Browser extension
On a news website, click the Recto icon in your toolbar: the site’s card opens, with what the registers say.
On the Chrome Web Store. Coming soon to Firefox and Edge.
Free, no account needed.
Its icon already shows the status of the open site; a click opens its card.
On the site you are reading, a click on the Recto icon in the toolbar opens a small window.
The extension takes only the domain name from the tab’s address, for example “exemple.fr”, and sends it to Recto.
Recto returns the site’s card, with its lines and their sources, or says that it does not have one yet.
For its icon, the extension downloads the list of sites that have a card (at installation, when the browser starts, then every six hours) and compares it with the open tab, within your browser. On Chrome, Edge and Brave, the browser itself does the comparison; on Firefox, the extension reads the tab’s address to compare it, without sending it.
Only the domain name is sent, and only when you click. Neither the rest of the address, nor your history, nor page content, forms or cookies are sent. As with any connection, your IP address appears in the server’s technical logs, kept for twelve months at most.
No sign-up, no usage statistics, no advertising. Two things stay in your browser and never leave it: the list of sites that have a card, and whether the welcome screen of the first click has been seen.
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