Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by manjushri 2995 days ago
>Very few people ever read "Terms & Conditions" and that's a problem.

People don't read them because they can't read them.

>read: look at and comprehend the meaning of (written or printed matter) by mentally interpreting the characters or symbols of which it is composed.

Terms & Conditions are deliberately obfuscated by lawyers and encrypted in legalese. Decrypting these documents into plain english for the average users would go a long ways to breaking the Pavlovian conditioning of checking a Terms and Conditions checkbox for "free" apps.