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.
So just curious, in chapter twenty section four subsection LV “our kidneys” defined as the kidneys being maintained by the signatory (or signer) Will be released upon termination.
I’m just curious is it termination of the contract or termination of the kidney holder?
Would be interesting having the GPL v3 in there for comparison.
GPLv3 comes out to 5215 words, so pretty long.
3% people being liars seems kinda low.
That was my favorite part of switching to Lemmy. My Instance’s terms of service were a few paragraphs.
We need a new sub for “data is horrifying”.
Good guy instagram is still horrible
a bit ironic that tiktok, known 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.
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?
Idk too many people who can read the art of war in under an hour, either :p
They base the reading time by assuming someone reads 240 words per minute (stated near the top of the infograph, on the right.)
My guess is they didn’t actually time somebody reading the terms and conditions, but rather they took the total word count and divided it by 240.
I wondered where they got the number from, too. I found a page discussing a meta analysis of English reading speeds that concluded that for silent reading, people commonly read 238 words per minute. The infographic probably took that average and rounded it up to 240.
Though considering the jargon and opacity of most “terms and conditions,” I imagine the reality to be that most people take longer to read through it than if they were reading something for pleasure.
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!
That’s a nice summary, but the GPLv2 is about 2500 words…
it’s a very clear license and it’s only 1 that many softwares use, you read it once and you don’t have anymore; The GPL is also just about redistribution, code changes etc etc it does not affect the final user, you only look at the license if you care about it or if you are a developer
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.
It’s all fuckin moot because most of them say something like “these terms can be changed at any time and by agreeing to these terms, you implicitly agree to those terms”.
Probably wouldn’t stand up in court, but most people don’t have the money to fight a court case they would obviously win, so that doesn’t matter either.
This could be posted in Cool Guides.
I love it when they force you to scroll. It’s such theater.
I wonder if any such company tried to use this as evidence in court: “the defendant has scrolled through the terms so the statement that he hasn’t read them is not factual”
I’m pretty sure YouTube’s TOS demands acceptance of every other Google product TOS.
If we tack those on, I wonder if it could get to the moon and back in 12 point font?
Edit: I cannot wrap my head around how long the combination must be.
I suppose the times are reading times. Not understanding times. And especially not ‘pondering about how this will fuck me in the ass one day’ times.
That should be illegal.
