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Ask HN: Legal texts from websites, how to trust it?
While using the web, we accept many privacy policies and terms of services, but it feels weird.
Unlike a paper contract, where I have a copy of it, on a website, I've never saved a page from one of those websites, and they could modify it without warning me.
Is there a website that monitors this? Or there's some industry standard that every website follows it and I'm being overconcerned?
- WIlliamLove 2y agoYou should be concerned. There isn't a good monitoring website for this.
- h2odragon 2y agoI feel certain there have been multiple "ToS Watcher" services, that kept tabs and diffs of the bigger sites ToS pages, at least. I cannot find any evidence such ever existed in a quick search right now however.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoI also remember seeing those, but the only thing I found with a quick google was this: https://visualping.io/blog/how-to-monitor-changes-in-terms-and-conditions/ https://visualping.io/blog/how-to-monitor-changes-in-terms-a...