#tosdr

Other day, my friend and I were debating if Facebook and other popular internet services can mess with our data as well as share it with government agencies if agencies demand it. He was of the opinion they can't do that, people would strongly react and stop using the service or even delete their accounts. I duckduckgo-ed (sorry, I don't use Google for my internet searches) about Terms of Service of popular websites and turns out they are too long. Also, they are usually written in heavy legalese and we're not law students. On further research we found a project called Terms of Service; Didn't Read.

The project was started in 2012 in Berlin to help fix the "biggest lie on the web": > Almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.

Since then, it has become a crowd-sourced (meaning relies on internet users for contributions) open-source project which analyzes and monitors (which is kind of important because Apple and other companies change their ToS all the time) the Terms of Service for major internet based services.

Below is comparison between Google and DuckDuckGo (a search engine that unlike Google protects user privacy):

They have got analysis on even more popular internet products / apps such as YouTube, Facebook and Amazon. These summaries will really give a new perspective about the internet services we have grown to rely on over the last decade. It might scare you (it did to me) and even lead you to change how you interact with these services.

Ne plus lire les conditions d’utilisation

Si vous êtes comme moi et que vous lisez les conditions d’utilisation d’un site avant inscription, ce qui va être détaillé ci-après ne vous concerne pas ……. quoi-que 🙂

C’est un lieu commun de dire que peu de personnes prennent le temps de lire ces fameuses conditions d’utilisation. La langue utilisée est souvent une barrière, ainsi que l’idée d’être barbouillé après avoir lu des pages et des…

Plugin TOSDR rates site Terms of Service as good or bad so that you never have to not read them again

Use the RedLaser app to scan product barcodes and find out if you can get a cheaper option elsewhere

Wikiwand is the Wikipedia app that makes getting info quick and pretty

every time i load a new tab in chrome, it turns into the terms of service page for that site. it happens every time i refresh tumblr and google. 

i’ve been trying to figure out how to make it stop and apparently some organization is doing a user rights initiative to help internet users not get fucked over by websites.

like okay, that’s nice and all ––– but can i have my tumblr back? gettin real tired of spontaneous terms and service interrupting my day. 

So tumblr was bought by Yahoo, and the TOS changed recently.  I liked the annotations within the TOS that summed up most sections in human-readable language, instead of legalize.  Mad props to Tumblr for that :)