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Can anyone who understands legal stuff explain this? As a layman Roku’s popup seemed wildly insufficient verification that the account owners were the ones accepting these TOS.

not legal, but yes theyll probably get sued for this.

Not an expert but have worked on similar stuff and there’s no specific controls that I know of around specifically verifying that the account owner sees these things, just that they’re made available and the account is notified.

The whole point of having a quick, online opt-in and an elaborate "mail us a notarized letter" opt-out is to make it very easy to opt in. Why would they want to make it harder? They're already on dodgy legal ground, and the "enter your PIN" wouldn't make it much firmer.

You're thinking like an engineer given the problem of "get people's consent" instead of like a businessman with the goal of "altering the deal."

Someone else pointed out that they can’t even prove it wasnt a dog who agreed by chewing on the remote. Yet somehow these clicks are still considered to legally bind the owner.