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I wonder what the future of terms and services could look like, something interactive that you have to demonstrate understanding of the terms and shown a few co
by jxramos 3y ago
I wonder what the future of terms and services could look like, something interactive that you have to demonstrate understanding of the terms and shown a few concrete examples of situations that could possibly intersect with your lifestyle.
We see this sort of interactive verification of traversing training material at companies with their web training things. Some of the apps used by Amazon are very strict and have countdown clocks and all sorts of fancy javascript verifying you clicked and saw and interacted with various widgets in the training app.
- atoav 3y agoI mean this would be the dream — the problem is just, that those presenting you those terms have usually zero interest that you understand them. And as they have no incentive to make the terms understandable, they will only make it so if forced by regulation. I wished we would staff certain public services better. Preparing building blocks for something like you proposed is a service I would love to see offered by a data protection/privacy agency.
- yencabulator 3y agoWhat might help is people returning their purchases for a full refund every time they encounter any dirty tricks.
- jxramos 3y agothat could be a powerful cut to the chase mechanism if there's enforcement and legal justification backing such actions.
- yencabulator 3y agoIn EU hidden contract terms are illegal.