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Ask HN: Why am I getting so many ToS update emails?

by calrueb on 12/23/22, 6:05 AM with 10 comments

Today alone I have got emails from 6 different services informing me they updated their terms of service. Is this to get ready for new laws in 2023, or something else?
  • by nikanj on 12/23/22, 11:21 AM

    There’s usually some variant of ”You have two weeks to react”, and it’s a good bet most people won’t be reacting to emails too fast around christmas holidays
  • by bronikowski on 12/23/22, 9:36 AM

    I got many, too. Some of those came from Polish services, so I'm guessing it's both changes to the law but also a "new year, new ideas" type of changes. We like to start anew.
  • by solardev on 12/24/22, 6:34 PM

    It's a slow time for most non-retail businesses, and also a good time to sneak in user-hostile changes while users are busy with the holidays.
  • by unsupp0rted on 12/23/22, 9:33 AM

    Happens to me at the end of every year
  • by ngoilapites on 12/23/22, 6:28 AM

    And, do I have agency to guarantee that they are fair to me?
  • by autoexec on 12/23/22, 6:29 AM

    phishing?
  • by 0x008 on 12/23/22, 10:32 AM

    I hope some day we can use chatGPT to give us the tl;dr of TOS changes.