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Cake day: June 9th, 2025
  • I find such agreements very troubling, because it gives up public funded dispute resolution for private which nearly unanimously benefits larger entities

    For starters, check if that term is valid in your country’s legislation. Where I am for example, no contract with a foreign entity can legally retract your rights of legal representation, so any ToS you agree to that have this clause would be automatically considered invalid and you can happily eg.: start a class action lawsuit (with other users in your country).

    (tbf, in my country ToS are not even considered legal contracts in the first place so we’re somewhat better than that, but still I do get that other countries are ~*Worse*~)

  • Open is not the same as patent-free, the two things can coexist (and they do in the case of webp).

    It’s open to write the code, but in order to be authorized to use it you have to get a permit from Google. You can’t eg.: fork from Firefox and use their permit (as you implicitly could with patent-free). Plus, Google can rescind their patent grant at any point, which they are bound to do once they secure ownership of the internet.