Is it just me or is everything updating its TOS agreement right now?
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Almost every account and subscription service I have has pushed a TOS or privacy policy update in the last couple weeks. I remember this happening around the time the EU enacted their cookies/advertising laws about a decade ago. And obviously companies update independently from time to time. But this legitimately feels like a couple dozen emails from all different kinds of services all updating/changing things in response to some external influence or event. Anyone else have a similar experience and/or have any idea what have been the "cause"?
Yes, it's because of enshittification. Companies need to change their TOS to allow them to
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Almost every account and subscription service I have has pushed a TOS or privacy policy update in the last couple weeks. I remember this happening around the time the EU enacted their cookies/advertising laws about a decade ago. And obviously companies update independently from time to time. But this legitimately feels like a couple dozen emails from all different kinds of services all updating/changing things in response to some external influence or event. Anyone else have a similar experience and/or have any idea what have been the "cause"?
Checks headquarter location of various tech companies "USA"
Checks recent events in the US
Click on 2024 Presidential Election
Oh... Oooohhh
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Checks headquarter location of various tech companies "USA"
Checks recent events in the US
Click on 2024 Presidential Election
Oh... Oooohhh
My first thought lol
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Almost every account and subscription service I have has pushed a TOS or privacy policy update in the last couple weeks. I remember this happening around the time the EU enacted their cookies/advertising laws about a decade ago. And obviously companies update independently from time to time. But this legitimately feels like a couple dozen emails from all different kinds of services all updating/changing things in response to some external influence or event. Anyone else have a similar experience and/or have any idea what have been the "cause"?
Yah, it's corporations consolidating power and paving the way for AI getting all up in your ass.
Over the next several years a lot of tech companies are going to be restructuring everything based around AI and other new technological ideas none of us asked for.
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I think you’re just noticing now. This continually happens as companies get sued for harming people, and they adjust to not get sued.
TOS are always updated due to lawsuits, since companies always try to grab the maximum profit irrespective of the human cost, until people sue them. That’s always been the case.
e: sometimes products are straight-up pulled from the market for killing people. Look up videos of old products that are illegal now, like uranium in child’s chemistry sets or lawn darts.
uranium in child’s chemistry sets or lawn darts.
Yeah, i always make sure to get my kids the lawn darts WITHOUT uranium.
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Almost every account and subscription service I have has pushed a TOS or privacy policy update in the last couple weeks. I remember this happening around the time the EU enacted their cookies/advertising laws about a decade ago. And obviously companies update independently from time to time. But this legitimately feels like a couple dozen emails from all different kinds of services all updating/changing things in response to some external influence or event. Anyone else have a similar experience and/or have any idea what have been the "cause"?
The rich of the world are trying to pivot their wealth into setting up an automated form of global fascism where they control all resources.
Planatir is the tool that is spearheading this project
This is what they are doing instead of allowing wealth redistribution to fix our economies.
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I was wondering the same thing. I checked my email, and over the past month I've received an email about policy changes from:
Discord
Anthropic (Claude)
Nintendo
YouTube
Meta
Airbnb
MicrosoftI don't think it can be just a coincidence. At least a couple of them specifically mention the UK’s Online Safety Act so maybe that's the reason?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I think this is the most likely culprit for the very recent uptick im noticing and trying to articulate with this post.
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Amazon emailed me to let me know my prime invite (I’m not the prime Prime member) is being cancelled next month, so I have to get my own prime account. And then Spotify emailed about their greedy-ass decision to copycat Netflix and restrict account sharing between different locations.
Timing sucks for me because my health insurance plan is tripling and the state took away my cell phone allowance.
Thanks, Trump!
Yoho yoho!
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Almost every account and subscription service I have has pushed a TOS or privacy policy update in the last couple weeks. I remember this happening around the time the EU enacted their cookies/advertising laws about a decade ago. And obviously companies update independently from time to time. But this legitimately feels like a couple dozen emails from all different kinds of services all updating/changing things in response to some external influence or event. Anyone else have a similar experience and/or have any idea what have been the "cause"?
Might have something to do with a bunch of countries wanting to start implementing age verification standards.
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Almost every account and subscription service I have has pushed a TOS or privacy policy update in the last couple weeks. I remember this happening around the time the EU enacted their cookies/advertising laws about a decade ago. And obviously companies update independently from time to time. But this legitimately feels like a couple dozen emails from all different kinds of services all updating/changing things in response to some external influence or event. Anyone else have a similar experience and/or have any idea what have been the "cause"?
Yeah cuz of age verification laws and AI... even VINTED changed its TOS in favour of AI
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Almost every account and subscription service I have has pushed a TOS or privacy policy update in the last couple weeks. I remember this happening around the time the EU enacted their cookies/advertising laws about a decade ago. And obviously companies update independently from time to time. But this legitimately feels like a couple dozen emails from all different kinds of services all updating/changing things in response to some external influence or event. Anyone else have a similar experience and/or have any idea what have been the "cause"?
Yep, had to delete my notes APP too, because it wanted to hold my Notes ransom until I agree to let all of them be processed.
Good that I already switched to Über notes once this AI became implemented in everything
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Yep, had to delete my notes APP too, because it wanted to hold my Notes ransom until I agree to let all of them be processed.
Good that I already switched to Über notes once this AI became implemented in everything
You might want to host a memos page for note-taking they'll always try to pull this on you unless you self-host
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uranium in child’s chemistry sets or lawn darts.
Yeah, i always make sure to get my kids the lawn darts WITHOUT uranium.
Without?? Back in my days, we walked 15 miles for uranium lawn darts. In the snow. Without shoes. Both ways!
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You might want to host a memos page for note-taking they'll always try to pull this on you unless you self-host
I have to use Hand written notes, so I'm using Saber Notes with my own Nextcloud as backup
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I wish ToS;dr (Terms of Service; Didn't Read) had a changelog for when companies made changes.
https://opentermsarchive.org/en/
Coverage is not super good, though. It's open to contributions of services and content selectors.
