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Re:How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage by zbentley on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @08:23PM (#19559800)
> If the general public truly understood how much information they give up and how valuable that information is, people would begin to take these things more seriously.

No, we would not. We would keep skimming over the terms, keep ignoring the connotations. Just like we do now.

That's not great, but it's the userbase you (we) have to live with.

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Re:How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage by playdohscave on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:18PM (#19560270)
Thats exactly my point though - no one will ever read the terms. You shouldn't have to dig through x pages of legalese to know what you are agreeing to within an app.

All i'm saying is that if what you were agreeing to was made to be as apparent as it is easy to confirm we might see a shift in user behaviour.

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