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So many words to say "shift responsibility to the consumer".
No.
How about instead, we demand companies stop forcing people to sign pages and pages worth of bullshit "contracts" (not even going in to how many are legal or in any way enforceable) for every simple fucking interaction because they're so desperate to cover their own asses and protect every cent they've extracted from their minimum wage employees??
Fuck, I wish people would shift their fucking focus to where it belongs already... ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
You misunderstand my intent. Stopping companies from making people sign giant excessive contracts is entirely my point; nobody is going to want to use your app if it takes forever to even install it because of all the legal stuff they'd have to agree to, things they're already agreeing to, but not knowing about. My thinking is that it would force companies to only make contracts where actually necessary and as short as possible. How does this shift responsibility to the consumer? They are, after all, not usually the ones creating the contracts.
You underestimate
A. how little some people care about their privacy and how much bullshit they'd put up with to access whatever content it is they're trying to get to (consider that most people don't even use an adblock) but more importantly,
B. the endless greed and lack of fucks companies have to give. They clearly don't give a shit about what they're doing being legal, making the consumer wait longer doesn't mean they'd actually read it nor understand, you easily just scroll your phone a few seconds before you click continue, and having to provide video is a really ridiculous breach of privacy as well as massive data mine, the companies would lap it up, all at our expense, how is it not shifting responsibility to the consumer?
The solution is simple - stop companies from being allowed to write these convoluted pseudo legal walls of text that basically free them of as much responsibility as they can get away with, to allow access to services, especially things like free fucking fries which aren't free at all, they exist to get your data, offering them more is not the answer.