“I have read and agree to the Terms”

Just found this site. Could be of interest to many users here: Terms of Service; Didn't Read.

Here's their ToS;DR summaries of:

Youtube.

Facebook.

Google.

DuckDuckGo.

You can see why I have been using DuckDuckGo exclusively for a couple of years now.

which comes down to

"We collect your data
We sell your data
Anything you post/upload belongs to us and we can sell/do what we want
We can kick you off at any time for any reason
You also can't sue us"

It would be nice to hire some lawyers to go through those and see exactly what terms are legal and what isn't depending on the country.

It's what Snoople and Tracebook do instead of paying taxes.

I wonder when it will come down to blocking all IP's of theirs and seeing if they will sweat it out or not... (All in-country ISP's given a list of IP's to just block, and removing the name from the DNS..)

Nice and informative find! I'm most interested in youtube:

I doubt a lot of this would stand up in court. Considering that there are laws against waiving rights like the ability to sue for compensation, I'm sure this is a house of (credit)cards legally.

Considering that the copyright to an original work (ie video, music or whatever else) is with the creator by default and that all youtube creators still have the rights over their works, I doubt youtube itself even believes their ''anything you upload is ours'' clauses.

With the wording already like this, I'd say it wouldn't be too paranoid to think that the big media sharing sites do dream of one day taking full and proper ownership of everything uploaded to their platforms. For now, its just a knife dangling over our heads and we can hope that competing sites slowly become relevant enough so that it becomes even less of a possibility.

But imagine that, in a world where you have to be on the internet to be noticed, every place where you can host your work wants ownership of it.

When Youtube began hiding some videos behind an age-restriction wall, the solution was to create a youtube account, stating your date of birth. I thought that was data sucking bull crap, but I put up with it, until recently. They changed the rules again. Now they require photo-ID. F*ck that sh*t!

google is the worst after twitter and tiktok
hope the ducky will conquer at least google search and your soul belongs to us i would do that , just elect me emperor of EU and this will happen photo id?:O in the uk?
are they authorities now?
Your country sounds more and more tyrannical each year


last month it didnt need that here

If you just want to see the videos, there's youtube-dl.

Thanks, but I'm not prepared to go to much effort just to unlock videos on YouTube that are usually available elsewhere without ID or registration. They are trying to exploit a monopoly, and that's bad for everyone. The harder they make it / the more ads they serve, the less attractive the platform is, the more users will seek out alternatives, and hopefully, the platform will disappear up its own bottom.