Why am I getting so many ToS update emails?

Question

Today alone I have got emails from 6 different services informing me they updated their terms of service. Is this to get ready for new laws in 2023, or something else?

nikanj · Accepted Answer

There&rsquo;s usually some variant of &rdquo;You have two weeks to react&rdquo;, and it&rsquo;s a good bet most people won&rsquo;t be reacting to emails too fast around christmas holidays

bronikowski · Answer

I got many, too. Some of those came from Polish services, so I'm guessing it's both changes to the law but also a "new year, new ideas" type of changes. We like to start anew.

solardev · Answer

It's a slow time for most non-retail businesses, and also a good time to sneak in user-hostile changes while users are busy with the holidays.

unsupp0rted · Answer

Happens to me at the end of every year

ngoilapites · Answer

And, do I have agency to guarantee that they are fair to me?

autoexec · Answer

phishing?

0x008 · Answer

I hope some day we can use chatGPT to give us the tl;dr of TOS changes.