Ask HN: Why am I getting so many ToS update emails?

26 points by calrueb 3 years ago | 10 comments

Today alone I have got emails from 6 different services informing me they updated their terms of service. Is this to get ready for new laws in 2023, or something else?

nikanj 3 years ago |

There’s usually some variant of ”You have two weeks to react”, and it’s a good bet most people won’t be reacting to emails too fast around christmas holidays

bronikowski 3 years ago |

I got many, too. Some of those came from Polish services, so I'm guessing it's both changes to the law but also a "new year, new ideas" type of changes. We like to start anew.

solardev 3 years ago |

It's a slow time for most non-retail businesses, and also a good time to sneak in user-hostile changes while users are busy with the holidays.

unsupp0rted 3 years ago |

Happens to me at the end of every year

ngoilapites 3 years ago |

And, do I have agency to guarantee that they are fair to me?

anthropodie 3 years ago | |

Nope.

Let's get as many users as possible and once they are hooked let's update ToS is the general approach it seems.

autoexec 3 years ago |

phishing?

0x008 3 years ago |

I hope some day we can use chatGPT to give us the tl;dr of TOS changes.

willcipriano 3 years ago | |

I'd like courts to find that giving someone a long contract online is responsible for you understanding it and if the bulk of users are confused to meaning of it, the parts that are confusing aren't legally binding.

ThePowerOfFuet 3 years ago | |

https://www.tosdr.org/