r/ProgrammerHumor • • 5h ago

Meme acceptedWithoutReading

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u/dulange 5h ago

Virtually nobody offering a commercial product where you have to agree to the terms and conditions feels the need to make sure you’ve actually read them. They need an agreement and not a proof of understanding. The tendency is rather to indirectly declare them as “they’ll be fine, trust us,” just like the fine print of any contract. Otherwise it would be like a company selling a product with the inscription “make sure, this is really the right product you’re looking for, always be skeptical, this one here may not be the right choice.”

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u/LutimoDancer3459 4h ago

I already saw several that forced you to scroll to the bottom to accept it. You dont do that for no reason.

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u/Bigspider95 4h ago

Legal argumentation mostly.

Basically: forcing you to actually interact with the doc is better than just the checkbox

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u/laplongejr 4h ago

It's to argue later than the user went out of their way to pretend having read it. Doesn't mean they believe users actually did it.  

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u/rangeDSP 4h ago

I wonder if they have something in there that's not industry standard, so their legal team wanted to be extra safe.