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Every single ToS is written to benefit the company, and when necessary, harm the consumer. The answer is to enter into as few service contracts as possible. Use open source software. Control when your software updates. Really, never use the cloud version of anything whatsoever except where unavoidable. (eg: email and such)

They feel like the legal equivalent of Calvin Ball. So long as you just stash it in a ToS, you can apply any stupid rule your lawyers can imagine.

> The answer is to enter into as few service contracts as possible

Even the idea that TOS qualifies as accepting a contract makes a farce of the entire concept of contract law.

Right? A “contract” that only one party needs to abide by is not a contract… it’s an abusive relationship.
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If the company violates their ToS, you can take them to court (or arbitration).

It is bi-directionally enforced contract, just not a symmetrically beneficial one.

Ok that's no way to build a functional society, though. Humans are certainly not the entities in this conflict with the time or resources to go to court.
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>If the company violates their ToS, you can take them to court (or arbitration).

This is my favorite...how exactly can I monitor compliance? No evidence of non-compliance - get tossed out of court. No court order for discovery - no ability to monitor/gather evidence compliance.

The idea that this is even a potential for mutuallity on a TOS is just farcical.

The benefit is the product. If the TOS is onerous, you can not use the product.
What happens when Ford updates the ToS on my vehicle (via an OTA update) and I cannot see the backup camera until I "accept"?

(Insert about 1000 other examples of very awkward ToS updates)

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Good luck with that, buddy. Let's see what kind of shithole society you build with this sort of worldview
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> Every single ToS is written to benefit the company, and when necessary, harm the consumer.

If only more people actually understood that.

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>The answer is to enter into as few service contracts as possible.

Any contract where the other party performs so little seeking of my agreement (none at all really) that no representative talks to me in person or even electronically in an individual capacity, where no one witnesses me put my mark on the paper or hears by verbal assent, is in fact no contract at all. Despite what the courts may say. Should they say otherwise, they're wholly illegitimate.

That any of you have let something else stand as the norm is bizarre and alarming. Contracts require explicit, sought agreement, by their very definition. Nothing can be implied. If their business model relies on implicit agreement because anything else would be too difficult, then they simply shouldn't be allowed to remain in business.

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