People that work in technology routinely skip the EULA, and those are the people that know better.
If those people don't read the fine-print, do you expect any average nontechnical person to read through the fine-print when they're just trying to install an app on their phone to make it easier to use than the web version?
This kind of crap is why I didn't sign-up for Facebook to start with. They might not be breaking the letter of the law, but to my view they appear to be fundamentally dishonest.
People all over the spectrum skip the EULA because they're usually:
1) Written in legalese 2) 967 pages long 3) In size 8 font 4) Changes almost monthly
AND
Exactly three sentences worth of information that are of any importance are buried so damn deep in the typical EULA, that it's akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
IMO, if they want it to be binding, they need to remove the important stuff from the jungle of bullshit they intentionally hide it in and let people know exactly what it is they're getting t
I had it for about 6 months in 2011, before tracking battery drain to it. I think it has probably improved since then, but I got used to checking facebook via the web page on my own terms, rather than getting spammed with notifications all day. Then I noticed them trying to push me back to the app, first by taking Messaging away from the mobile web interface, and more recently by popping up messages about my friends posting time-limited stories that you need the app to view. When they started that tactic,
These companies every piece of information about you that they can. That's their business model. How can anyone be surprised at things like this?
People that work in technology routinely skip the EULA, and those are the people that know better.
If those people don't read the fine-print, do you expect any average nontechnical person to read through the fine-print when they're just trying to install an app on their phone to make it easier to use than the web version?
This kind of crap is why I didn't sign-up for Facebook to start with. They might not be breaking the letter of the law, but to my view they appear to be fundamentally dishonest.
People all over the spectrum skip the EULA because they're usually:
1) Written in legalese
2) 967 pages long
3) In size 8 font
4) Changes almost monthly
AND
Exactly three sentences worth of information that are of any importance are buried so damn deep in the typical EULA, that it's akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
IMO, if they want it to be binding, they need to remove the important stuff from the jungle of bullshit they intentionally hide it in and let people know exactly what it is they're getting t
A "default opt-in" is known as an "opt-out" to everyone but shills (or marketing, more or less the same thing).