ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

Post by jancborchardt » Sat, Aug 11, 2012, 11:29 AM UTC

milesskorpen wrote: post #6

Fantastic to have. It is really hard for companies to offer simply legal terms, since any simplification starts to undermine the actual detailed terms. Awesome to have this from a third party. I imagine this would be particularly valuable as a browser extension.

Post by jancborchardt » Sat, Aug 11, 2012, 11:31 AM UTC

baseh wrote: post #19

ajhai wrote: post #2

I have been thinking about doing something similar for quite sometime now. Specifically I wanted to build a browser extension that highlights only the important parts of agreement. And the important points will in turn be decided by the community of users with the system keeping track of different versions of agreements and data of interest in it.

This is a great idea. The extension can be something like DIIGO does - highlight parts of the agreements that are deemed important or critical to consumer + provide snapshots of the TOS/Privacy policy whenever there are changes.

Post by jancborchardt » Sat, Aug 11, 2012, 11:33 AM UTC

benatkin wrote: post #23

lhnz wrote: post #8

An API and chrome addon would be very nice. I wouldn't check the site, but I would like warnings when I accessed the registration page of a bad website.

I noticed that it's under the AGPL. That might be an issue for developing a Chrome plugin.

Post by kmfrk » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 10:58 PM UTC

Post by kemiller » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 11:04 PM UTC

jasonkester wrote: post #81

rhizome wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh please, do condescend to me about what sites I have run and which I have not, much less ones I have or have not written myself. Look, I (and likely many others here) know what you're talking about, and it's not necessary. You can deactivate things, sure, but you can also say "This cannot be undone," and people will know what that means . Software has commonly operated this way for almost the entire GUI era (at lea…

No condescension intended. Sorry if it came across that way. I can only throw in my experience, which is that users of the sites I run have a history of not understanding what it means when they hit the delete button, regardless of how many warnings you give them. As I said, it's a trade off. The upside for the site owner is less headache and angry users. The downside, at least in my experience, is nothing (apart fro…