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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from December 2019</title>
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  10                 <title>When terms and policy turn users away</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Sat, 7 Dec 2019 21:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;When asked to accept terms of use and privacy policies that state
  15 it will to remove rights I otherwise had or accept unreasonable terms
  16 undermining my privacy, I choose away the service.  I simply do not
  17 have the conscience to accept terms I have no indention of upholding.
  18 But how are the system and service providers to know how many people
  19 they scared away?  Normally I just quietly walk away.  But today, I
  20 tried a new approach.  I sent the following email (removing the
  21 specifics, as I am not out to take the specific service in question)
  22 to the service provider I decided to not use, to at least give them
  23 one data point on how many users are unhappy with their terms:&lt;/p&gt;
  24
  25 &lt;blockquote&gt;
  26 From: Petter Reinholdtsen
  27 &lt;br&gt;Subject: When terms of use turn users away
  28 &lt;br&gt;To: [contact@some.site]
  29 &lt;br&gt;Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:30:56 +0100
  30
  31 &lt;p&gt;Dear [Site Owner],&lt;/p&gt;
  32
  33 &lt;p&gt;I was eager to test the system, as it seemed like a fun and
  34 interesting application of [some] technology, but after reading the
  35 terms of use and privacy policy on &amp;lt;URL:
  36 https://www.[some.site]/terms-of-use &amp;gt; and &amp;lt;URL:
  37 https://www.[some.site]/privacy-policy &amp;gt; I want you to know that I
  38 decided to turn away.  There were several provisions in the terms and
  39 policy turning me off, but the final term that convinced me was being
  40 asked to sign away my right to reverse engineer.&lt;/p&gt;
  41
  42 &lt;p&gt;--
  43 &lt;br&gt;Happy hacking
  44 &lt;br&gt;Petter Reinholdtsen&lt;/p&gt;
  45 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  46
  47 &lt;p&gt;I do not expect much to come out of it, but sharing it here in case
  48 others want to give something similar a try too.  If companies
  49 discover their terms scare away enough people, perhaps they will be
  50 improved...&lt;/p&gt;
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