on all websites". That warning is true of every extension that can put something in the corner of any page. Here is what it is actually used for.
Goes To Us
- The site's name — for example stripe.com.
- That is the whole list.
It is a question about a company, not about you. Anyone can ask it by typing the name into our free checker.
Never Leaves Your Browser
- The page you are on, or the rest of the address.
- Anything you type, including passwords and card numbers.
- Your cookies, your logins, your name, your email.
- The list of sites you have visited.
The pet keeps its own history of what it has looked at, so it does not ask us the same question twice in a day. That history is written in your browser and read from your browser. There is no code in it that sends that list anywhere, and you can wipe it from the pet's own settings.
You Pressed Reject. Did Anything Change?
Everything above answers "what does this business publish". This answers a different question about the same site: after you made a real choice on a real cookie banner, did what left your browser match what you picked?
It Starts When You Do
Nothing happens until you click a choice on a cookie banner yourself. There is no background traffic log, and nothing is watching before that press.
It Watches, Briefly
For ten seconds it notes where your browser sends things next. Then it stops. It is a record of what one click set off, not a log of your session.
Nothing Is Blocked
It never blocks a request and never changes one. The site sees exactly the traffic it would have seen from anyone else. This is a witness, not a blocker.
Which means it can show you the gap between what a banner promised and what the page then did.
Five Steps. About Two Minutes.
It is not in the Chrome Web Store yet, so you add it by hand. That is three clicks more than a store install, and it is the same file either way.
- Download the file and open it. You will get one folder called
zero-trust-security-pet. Leave it somewhere you will not delete — your Documents folder is fine. Chrome reads it from where you put it. - Open your extensions page. Type
chrome://extensionsin the address bar and press Enter. On Edge it isedge://extensions, on Bravebrave://extensions. - Turn on Developer mode using the switch in the top-right corner. This is what lets you add an extension from a folder instead of from the store.
- Press "Load unpacked" and choose the
zero-trust-security-petfolder you unzipped. - Go to any website. The pet appears in the corner and starts reading. Try one of the sites on the list above and watch nothing happen.
Turning Developer mode on does not change how Chrome protects you anywhere else, and you can switch it back off after the extension is added.
Everything Works Without An Account.
The pet needs nothing from you. A dashboard is for people who want to look back at what they have seen on more than one machine, or change how it behaves.
The Sites You Have Looked At
Every read the pet did, newest first, with the answer it gave and the date.
How It Looks
Pick its look and whether it draws light or dark. The pet picks that up the next time your browser starts.
Which Rules To Hold Sites To
Set where you live and the cookie-banner check is read against that country's privacy rules rather than a guess made from your connection.
To link a browser: open the pet's settings, copy the connect code from your dashboard, and paste it in. A connect code is not a password, and you can replace it at any time — the browser it was in simply stops being yours.
Questions, Answered.
It is free and there is no account. We sell deeper work to businesses — reading a whole supply chain, and explaining what a finding means. The pet reads one company at a time, which is the part we give away.
Because putting something in the corner of any website needs permission for every website — Chrome has one warning for that and it is worded for the worst case. What the code does with it is the section above: it sends the site's name and nothing else. The part of the extension that sits inside the page only draws; it has no way to read the page, because there is no page-reading code in it.
No. It draws in its own little box on top of the page and never touches the site's own code. On the 559 kinds of site it refuses, it does not even start.
On purpose, no. Google Docs, Microsoft 365, Notion, Slack, Dropbox and Figma are on the refusal list. Your files are not a company to look up, and a pet appearing over a document you are writing is the wrong place for it to be.
It is not there yet. Until it is, this page is the only place to get it — so if you find it somewhere else, it did not come from us. Installing by hand is the five steps above.
Open chrome://extensions and press Remove. That deletes the extension and everything it kept in your browser. If you had linked a dashboard, sign in and press Forget there too — that removes the copy we hold.