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Tumblr Terms and Privacy Policy diff

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Here are some clearer diffs:

Wow, that was amazing to look at! Much easier than a github diff of HTML.

If you're younger than 13, don't use Tumblr.

-Ask your parents for an Xbox or try books.

+Ask your parents for a Playstation 4, or try books.

Playstation 4 confirmed next-gen console winner by Yahoo. Is that good or bad?

I wonder how many 13 year olds will read that....

I'd wager less than 10.

-<p> If you are a registered user, you can access and delete most information associated with your Account

+<p> If you are a registered user, you can access most information associated with your Account

You can get rid of the irrelevant white-space changes by adding ?w=1 to the URL:

https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/commit/957775e52dad75012db...

Is there a tl;dr of the shocking changes we should all be complaining about?

I don't know why this was a link to tosdr rather than Tumblr's own diffs. I am not even certain whether to trust it as the content doesn't seem to be the same as Tumblr's. (That, or maybe I am myself simply confused.) Regardless, here was a "shocking change".

https://github.com/tumblr/policy/compare/2cfe3c8668...adfff3...

It's in the official one: http://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/community

But not in the one linked by this submission to tosdr.

Upvoted, not be cause of the tl;dr request, but for the "shocking changes we should all be complaining about". It made me laugh and then think about the peculiar nature of this community.

It's hard to tell which of these changes are minor legal optimizations, and which are actually suggestive of a different relationship between Tumblr and its users.

In the top paragraph, for instance, "personal" is struck from the phrase: "takes the private nature of your personal information very seriously." Are they taking _more_ of my information seriously or are they subtly suggesting that my information is no longer "personal"?

It'd be nice to see a finer-grained diff.

Oh:

+ Don't do things that would cause confusion between you or your blog and a + person or company, like registering a deliberately confusing URL. Don't + impersonate anyone. While you're free to ridicule, parody, or marvel at the + alien beauty of Benedict Cumberbatch, you can't pretend to actually be + Benedict Cumberbatch.

The first line of diff tells me how serious they took grammar into account...

From Tumblr, Inc. ("Tumblr", "we", "us", or "our") to Tumblr, Inc. ("Tumblr," "we," "us," or "our")

Out of context: "Tumblr may determine your location by using drone technology and live video feeds"

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