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This seems like a nice resource for swashing through the terms and conditions jungle: https://tosdr.org/

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Wow, some of these are scary.

"No Right to leave the service" - Delicious

"The Android app can record sound & video from your phone, at any time, without your consent" - Facebook

The sweetest of them all seems to be DDG

Scary, but apparently not enough to keep people from using said services. I can't tell if people are simply indifferent to it no matter what you had them agree to, or just ignorant of what some of these apps do.

Came here to say that tosdr is much simpler because that video stream is like listening to a text2speech version of a large and complex legal text. Combined with a crackly norwegian accent that's even hard for me as a swede to accept.

The way it is titled on the Norwegian version of the page ("We read app terms and conditions minute by minute") they're probably partly spoofing the successful NRK 'slow TV shows'[1] that were all titled thus. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VYVjR_nwE

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television#Norwegian_Broa...

This is correct, as can be seen from the following tweet retweeted by Forbrukerrådet and therefore currently on display on the OP link: https://mobile.twitter.com/PRlinjen/status/73507293647489024...

I really don't think the point of the stream is to provide simple way consume T&Cs, more the opposite really.

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