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asdfasgasdgasdgtoday at 6:08 AM1 replyview on HN

You can just read the TOS if it is that big of a deal to you. They aren’t that long. Probably twenty minutes of reading.

People don’t do that because the terms basically say “you can use the service if you act normal. In the context of providing the service we may do any number of things a normal person would expect us to do.”

Reading them isn’t a good use of tim because most people using the service were going to act normal. But we collectively forced them to make the terms this long by suing companies when the terms weren’t clear and by deciding that the letter of the law matters more than what’s sensible. Accepting long terms of service is just the consequence of our collective decisions.


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iamacyborgtoday at 6:41 AM

This is actually a good use of an LLM, get it to scan the legalese for you and look for anything unusual.