[美洲] PayPal agreement is longer than Hamlet, while iTunes beats Macbeth

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To read, or not to read... the terms and conditions: PayPal agreement is longer than Hamlet, while iTunes beats Macbeth
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Which? slams websites for making users agree to small print up to 36,275 words long
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+ O( f+ H: v/ q0 K+ btvb now,tvbnow,bttvbA consumer watchdog has launched a scathing attack on websites which make users agree to terms and conditions that can be tens of thousands of words long.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb% v1 L7 l1 b5 m3 \% e# G

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7 L, N& r  U4 K3 t5.39.217.76Tough read: PayPal's terms and conditions stretched to 36,275 words - more than Shakespeare's classic Hamlet
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Leading website PayPal topped the chart by containing more words than Hamlet.
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! Y0 X/ M! {5 g! S) I# c公仔箱論壇The terms on Apple’s iTunes page is longer than Macbeth, according to the research.
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A spokesman for Which? said: ‘We think it’s unreasonable to ask people to read prohibitively long T&Cs before they agree to use a service.
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‘A slicker solution is needed, where websites flag up the most important parts of their T&Cs to consumers.’
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; f2 i+ _/ {; @% T& ~" _The worst culprit is PayPal, a secure payment system for internet users, which has a terms and conditions box containing a total of 36,275 words.
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6 F( o7 p0 N1 P# M8 D公仔箱論壇It includes around 9,200 words on its privacy policy and the rest split on its shipping services policy, billing agreement and terms of acceptable use.
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Tragedy: Some terms and conditions would take longer to read than Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Weighty tome: Apple's iTunes required users to wade through nearly 20,000 words
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A TOUGH READ: NUMBER OF WORDS IN T&CS* H& d+ @7 o' I2 i9 ~
Paypal: 36,275 公仔箱論壇- N2 k( F# Q3 @- _% L- p2 U
Hamlet: 30,066
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Macbeth: 18,110 0 M3 o4 z8 D6 \* X7 j
Windows Live: 14,714
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Facebook: 11,195 公仔箱論壇. \9 ?  c5 K9 W* b& n* L# @+ |5 i$ I
Google (inc Books/Chrome/Wallet): 10,640
) t7 g$ [. _6 |) c9 d! B- atvb now,tvbnow,bttvbApple iCloud: 10,724 5.39.217.76+ |; s8 }0 D9 \7 z
Amazon Kindle: 7,115
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Apple’s iTunes has a total of 19,972 words telling users what they can and can’t do while Macbeth runs to 18,100 in comparison, said Which?8 H3 j# o& R- B* Y, A. J3 Z: |: B) f$ X
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For those who also want to use Apple iCloud then there are another 10,724 words to read through.6 H$ D3 m2 v" B) e  ^
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And before signing up to Apple’s iOS operating system, users are expected to read a further T&C folder containing 13,366 words.8 n' r4 s( a2 p3 @& A
Others are not as bad but still have too many words to expect the average user to read them all, said Which?
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This includes Google which has 10,640 words in a new single policy and terms box which covers all its services including Chrome and Walet.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。: C2 W2 c( {: B% O5 V

0 K) `: @/ x1 y9 S6 o% x* D公仔箱論壇While using the Amazon website means reading 5,212 words of T&C, using the firm’s Kindle product requires ticking a box to say you’ve read 7,115 words of policy.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。: i$ M7 r' f& J0 W, k) Q

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