SlopSleuth
SlopSleuth is a browser extension that analyses web articles for trust signals. When you visit a web page, the extension may send the page text to our servers for analysis. The analysis checks whether quoted experts exist, whether cited studies are real, and whether claims match their supposed sources.
Page content: When SlopSleuth scans a page, the text content of that page is sent to our analysis servers. This is necessary to perform the trust analysis. We do not store the full text of pages you visit. The text is processed and discarded after analysis.
Page URL and domain: The URL and domain of scanned pages are recorded to build domain-level trust profiles. This helps SlopSleuth provide faster, more accurate results over time.
Scan results: The analysis results (trust score, detected signals, evidence findings) are stored to improve domain-level accuracy and to train our detection models. Scan results do not contain personally identifiable information.
Usage data: We track aggregate usage metrics such as the number of scans performed. We do not track which specific pages you visit beyond the scanning functionality.
Scan rate limiting: SlopSleuth limits free users to 50 scans per day. This limit is enforced locally by the extension and stored only on your device. No account creation or user identification is required. We do not transmit identifying information to our servers for rate limiting purposes.
When you install SlopSleuth, you are shown an onboarding screen that explains how page text is transmitted for analysis. Scanning only begins after you acknowledge this during setup. You can uninstall the extension at any time to immediately stop all data collection.
Page text is sent to the Anthropic API (Claude) for analysis. Anthropic's API processes the text and returns trust signals. Anthropic's API usage is subject to Anthropic's privacy policy.
Analysis results are stored on Cloudflare infrastructure (Workers, D1 database, KV store). Cloudflare's data processing is subject to Cloudflare's privacy policy.
You can uninstall the SlopSleuth extension at any time, which will immediately stop all data collection. If you wish to request deletion of any data associated with your usage, contact us at privacy@slopsleuth.com.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated date. Continued use of the extension after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
For privacy-related questions, contact: privacy@slopsleuth.com