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Jan from ToS;DR here. Please ask if you have any questions! And if you want to contribute, come join us! http://tosdr.org/contribute.html http://tosdr.org/cont

Jan from ToS;DR here. Please ask if you have any questions! And if you want to contribute, come join us! http://tosdr.org/contribute.html http://tosdr.org/contribute.html We are a completely non-profit and open-source project. Source at http://github.com/tosdr http://github.com/tosdr and API at http://tosdr.org/api.html http://tosdr.org/api.html Please note though that nothing in the page is legal advice. We just want to help people know a bit better what Terms of Service say.

seferphier 13y ago
Great service. You need to put in the version / date of these ToS, otherwise it would be hard to update. I would also keep an archive of all the ToS on your servers since volunteers would like to use track changes as a new version is published rather than re-reading the ToS. It would be also interesting to see how the terms have changed through the years. A great feature would be to categorize these services by category. Eg: for search engine: Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo. You could add a more comprehensive chart on the terms and how it compares across these services. Eg: Tracking: Google keeps ur data. DuckDuckGo does not track user data.
- hugoroy 13y ago
  Hi. Exactly, we're trying to fix this with http://github.com/tosdr/ToSBack3 http://github.com/tosdr/ToSBack3 but this is not ready unfortunately :-(
  - seferphier 13y ago
    very cool. thank you for all your work. I also suggest that I can click into the brief description which will bring us to the exact term in question and highlight any other relevant terms. This may increase the chances of people reading the ToS and also increase participation. If I was reading a term on your site and I was referred to the actual term and realized that ToS;DR is incorrect, i would likely to correct it.
mikegagnon 13y ago
Awesome idea. This is the first Chrome extension I have ever found worth installing. Thanks! I think one issue with a service like this, is that your rating of TOS provisions might not match with my own. Which is why it's great that you link your rankings to discussions of provisions and their rating.
- jancborchardt 13y ago
  Thank you! And yes, we try to be as objective as possible of course. That’s also why we think it’s very important that everything we do is open.
- quadrangle 13y ago
  You don't even bother with AdBlock? C'mon. You can always whitelist sites where you support the ads. Ghostery is good (essential?) too.
  - jancborchardt 13y ago
    Ghostery is proprietary though. I recommend http://disconnect.me http://disconnect.me instead. Also, HTTPS Everywhere http://eff.org/https-everywhere http://eff.org/https-everywhere
mathattack 13y ago
The service is great for what it is. TL;DR - Someone please read the legal mumbo jumbo for me. I'm not a lawyer either. I could spend 2 hours reading the fine print and making a best guess, or someone else could read it for all of us. Highly efficient, and not even an ironic "If you follow our advice you can't hold us liable" comment. :-)

seferphier 13y ago

Great service. You need to put in the version / date of these ToS, otherwise it would be hard to update. I would also keep an archive of all the ToS on your servers since volunteers would like to use track changes as a new version is published rather than re-reading the ToS. It would be also interesting to see how the terms have changed through the years. A great feature would be to categorize these services by category. Eg: for search engine: Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo. You could add a more comprehensive chart on the terms and how it compares across these services. Eg: Tracking: Google keeps ur data. DuckDuckGo does not track user data.

hugoroy 13y ago
Hi. Exactly, we're trying to fix this with http://github.com/tosdr/ToSBack3 http://github.com/tosdr/ToSBack3 but this is not ready unfortunately :-(
- seferphier 13y ago
  very cool. thank you for all your work. I also suggest that I can click into the brief description which will bring us to the exact term in question and highlight any other relevant terms. This may increase the chances of people reading the ToS and also increase participation. If I was reading a term on your site and I was referred to the actual term and realized that ToS;DR is incorrect, i would likely to correct it.

mikegagnon 13y ago

Awesome idea. This is the first Chrome extension I have ever found worth installing. Thanks! I think one issue with a service like this, is that your rating of TOS provisions might not match with my own. Which is why it's great that you link your rankings to discussions of provisions and their rating.

jancborchardt 13y ago
Thank you! And yes, we try to be as objective as possible of course. That’s also why we think it’s very important that everything we do is open.
quadrangle 13y ago
You don't even bother with AdBlock? C'mon. You can always whitelist sites where you support the ads. Ghostery is good (essential?) too.
- jancborchardt 13y ago
  Ghostery is proprietary though. I recommend http://disconnect.me http://disconnect.me instead. Also, HTTPS Everywhere http://eff.org/https-everywhere http://eff.org/https-everywhere

mathattack 13y ago

The service is great for what it is. TL;DR - Someone please read the legal mumbo jumbo for me. I'm not a lawyer either. I could spend 2 hours reading the fine print and making a best guess, or someone else could read it for all of us. Highly efficient, and not even an ironic "If you follow our advice you can't hold us liable" comment. :-)