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by bomdo 1880 days ago
I would assume this falls under Severability [1]. In most cases, the button you click on literally says "I accept", which the corporate lawyer would interpret in a similar way to signing a contract in full.

In other words, if I click "send" on my resignation email to my employer, but later argue in court that I totally didn't mean to actually resign, but only to check if my email program works, I may have a challenging case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severability

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How do they know that I didn't patch the binary to replace "I accept" with "I reject"?