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Voice Actor Turns Instagram's Terms of Service into 51-Minute Sleep Aid

108 points by isaacfrond 3y ago

bamboozled 3y ago
Incredible, such a dystopian vibe.
gtirloni 3y ago
This is the actual content: https://www.zzzuckerberg.com https://www.zzzuckerberg.com
- bitsinthesky 3y ago
  I couldn't get it to sound, so upon finding the audio itself, https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKERBERG_1.mp3 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKER... , I got "Link temporarily disabled. This can happen when the link has been shared or downloaded too many times in a day. Check back later and we’ll open access to more people." Hopefully it's revived later!
  - kevincox 3y ago
    I found the Instagram one archived by Archive.org. I've taken a copy: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmToxaef3ZibzWyqsiMgaEj529suhgv5g6SXuz6QQgGkc2?filename=ZZZUCKERBERG.mp3 https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmToxaef3ZibzWyqsiMgaEj529suhgv5g6SXuz6... Original: https://web.archive.org/web/20230706124748im_/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKERBERG_1.mp3?dl=0 https://web.archive.org/web/20230706124748im_/https://dl.dro... The TikTok one doesn't appear to have been archived before the link was disabled.
- Waterluvian 3y ago
  I love the clouds and how it dims as you scroll. I think it would be cool if the words faded away as you went past them. A sense of completion. Accomplishment. Ready for sleep.
sunbum 3y ago
And gone because they use dropbox as a CDN.
- kevincox 3y ago
  Yup. It seems that the song was https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKERBERG_1.mp3?dl=0 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKER... and is returning 429 with a message saying that it has been disabled.
chirau 3y ago
I can't hear any sound when I click the links to the lullaby. Am i missing something?
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
- ChatGTP 3y ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20230706124748im_/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKERBERG_1.mp3?dl=0 https://web.archive.org/web/20230706124748im_/https://dl.dro...
bell-cot 3y ago
Fond Fantasy: If $Company can't demonstrate that their average user has actually read (and passably understood) their ToS, then a basic requirement of Contract Law is clearly not being fulfilled...so their ToS is not legally binding on their users.
- herval 3y ago
  this would open the possibility for anyone to invalidate any contract by claiming they didn't read or couldn't understand it
  - ImHereToVote 3y ago
    How so. You only need to show what the average user does.
    - ses1984 3y ago
      Which user is average? The average user is theoretical. Go find a family that has the average 2.3 children.
      - wigster 3y ago
        the Drummonds
      - bitsinthesky 3y ago
        You can compare whether a family has < or > than 2.3 children though even though no single family is =
        tzmudzin 3y ago
        So… an average person has slightly less than a single ovary AND slightly less than a single testicle. How would your method work on that? My point being: statistics has developed arcane methods to describe a population. One should not blindly force the most common measure on every case.
Fricken 3y ago
On a road trip once I spent an hour reciting to my friend the 23 page TOS one must agree to to use Tim Hortons wifi.
- deleted 3y ago
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matsemann 3y ago
The Norwegian Consumer Council did a stunt like this a few years ago, where they read terms of services for lots of products, spent over 37 hours reading. Invited politicians to read parts of it etc, and made it a whole event. In Norway we love "slow-tv", so it was in that spirit. https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/250000-words-of-app-terms-and-conditions/ https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/250000-words-of-app-terms... Here they got a minister to run on a treadmill until they had read through the ToS of her fitness tracker app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAhTVVxIyE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAhTVVxIyE
bitsinthesky 3y ago
This is beautiful. I could see a series of poetically spoken terms of service as a successful podcast. Are terms of service's copyrighted? I'm also daydreaming how nice it would be if AI text2speech got to this quality ;)
rpaddock 3y ago
From the article: "Instagram, like many social networks, is designed to get you to consume as much content as possible in a single sitting. " The recently permanently disabled my account for violating their ToS. I've not posted anything on Instagram for years and what I did post, years ago, was related to our documentary Pain Warriors. Nothing in their explanation makes any sense to be cause for the account to be terminated. Not going to be getting anything from anyone in any 'sitting', by doing such things. Also I had SMS Two Factor Authentication turned on. I know SMS has issues, at the time I enabled it, it was the only option. To file an appeal I have to login. They never actually send the SMS to my phone, so it is impossible to login to file the appeal. Many other people are having the same issue from my searching.
omgmajk 3y ago
Damnit, there goes my youtube idea. Reading ToS on various sites in a whispering voice.
vogon_laureate 3y ago
This is great, but he sounds way too upbeat. Imagine this but with the guy who does the Coreteks YouTube channel.[1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX_t3BvnQtS5IHzto_y7tbw

