Comment by knallfrosch

2 months ago

read the TOS before agreeing

Let’s be real, the number of people who read it approaches zero.

Not only does no one read it but it seems like they are intentionally designed to be difficult to read.

They are written by lawyers for lawyers, not for common people to read.

  • You don't even have to actually read them, just assume the worst case for the customer and you'll be right.

  • LLMs actually do a good job at reading legalese, this may finally reverse the trend of corporations using inpenetrable language to screw over customers.

    Of course, that doesn't help in the US with its vicious Supreme Court endorsing the most blatant abuses under cover of binding aritration.

And then what? Go to Google, Samsung, any other Android vendor and read the same TOS?

There should be laws to protect people, instead of blaming victims.

Every single cloud storage provider has a generic cop-out clause in their TOS that allows them to lock you out of your account for no reason at all, with no legal obligation to provide any proper justification.

This leaves you with just about zero cloud storage solutions that you can use.

Yes, yes, you can rsync your files to your NAS. Now explain that to your non tech-savvy neighbors.