Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/terms-of-service-visualizing-the-length-of-internet-agreements/
Terms of Service: The Length of Common Digital Contracts Do you take the time to read the terms of service before you agree to when downloading the latest app or software?
Of course you do…
The world is awash with apps and internet services that ask potential users to agree to a service agreement. Most people click on ‘agree’ and move on, knowing that reading the service agreements could put them to sleep and defer their favorite internet fix.
I love it when they force you to scroll. It’s such theater.
This could be posted in Cool Guides.
With my attention span, it would take me at least three three times as long to read the Microsoft TOS.
Who did they have time this shit? A speed reader?
Good guy VLC: https://www.videolan.org/legal.html
What are the usage restrictions for VideoLAN software? Short answer: there are none. You can use the software in the way you want (within the boundary of law), for personal, educational, research, military, governmental, professional purpose or any other way…
May I redistribute a piece of VideoLAN software? Yes, you may distribute an original or a modified version of a piece of VideoLAN software as long as you comply with its license terms. Most pieces of software from VideoLAN are licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 (referred herein as GPL). You will find a license file named COPYING in all our products.
Note: You do not need to ask VideoLAN the permission to distribute VideoLAN software!
I’ve tried to read the full terms of service before and on top of being very long, they’re overly vague when it comes to what they collect.
Yeah … not only are they long, they’re written by lawyers who are trying to obfuscate things while still covering the company’s ass legally.
Good guy instagram is still horrible
We need a new sub for “data is horrifying”.
a bit ironic that tiktok, know for the 15 second vertical videos, have one of the longest tos
This is a terrible graphic, the “short” documents should be proportional to length, while they’re not.
That was my favorite part of switching to Lemmy. My Instance’s terms of service were a few paragraphs.
Would be interesting having the GPL v3 in there for comparison.
3% people being liars seems kinda low.
Luckily clicking a checkbox is not legally binding with regard to such terms of service.
What is hidden in these terms is of course their abuse of your personal information, which probably is enough for plausible deniability.
But there’s a reason these companies are regularly fined in EU, and that is that their practices are often illegal, despite they “allow themselves” to do it by their own terms.Is their ToS fully legal in the US or are parts of them illegal there too?
