Comment by ButlerianJihad

Terms of Service and other legalese are notorious for being deliberately difficult to print, copy/paste, or manipulate in any way.

If you click through them, you will often notice that they are squeezed into the most inconvenient popups, modal dialogs, and other interstitial windows that are abused for this purpose. They are also insufferably long-winded.

I often try to capture the text of these so-called "legal agreements". I try to shove them into a "Print to PDF" but that fails. So I try to copy-paste them into Google Keep, but that also fails, because Keep has a limit. So then I try to cram them into Google Docs. And it often takes about 15 sweeps with copy/paste and scroll scroll scroll, in order to meaningfully transfer all the content into Docs.

It may come in handy later; for example they will often include some contact information for their privacy or legal department, and sometimes there are opt-out instructions nestled near the end of the Terms of Service. They may also document the steps of a grievance process. If you, as a customer, do not follow their steps for filing a grievance and pursue it according to their policy, they have no obligation to help you. So, if you are a serious user of any service, or it means serious money to you, I encourage you to paste or print those legal Terms by any means necessary.

Of course, they will invariably change the Terms on a whim and with the slightest notice to you, and the game begins all over again. Strange game. Perhaps the smartest move is not to play?