Privacy Policies Are Designed to Be Unread. I Built a Tool to Make Them Honest.

Nobody reads privacy policies. That is the point. The average privacy policy is 4,000 words. It takes 18 minutes to read. Researchers estimate that if Americans actually read every privacy policy for every service they use, it would consume 76 work days per year. Companies know this. The length is not accidental. The legal jargon is not accidental. The buried clauses about selling your data to third parties, about using your content to train AI models, about sharing your location data with "partners" — none of it is accidental. You click "I agree" because you have no real choice. The alternative is not using the service. But what if you could get the plain-English version in ten seconds? I built consentmap to do exactly that. What consentmap does consentmap fetches any website's privacy policy, runs it through a rule-based pattern matcher, and outputs a structured plain-English summary. No LLM required. No data leaves your machine except the HTTP request to fetch the policy. consentmap