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The site has a download for the differences, which is very useful. I wish every company would provide that with their TOS updates.

https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.2-v1.3-diff.docx

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> I wish every company would provide that with their TOS updates

The companies for which you want that are probably the companies who don't want you to figure out what changed though, so little luck of that happening

Maybe someone could make a tool to generate such a diff automatically.

We could call it 'diff(1)'

Calling it exactly what it does... That's a bit 'on the nose', isn't it? Shouldn't we call it "gadget", or "razlika", or "moon beam" ? Something cool and confusing, with an available domain name for our flashy homepage and mascot. How else will we popularize and monetize it?

Don't forget to include a "Made with ♡ by ..." somewhere on the page.

dffr-bleed, but you forgot that we need a really good logo.

You can compare documents in Word - it won't help if the boilerplate changed that much but it can help with certain sections.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/compare-and-merge...

(It shows how to also "merge" but you don't have to merge, it will highlight the differences.)

Google Docs Viewer link if you don't want to download and look at it:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fletsencrypt...

You can find them for many companies here:

https://github.com/OpenTermsArchive/contrib-versions

> I wish every company would provide that with their TOS updates.

Agree, now I remember that at least Google is doing it.

TOS: https://policies.google.com/terms/archive/20200331-20220105

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