[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 MacbethTVBNOW 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。- O. C. O- U! V/ p+ m' k
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Which? slams websites for making users agree to small print up to 36,275 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。6 l$ ]5 c: {5 Y+ j
Watchdog lists the worst culprits and calls for changes
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  Y! E% h& t5 lBy Tom Gardner
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2 J$ S& o: ]( ]5.39.217.76A 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.
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& L" {/ ~2 q  U: V公仔箱論壇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.2 _" D5 L( K% X; c
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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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb( m& a- y2 o3 R  H- N6 z7 r2 v
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: W" p; X6 P& P$ u" c# ]; M1 ~; x. NTough read: PayPal's terms and conditions stretched to 36,275 words - more than Shakespeare's classic Hamlettvb now,tvbnow,bttvb. P$ a2 a/ G+ V# z

4 V) M* L9 H" X5.39.217.76Leading website PayPal topped the chart by containing more words than Hamlet. 5.39.217.763 R$ |) x! c) g, G. X. P  a) B
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The terms on Apple’s iTunes page is longer than Macbeth, according to the research.5.39.217.76/ [0 B' K) |4 t7 e" z! g2 @
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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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9 h/ s, Y' o0 P6 J, Itvb now,tvbnow,bttvbAmazon, 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.
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8 S/ v5 c( J+ x4 a公仔箱論壇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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb2 Y% m2 F# I  X0 p# z% G

$ W/ T3 G5 X, D8 o2 t( s5.39.217.76It 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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Hamlet has 30,066 words including the famous To Be Or Not To Be soliloquy and the moving ‘goodnight sweet prince’ speech at the end.5.39.217.76) e% g/ k1 r/ \

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Feat of endurance: Reading every word of PayPal's terms and conditions would require considerable staminatvb now,tvbnow,bttvb0 b1 z; s: p5 o: E' {3 |- O& m

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/ k7 M6 L0 O8 ^5 ~% Y公仔箱論壇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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Paypal: 36,275
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Macbeth: 18,110
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Facebook: 11,195
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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?
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9 O) W1 N7 Y0 L6 b  {And before signing up to Apple’s iOS operating system, users are expected to read a further T&C folder containing 13,366 words.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。' \8 y' M% f- x* H/ ]6 z% a
Others are not as bad but still have too many words to expect the average user to read them all, 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。6 p. M* w# h. P5 ~' e( s
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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.公仔箱論壇" S# |" H5 c& l9 W
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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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