Launched this week
Tosly
AI that reads the Terms of Service so you don't have to
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AI that reads the Terms of Service so you don't have to
5 followers
Tosly is a free, open-source Chrome extension that scans Terms of Service pages, flags clauses written against you (data selling, forced arbitration, auto-renewals) in plain English with red/yellow/green severity, and highlights the exact quote on the live page before you click Accept. Only the visible text and URL leave the browser. No account, no login.
Most launch posts hide their weakest spot, so here is Tosly's up front: it trusts an LLM's category rubric. If the rubric is wrong, the flags are wrong, and nothing in the architecture fixes that. Signal for personal decisions, not legal advice.
What I could fix was how much you have to trust the model's prose.
Asking an LLM to "summarize this ToS" gives you a confident paragraph that says nothing. So the prompt is a scaffold instead: a fixed category rubric (data selling, forced arbitration, auto-renewal), severity rules, a JSON schema, and one hard constraint, every flag must carry the verbatim quote that triggered it, copied not paraphrased, max 200 chars. The quote is then highlighted on the live page.
If it cannot cite the clause, it cannot flag it. That bounds the bluffing without pretending to remove it.
Two real questions:
- Where should a tool like this refuse to render a verdict at all?
- Which clause types do you most distrust an LLM to read correctly?
Repo, store listing and demo are below if you want to poke at the rubric.
https://github.com/preston176/to...
https://tosly.online
https://youtu.be/ivAgRwcxAH4