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Ask HN: Why am I getting so many ToS update emails?
Today alone I have got emails from 6 different services informing me they updated their terms of service. Is this to get ready for new laws in 2023, or something else?
- ngoilapites 4y agoAnd, do I have agency to guarantee that they are fair to me?
- anthropodie 4y agoNope. Let's get as many users as possible and once they are hooked let's update ToS is the general approach it seems.
- autoexec 4y agophishing?
- unsupp0rted 4y agoHappens to me at the end of every year
- bronikowski 4y agoI got many, too. Some of those came from Polish services, so I'm guessing it's both changes to the law but also a "new year, new ideas" type of changes. We like to start anew.
- 0x008 4y agoI hope some day we can use chatGPT to give us the tl;dr of TOS changes.
- willcipriano 4y agoI'd like courts to find that giving someone a long contract online is responsible for you understanding it and if the bulk of users are confused to meaning of it, the parts that are confusing aren't legally binding.
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y agohttps://www.tosdr.org/ https://www.tosdr.org/
- nikanj 4y agoThere’s usually some variant of ”You have two weeks to react”, and it’s a good bet most people won’t be reacting to emails too fast around christmas holidays
- solardev 4y agoIt's a slow time for most non-retail businesses, and also a good time to sneak in user-hostile changes while users are busy with the holidays.