108 points by isaacfrond 3y ago

bamboozled 3y ago

Incredible, such a dystopian vibe.

gtirloni 3y ago

This is the actual content: https://www.zzzuckerberg.com https://www.zzzuckerberg.com

bitsinthesky 3y ago
I couldn't get it to sound, so upon finding the audio itself, https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKERBERG_1.mp3 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKER... , I got "Link temporarily disabled. This can happen when the link has been shared or downloaded too many times in a day. Check back later and we’ll open access to more people." Hopefully it's revived later!
- kevincox 3y ago
  I found the Instagram one archived by Archive.org. I've taken a copy: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmToxaef3ZibzWyqsiMgaEj529suhgv5g6SXuz6QQgGkc2?filename=ZZZUCKERBERG.mp3 https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmToxaef3ZibzWyqsiMgaEj529suhgv5g6SXuz6... Original: https://web.archive.org/web/20230706124748im_/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKERBERG_1.mp3?dl=0 https://web.archive.org/web/20230706124748im_/https://dl.dro... The TikTok one doesn't appear to have been archived before the link was disabled.
Waterluvian 3y ago
I love the clouds and how it dims as you scroll. I think it would be cool if the words faded away as you went past them. A sense of completion. Accomplishment. Ready for sleep.

sunbum 3y ago

And gone because they use dropbox as a CDN.

kevincox 3y ago
Yup. It seems that the song was https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKERBERG_1.mp3?dl=0 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKER... and is returning 429 with a message saying that it has been disabled.

chirau 3y ago

I can't hear any sound when I click the links to the lullaby. Am i missing something?

deleted 3y ago
[deleted]
ChatGTP 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230706124748im_/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/d3qeb6ml5btlxhr/ZZZUCKERBERG_1.mp3?dl=0 https://web.archive.org/web/20230706124748im_/https://dl.dro...

bell-cot 3y ago

Fond Fantasy: If $Company can't demonstrate that their average user has actually read (and passably understood) their ToS, then a basic requirement of Contract Law is clearly not being fulfilled...so their ToS is not legally binding on their users.

herval 3y ago
this would open the possibility for anyone to invalidate any contract by claiming they didn't read or couldn't understand it
- ImHereToVote 3y ago
  How so. You only need to show what the average user does.
  - ses1984 3y ago
    Which user is average? The average user is theoretical. Go find a family that has the average 2.3 children.
    - wigster 3y ago
      the Drummonds
    - bitsinthesky 3y ago
      You can compare whether a family has < or > than 2.3 children though even though no single family is =
      - tzmudzin 3y ago
        So… an average person has slightly less than a single ovary AND slightly less than a single testicle. How would your method work on that? My point being: statistics has developed arcane methods to describe a population. One should not blindly force the most common measure on every case.

Fricken 3y ago

On a road trip once I spent an hour reciting to my friend the 23 page TOS one must agree to to use Tim Hortons wifi.

deleted 3y ago
[deleted]

matsemann 3y ago

The Norwegian Consumer Council did a stunt like this a few years ago, where they read terms of services for lots of products, spent over 37 hours reading. Invited politicians to read parts of it etc, and made it a whole event. In Norway we love "slow-tv", so it was in that spirit. https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/250000-words-of-app-terms-and-conditions/ https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/250000-words-of-app-terms... Here they got a minister to run on a treadmill until they had read through the ToS of her fitness tracker app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAhTVVxIyE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAhTVVxIyE

bitsinthesky 3y ago

This is beautiful. I could see a series of poetically spoken terms of service as a successful podcast. Are terms of service's copyrighted? I'm also daydreaming how nice it would be if AI text2speech got to this quality ;)

rpaddock 3y ago

From the article: "Instagram, like many social networks, is designed to get you to consume as much content as possible in a single sitting. " The recently permanently disabled my account for violating their ToS. I've not posted anything on Instagram for years and what I did post, years ago, was related to our documentary Pain Warriors. Nothing in their explanation makes any sense to be cause for the account to be terminated. Not going to be getting anything from anyone in any 'sitting', by doing such things. Also I had SMS Two Factor Authentication turned on. I know SMS has issues, at the time I enabled it, it was the only option. To file an appeal I have to login. They never actually send the SMS to my phone, so it is impossible to login to file the appeal. Many other people are having the same issue from my searching.

omgmajk 3y ago

Damnit, there goes my youtube idea. Reading ToS on various sites in a whispering voice.

vogon_laureate 3y ago

This is great, but he sounds way too upbeat. Imagine this but with the guy who does the Coreteks YouTube channel.[1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX_t3BvnQtS5IHzto_y7tbw