14 Aug, 2011 | Author: Imre | Filed under:
Last friday I was driving home from Ghent from the weekly Krimson Krew meeting, Android Premium Navigation suddenly popped a question I couldn't escape. I was doing about 135 km/h, which is just 5 above the speed limits on some parts of the route, when it asked me to verify and update my license, read the terms of agreement, fill in my credit card credentials in order to continue navigating. The fact I had to deal with this 'nagging popup' while driving affirmed my opinion on the agreeing to online Terms of Use's:
Clicking "yes" on *any* terms of use to 99% of the people means: "Don't show me this again", nothing more. I am distancing myself from any online agreement and won't recognize it as such. As do most people.
Who actually reads the intentionally misty, deviously booby trapped pieces of crap, that are presented in a way you have to click them in order to 'get to your goods'. Noone does. The "I agree" has devaluated to a mere "Don't show me this again in the future" without taking much notice.
Then there's the plain out ordacity from the likes of Facebook, Apple and everyone else to change or alter the terms, after you agreed to them, sometimes just days later. It reminds me of Darth Vader who was "altering the deal" with Lando Calrissian over the release the frozen in carbonite Han Solo, of course to his benefit, not Han's.
I will see through Route66's and Android's usability fail of disrupting my use of their product while driving, with a rotated 'popup' (my Android is attached to my windscreen in landscape mode). I really should not be operating this scenario while driving. That happened in actuality was that exactly 30 days of the Route66 powered "Premium Navigation" had passed. As satnav software contains disclaimers about operating-while-driving (rightly so, while dosed properly), I would suspect HTC to embed a detection routine 'sensing' to hold off based on my current speed. Little software is perfect.
I have read recent analysis on various terms of use that will genuinely put you off your rockers, and it included Facebook and Twitter. Some do try to hold a sense of moral value, but Facebook is actually pirating your privacy. FB takes complete ownership over the pictures you upload to FB, sells them to 3rd parties but take no liability of your picture ends up on a viagra add in South-East Asia or winds up on a Most Wanted list somewhere down below the equator. The people refraining from social networks over privacy issues understand the risks well and are wise to do so. Unfortunately almost every online product or services requires you to 'agree' with something.
To me, as for most people, the "agree" checkbox has become equivalent to "Close this popup. Don't show me again in the future". I wonder what will happen when some serious malice will lead to an all out lawsuit based on vague, misleading terms, accepting by some poor sucker among us.
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well yeh I agree. nobody reads the terms of use today! so they can be compared to ads!
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