[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# k# [# j2 R- |# n

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Watchdog lists the worst culprits and calls for changes5.39.217.764 R; |/ S1 {, m; }( ~( X- h' ^# j0 s

3 j3 f4 Y' _6 fBy Tom Gardner
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2 ?+ @# a0 W% WTVBNOW 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。A 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.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。" X# a6 c& n8 ~1 D% \
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Which? said it was 'unreasonable' to expect people to wade through pages of legal jargon, then tick a box to say they have read and understood the small print.
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It has produced a list of the worse offending sites - where T&Cs, as they are known, are longer than some of Shakespeare's classics.
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1 F8 j; W6 `2 |6 aTVBNOW 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。Tough 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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3 P  A' A8 ?% o! F* r; i' \5.39.217.76The terms on Apple’s iTunes page is longer than Macbeth, according to the research.公仔箱論壇7 E& P" d9 ~+ }: B- ~, T4 y

& l# u' s9 y: P5.39.217.76A 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.’5.39.217.76; k+ ?6 I7 g# h7 W# \* }
Amazon, Google, Facebook and Windows also have enough words to fill a small novel yet expect them to be read as part of their contract with the customer.公仔箱論壇. q- W: O+ Q8 W& _8 u
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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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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.公仔箱論壇' U) K% o0 w/ b* n& @; c) X  e

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Feat of endurance: Reading every word of PayPal's terms and conditions would require considerable staminaTVBNOW 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。# V) U5 a" L- g# B

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Tragedy: Some terms and conditions would take longer to read than Shakespeare's Hamlet
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" l4 E( x) U: @! G6 [! J4 n/ F公仔箱論壇Weighty tome: Apple's iTunes required users to wade through nearly 20,000 words
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Paypal: 36,275 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。4 p. K; e) X6 C7 L; W3 z4 e5 r
Hamlet: 30,066
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Macbeth: 18,110
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! E0 M8 K/ c% r, h. a" ]  btvb now,tvbnow,bttvbApple iOS 5: 13,366
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Apple iCloud: 10,724
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Amazon.co.uk: 5,212 公仔箱論壇- {7 _* l" s; L0 A
Twitter: 4,445
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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?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。! C5 m2 `1 C: j- p$ ]

3 C6 m# F3 t4 u/ {7 A. q' ~; qFor those who also want to use Apple iCloud then there are another 10,724 words to read through.公仔箱論壇, D/ f+ T' b6 E( M% N1 j! S
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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." f& A1 _. f! g. X5 O) ?
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.
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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.
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