Terms of Service: Does anyone read them before clicking accept?

[Somewhere_]

I never read them, but never forget that the terms of service are actually legally binding.

 

[Desert Stream~]

Eh, what's the point lol. I feel like they try to confuse you. It doesn't take 500 words to say "Don't give this out to people"

 

[Tsutarja]

FWIW, not all ToS agreements are "long" as well. Take this page from a higher education institution on network usage:

Spoiler:

 

[ddrox13]

To quote (or at least paraphrase, I'm doing this from memory) John Oliver:

"Apple could put the entire text of Mein Kampf in their user agreement and no one would notice"

 

[Palamon]

I don't bother reading the Terms of Service. Waste of time.

 

[DeusPro]

To quote (or at least paraphrase, I'm doing this from memory) John Oliver:

"Apple could put the entire text of Mein Kampf in their user agreement and no one would notice"

Couldn't have put it better myself. No one gives a flying fuck about that shit, unless if some sort of situation that warrants actually reading it arises. But nobody will actually do that. It's a waste of everyone's time.

 

[Kai]

Only if it's worth reading.

 

[Sawsbuck]

I'd rather read an actual novel, rather than a wannabe novel like the ToS

 

[VoltYellow]

I never read em... They are uninteresting and sometimes long enough to take some days to read it :p

 

[KNS27]

only Pokemon shuffle I read.

The rest of them I skip it.

 

[AkameTheBulbasaur]

After I watched a South Park episode when I was thirteen or fourteen where Kyle gets turned into a human centipede because it was in the terms of service and he never read them, I read all the terms of service from front to back for a good month afterwards.

Then I realized you could just command-F and search for words like "kidnap" or "surgery" or "human centipede" and I didn't have to do all that work.

Nowadays I mostly skim it to get the general idea. It's usually the same "don't sell this to other people" kind of stuff so it's nothing too ground breaking.

 

[Tinfoil hat]

No, however I once saw some film about the tos and how it is generally applied to the general user, hilariously one tos/Eula had in agreement that they would own the users soul if they agreed