This is free — for your kids and your parents. That’s certainly how it began.
And as far as i can tell, it’s the first of its kind — for the nerds, the journalists, and the ever-present what-have-yous.
Show what is controlling the page right now — without interpretation, scoring, or identity.
Buyer, be aware.
The oldest warning in commerce, turned over: what you buy here is your own awareness — you see what you’ve been selling.
Free, local, private — live in the Chrome Web Store. Nothing leaves your browser.
Or try the glass right here, no install →
The fastest way to know what a thing is, is to watch what it refuses to do. So, plainly — what AURiX will never do to you:
And if your data ever gets out — it wasn’t from us. we never had it. but point our instruments at it, and we’ll help you find who did.
Each one reads structure and register — not truth. Every page states plainly what the tool does and does not do. SWEET stays free.
Measured, not promised. Each line below is checkable.
AURiX is observation of structural mechanism. When you opened this page, the protocol ran on the page itself. Below is the self-attestation — a receipt of what this page is doing, in the same format AURiX emits for any page.
Running…
Same receipt format emitted by the Receipt browser instrument and AUDiT desktop app. Reproducible: reload this page with the same inputs, same output under the 8 invariants.
The full browser suite lives in a single right-click gesture. Right-click the box below and AURiX reports the mechanism facts about it. Same posture, smaller surface — this is a demo, not the full extension.
By the fifth right-click you have learned what a redirect chain is, what tracking params look like, and what structural transparency reads as — without a tutorial, without an onboarding, without being lectured. Sleeper teach.
Eight letters, one law each. Every signal AURiX surfaces satisfies all eight — if it fails any, it is not AURiX. AURiX keeps NO SECRET.
If a signal requires judgment, it is not an AURiX signal.
"i" set off creating AURiX: SWEET in order to make money — thought there was some genius in it and perhaps a market for it. As i was learning to build, i stumbled onto much bigger and, in my mind, more important things — and they already exist across the suite of products i've built. i benefit twice over: from knowing it helps people, and from what that shows — that my work is functional, serious, and strictly cohesive with my ethos. It is free so that everyone, myself included, profits. If it weren't, i wouldn't be me; it wouldn't be AURiX.
— AURiX Founder
Curious what else i'm building from this posture? i've written about the rest of the work — where it is, what it means to me, where it's going. Read the white papers →
The same mechanisms that expose dark patterns could be used to shame, score, or punish. The property that prevents that is the compassion constraint: AURiX surfaces without shaming; the affordance is return, not punishment. Every feature is tested against it.
Silence as design. Shape, not score. The artifact is the mechanism, not the verdict. The invariants protect honesty. The compassion constraint protects agency. Both must hold.
Every observation composes to one of three states. The rule is mechanical, not editorial: worst state wins.
Filled circle. Hollow circle. Upward triangle. Shape plus color for accessibility. Static. No animation.
Kindness is a structural property, not a sentiment. When distortion is visible, it becomes reducible.
FWF. Pronounced fwhooof — the sound of a soft release.
Every observation is ephemeral by default. Export is a conscious act. Nothing phones home.