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Chapter 10- Discussion Forum

Chapter 10- Discussion Forum

Q You've been on websites that have made you click through terms and conditions before you could go on. You have probably never read them and that's not surprising, there is almost no way the time it would take to read these documents would pay off, especially since it's not as though you can write back to the company and specifically negotiate terms you prefer. Should that count as agreement - if we all know that no one is reading the forms does it make sense to allow forms like that to be used? Would it make more sense to require companies to have separate screens for each major point of the contact summarized so briefly that people wouldn't be able to help seeing them?

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Apparently losing rights to data and legal recourse is not enough of a reason to inspect online contracts. In other words, when any design calls in people to consider their options, at least some of them does. In case the design pushes them irrespective of following a particular habit that particular years of click to agree has been installed, then they all do those instead. There lies a lot of click-to-agree contracts that might have given several people a chance to pause if these people already knew about them. Like for example, users do provide different kinds of web based services and the third parties are mostly found to design a service contract with about which there are people who must be knowing about but the uses may not be knowing about it.