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I was wondering the same thing. I checked my email, and over the past month I've received an email about policy changes from:
Discord
Anthropic (Claude)
Nintendo
YouTube
Meta
Airbnb
Microsoft
I don't think it can be just a coincidence. At least a couple of them specifically mention the UK’s Online Safety Act so maybe that's the reason?
I think this is the most likely culprit for the very recent uptick im noticing and trying to articulate with this post.
I wish ToS;dr (Terms of Service; Didn't Read) had a changelog for when companies made changes.
My bank is doing that
https://opentermsarchive.org/en/
Coverage is not super good, though. It's open to contributions of services and content selectors.
I think you’re just noticing now. This continually happens as companies get sued for harming people, and they adjust to not get sued.
TOS are always updated due to lawsuits, since companies always try to grab the maximum profit irrespective of the human cost, until people sue them. That’s always been the case.
e: sometimes products are straight-up pulled from the market for killing people. Look up videos of old products that are illegal now, like uranium in child’s chemistry sets or lawn darts.
uranium in child’s chemistry sets or lawn darts.
Yeah, i always make sure to get my kids the lawn darts WITHOUT uranium.
Without?? Back in my days, we walked 15 miles for uranium lawn darts. In the snow. Without shoes. Both ways!
Checks headquarter location of various tech companies "USA"
Checks recent events in the US
Click on 2024 Presidential Election
Oh... Oooohhh 👀
My first thought lol
Yah, it's corporations consolidating power and paving the way for AI getting all up in your ass.
Over the next several years a lot of tech companies are going to be restructuring everything based around AI and other new technological ideas none of us asked for.
Nintendo says it's because of recent changes in EU law regarding generated data and the closure of the EU's online dispute resolution platform. Ianal.
Amazon emailed me to let me know my prime invite (I’m not the prime Prime member) is being cancelled next month, so I have to get my own prime account. And then Spotify emailed about their greedy-ass decision to copycat Netflix and restrict account sharing between different locations.
Timing sucks for me because my health insurance plan is tripling and the state took away my cell phone allowance.
Thanks, Trump!
Best opportunity to cancel Amazon Prime
Yoho yoho!
Gotta keep adding binding arbitration to every ToS. Every single one.
Yeah cuz of age verification laws and AI... even VINTED changed its TOS in favour of AI
A lot of them have been adding terms about LLMs and using your data for them.
Yes, it's because of enshittification. Companies need to change their TOS to allow them to ~~exploit you more~~ monetise their core assets.
I noticed discord and google doing it. Didn't think much of it but maybe you are onto something
Might have something to do with a bunch of countries wanting to start implementing age verification standards.
I felt this way a few months ago. So many emails.
I started noticing around when OpenAI did their chat got debut
The EU and the US FTC have been throwing out suits lately. It's affecting corporate marketing, so everyone is rushing to adapt before the dust is settled.
