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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 16:25:15 JST 翠星石

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   • Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
   @lightweight They just don't.
   
   They plaster lots of "terms of service" in many different places, but they don't version them or record their differences, so indeed you can't feasibly know which terms you "agree" to.
   
   Really, I haven't seen any "terms of service" from the sort that are fair contracts, plus the suckers (usually) haven't signed them either - so even the suckers arguably haven't agreed to the terms, although the legal system is on the side of businesses and not the suckers.
   
   
   Such "Terms of services" are yet another one of the proprietary tricks that assists with pulling things off that aren't even legally permitted.
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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 16:25:18 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

     Out of curiosity: do Microsoft/Apple/Google/Facebook publish a comprehensive set of all their software terms of service (what you have to 'read' and type 'I ACCEPT' on before using their software) that's dated, attributed to the specific app it applied to, with diffs for all changes?

     They all reserve the right to change them at their discretion & without notification, so how can anyone actually find out after the fact, what terms they've agreed to?

     I've looked, but never found such a thing.