Sus or Bus — website safety check

SUS OR BUS — KNOW BEFORE YOU CLICK Every day you open dozens of websites: from search results, from links in emails and chat messages, from bookmarks, from pinned tabs. Most of them are fine. Some of them are traps — fake shops, phishing pages, scam downloads, sites that quietly hoover up your data. Sus or Bus is a browser extension that tells you which is which BEFORE the page loads, before you click anything, and before a scammer gets a single byte of your information. The idea is simple. Every website gets one of two verdicts: • BUS — the site looks safe and legitimate. Browse away. • SUS — the site shows warning signs. Think twice. No vague risk percentages. No impenetrable security jargon. Just the answer you actually came for: is this website sus, or is it bus? WHAT IS SUS OR BUS? Sus or Bus is a web safety checker that comes in two parts: this browser extension and the Sus or Bus website (susbus.base44.app), where you can analyze links, email text, HTML, code snippets, and uploaded documents in depth. The extension brings the same safety engine directly into your browsing. When you are about to open a website, it checks the site, shows you the verdict, the safety score, and the key findings in plain language — and then lets YOU decide whether to continue. • Click a link to another site on any webpage: the extension pauses for a moment and shows a compact rating card in the corner of your screen with Continue / Cancel. Same-site links and Ctrl/Cmd-clicks pass straight through, so normal browsing is never slowed down. • Open a site directly — from a pinned tab, a bookmark, your browser history, or by typing the address: the extension shows the full safety report full-screen before letting you browse it. Safe sites get one big green Proceed button. Suspicious sites get a deliberately smaller proceed button and an option to find safer alternatives instead. • Every rating is a link away from the full detailed report on the Sus or Bus website, with a technical breakdown for those who want to go deeper. THE VERDICT SYSTEM Sus or Bus deliberately avoids wishy-washy output. Instead of a color-coded "maybe," you get a binary answer: • BUS (safe): the site checks out. The verdict line reads "Valid." • SUS (suspicious): the site shows red flags. The verdict line reads "Not Valid." Alongside the verdict you get a 0–100 safety score, a plain-language summary of WHY the site got its rating, and up to four of the most important findings — good, warning, or bad — so you can see at a glance what is going on behind the scenes. The binary verdict is intentional: research on risk communication shows that people act on clear answers, not on "this site is 34% likely to be risky." A score of 0–100 is there for context, but the verdict is the headline — and it always matches: a BUS site reads Valid, a SUS site reads Not Valid. HOW IT WORKS: CHECKS BEFORE YOU CLICK 1. Click interception. When you click a link that leads to a different site, the extension intercepts the click before navigation happens. It looks up the destination, fetches its safety rating, and shows it to you in a small corner card. You can continue to the site, cancel, or open the full report. This works on links in emails you read in your browser, in forums, in social media, on news sites — anywhere a link to another website appears. 2. Full-screen takeover for direct visits. Many dangerous visits do not start with a link click. They start with a pinned tab you open every morning, a bookmark you saved long ago, or an address you typed after hearing about a "great deal." That is why Sus or Bus also covers direct navigation: when you open a site straight from a bookmark, pinned tab, history, or the address bar, the extension displays the site's full safety report full-screen before you browse it. You see the verdict, the score, and the findings — and you choose to proceed only when you are satisfied. Reloads and back/forward navigation are never interrupted, so once you have decided, browsing is completely smooth. 3. Cache plus auto-scan. Sites you have checked before show their rating instantly, because ratings are cached on your device for 7 days. New sites are scanned automatically in the background the moment you need a rating, which takes a few seconds the first time. Scanning happens on the Sus or Bus servers — your browsing is not slowed down while it runs, and nothing about you is attached to the result. FIND SAFER ALTERNATIVES When a site is rated SUS, the proceed button shrinks — going there should never be the easy option. In its place you get "Find alternative websites": one tap and Sus or Bus suggests well-known, reputable websites that serve the same purpose as the flagged site. If a shady outlet store is selling designer sunglasses at half price, the extension suggests the official brand store and established authorized retailers. If a download site looks suspicious, it points you to the official vendor page. Suggestions include the site name, the full URL, and a one-line reason why it is a safe alternative — and every suggestion is checked for legitimacy. This feature also lives on the Sus or Bus website: every SUS report for a website includes the same alternative finder. WHAT THE SAFETY ENGINE CHECKS Every scan looks at the actual content and behavior of the site, not just a URL string. The engine checks for classic phishing markers (login or payment forms on suspicious domains, requests for passwords or card details, urgent scare-tactic language), fake shop warning signs (unrealistic discounts, missing contact information, copied or nonsensical legal pages), tech-support and "you have a virus" scam patterns, crypto investment fraud signals, suspicious download patterns, misleading redirects, tracking technologies and what data the site collects, domain and brand impersonation (lookalike spellings of famous brands), the site's overall content quality and technical fingerprint, and much more. Good signs …