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Part of me wishes there was a law that companies had to implement checks that their customers read and understood the agreement. Timers, making sure people had

Part of me wishes there was a law that companies had to implement checks that their customers read and understood the agreement. Timers, making sure people had each line of text on the screen for a sufficient amount of time, and line by line video explainers. Just to expose the ridiculousness of it all.

smsm42 3y ago
I've seen timers on ToS screen. Of course, it just makes one wait a bit and take another sip of the drink before clicking OK without reading, because nobody can understand that shit anyway, time or no time.
saalweachter 3y ago
In one "inside a video game" LitRPG the main character gains an achievement for being the first person to read the ToS to the end before clicking "accept".
- justsomehnguy 3y ago
  Years ago the installer for some pirated game would display the game's EULA... only to show you 'Wow! Did you really read that in less than 10 seconds?!' pop-up after you click 'Agree'.
prepend 3y ago
It seems corporate training is testing this out. This there seems to be more video only, nonskippable training that make sure you spend an hour watching. For now, running them in a vm in the background works.
- kaashif 3y ago
  Even for the ones with quizzes at the end and lots interactive elements throughout (not a video), oftentimes the most time-efficient strategy is to speed click through and just guess the quiz answers using common sense. Hasn't failed me yet.
- Shish2k 3y ago
  This is another legal ass-covering thing, because “we give our employees 3 hours of safety training” will hold up better in court than “we give our employees 5 minutes of safety training” — the actual content of the course doesn’t matter, whether employees are acting safely or not doesn’t matter, the only thing that matters is how well the company can avoid liability.

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Part of me wishes there was a law that companies had to implement checks that their customers read and understood the agreement. Timers, making sure people had

by mindvirus 3y ago

smsm42 3y ago
I've seen timers on ToS screen. Of course, it just makes one wait a bit and take another sip of the drink before clicking OK without reading, because nobody can understand that shit anyway, time or no time.
saalweachter 3y ago
In one "inside a video game" LitRPG the main character gains an achievement for being the first person to read the ToS to the end before clicking "accept".
- justsomehnguy 3y ago
  Years ago the installer for some pirated game would display the game's EULA... only to show you 'Wow! Did you really read that in less than 10 seconds?!' pop-up after you click 'Agree'.
prepend 3y ago
It seems corporate training is testing this out. This there seems to be more video only, nonskippable training that make sure you spend an hour watching. For now, running them in a vm in the background works.
- kaashif 3y ago
  Even for the ones with quizzes at the end and lots interactive elements throughout (not a video), oftentimes the most time-efficient strategy is to speed click through and just guess the quiz answers using common sense. Hasn't failed me yet.
- Shish2k 3y ago
  This is another legal ass-covering thing, because “we give our employees 3 hours of safety training” will hold up better in court than “we give our employees 5 minutes of safety training” — the actual content of the course doesn’t matter, whether employees are acting safely or not doesn’t matter, the only thing that matters is how well the company can avoid liability.