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The 'terms of service' stuff always puzzles me. Why does YouTube think its terms of service should be able to dictate which software I run on my computer.

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Because you agree to the terms of using their service when you use their service.

Nope, that's not a contract because there is no consideration.

Receiving a service is consideration.

If you reply to this comment I expect $10000000000 and your firstborn.

And your cat.

TOS are a joke made up by lawyers. I don't have to sign a TOS when I buy a cucumber, and I don't get my cucumber revoked if I stick it up my ass rather than eat it as was "intended".

No reason to complicate commerce just because it happens online. TOS needs to die in favour of a few simple standard rules.

A cucumber is a good, not a service.

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