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There's a TOS?

Since when? Do I need to click OK to agree to it before I can watch any videos? Do I need to do this each time I load up the website?

I don't think I've ever seen a TOS for YT (although I must admit I'm very good at not actively being and to remember actions that have become habitual).

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Here's the YouTube TOS. I believe they ask you to agree to it along with the cookie policy banner that shows up when you don't have cookies stored:

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

Edit: actually you're right they don't explicitly ask you to agree to the TOS, but the TOS contains this paragraph.

> If you do not understand the Agreement, or do not accept any part of it, then you may not use the Service

So I guess the agreement is implicit rather than explicit.

Something that I'm not even asked to read, just shown a link to alongside the link to the privacy policy, doesn't seem like any kind of "agreement" If it's necessary for me to read something as part of an agreement then I need to be told of this, i.e. for any "meeting of the minds" to have happened.

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