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What I do is spot check, i.e. open an agreement, pick two or three spots at random, and do my best to read and understand those. My hope is if just 1000 people
by Hackbraten 3y ago
What I do is spot check, i.e. open an agreement, pick two or three spots at random, and do my best to read and understand those. My hope is if just 1000 people did that, they’d be able to collectively spot unexpected/unacceptable terms and make them public.
- nabogh 3y agoGood idea. I might start doing this
- FranGro78 3y agoSounds like building something simple that aids in tracking “coverage” of reviewing ToSs could be useful to increase that the odds of spotting something untoward? Iirc there was (is?) a site which gives a rating to the various license agreements of popular services and the like, so maybe it’s a solved problem?
- Hasnep 3y agoI have the TOS;DR extension [1] and it gives a rating to each website's TOS and offers an explanation of the key points. [1] https://tosdr.org/ https://tosdr.org/
- __s 3y agoI remember seeing iTunes terms tell me I could not use the software to run a nuclear reactor
- defrost 3y agoThey're just Debbie Downers trying to stop you having the mother of all acid lights shows by bouncing control rods in a Ibisa swimming pool reactor. Cherenkov radiation for the masses I say.
- more_corn 3y agoI bet ChatGPT could summarize
- gardenhedge 3y agoand what if you find something? tweet into the void?
- Hackbraten 3y agoIf it’s an app from a walled garden, you can leave a critical review. People can filter for those before they buy or download. If it’s some other piece of software, you can go to a package repository such as the AUR [1] or Chocolatey [2], and leave a comment for the package even if it’s non-free. If it’s a pure SaaS, there’s little you can do though, apart from tweeting, word-of-mouth, or Google reviews. [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org https://aur.archlinux.org [2]: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages https://community.chocolatey.org/packages
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