Source Light by Source Light

Source Light brings ethical product insight directly into your Amazon shopping experience. When you open a supported Amazon product page, the extension activates automatically and displays a dedicated toolbar at the top of the page with ethical scoring information for the item you are viewing. Its goal is to help you assess products using more than price, brand recognition, or customer ratings alone. By placing ethical analysis directly on the product page, Source Light makes it easier to consider broader product impacts without leaving Amazon to research them separately.

The extension is designed specifically for supported Amazon product detail pages and common Amazon product URL formats. It reads core product information from the page, including the ASIN, product title, brand, and top-level category. That product-related information is then passed through the extension’s background service to the Source Light backend so the relevant analysis can be retrieved. Once the results are available, the toolbar updates to show ethical scores in a clear, structured layout that is easy to scan while browsing.

Source Light presents ratings across six ethical dimensions: Human Rights, Health, Eco-Impact, Animal Welfare, Local Sourcing, and Local Production. Each dimension is displayed with a label, a numeric score, and a visual style that reflects score quality. Higher scores are shown as stronger results, mid-range scores as moderate, and lower scores as weaker, making it easier to compare categories at a glance. The interface also uses category icons to improve clarity and help users quickly connect each dimension to the type of ethical consideration being measured.

The experience is built to feel informative without becoming disruptive. While analysis is in progress, the toolbar shows a loading state with a spinner and a clear message indicating that ethical dimensions are being analyzed. If the service cannot retrieve results, the extension switches to an error state so you know the scores could not be loaded. When data is available, Source Light does more than show a simple score. It can also present detailed explanations for each dimension in readable bullet points, along with listed source names where available. This helps provide context behind the ratings rather than only presenting summary numbers.

The toolbar is polished and practical, with branded elements, a tagline, and a close button so you can hide it whenever you want. It appears with a smooth transition and adjusts the page layout to make room, helping the integration feel natural within the browsing experience. The extension also handles incomplete results gracefully by showing only the dimensions for which data is available instead of filling the interface with empty sections.

Overall, Source Light is intended for shoppers who want more context at the moment of purchase. By surfacing ethical insights directly on Amazon product pages, it supports more informed decisions around sustainability, health-related considerations, sourcing practices, labor concerns, and similar factors.

Key Features:
- Automatically activates on supported Amazon product pages and analyzes the current item.
- Extracts product ASIN, title, brand, and category from the page to identify the item being viewed.
- Displays ethical ratings across six dimensions: Human Rights, Health, Eco-Impact, Animal Welfare, Local Sourcing, and Local Production.
- Uses a top-of-page toolbar with visual score states, icons, loading feedback, and a close option.
- Shows detailed score explanations in bullet-point form along with source names when available.
- Handles unavailable or incomplete data gracefully by showing only returned dimensions or an error state when needed.
- Integrates directly into the shopping flow so ethical insight is available without leaving the product page.

How It Works:
1. Open a supported Amazon product page in your browser.
2. The extension reads the page to identify the product ASIN, title, brand, and top-level category.
3. This product-related information is sent through the extension’s background service to the Source Light backend.
4. While the analysis is being processed, a toolbar appears at the top of the page with a loading message and spinner.
5. When results are returned, the toolbar displays available ethical scores, visual score states, explanations, and source references where available.
6. If scores cannot be retrieved, the toolbar shows an error message instead of results.
7. You can review the information directly on the page or close the toolbar whenever you no longer want to see it.

Privacy: - This extension sends product-related page data, including ASIN, product name, brand, and category, to a Source Light backend service in order to retrieve ethical scores. The provided information does not indicate collection of personal profile information, but product browsing context is used to deliver the extension’s functionality.