Terms of Service; Didn’t Read for Firefox

Terms of Service; Didn’t Read for Firefox represents the effort of a whole community to improve the way the website and services are providing the terms of service. Of course, nobody has the time or mood to go over a thousand words thrown around into a ToS composition. Besides, the heavy language used in most situations has the effect of putting off the reader, thus forcing users to agree on unacceptable terms.

Using this Firefox add-on will simplify the ways the ToS is presented and showcased. You can now instantly verify if a ToS clause violates your intimacy, leaks your data, or modify your account without permission. How so? Well, the add-on simply translates and compresses text, and asses the risk by using rating and color coding.

A team focused on making ToS clear to all, actively works to improve how we see the contract between us and whatever service. This tedious process requires a lot of hours to fulfill, that's why one can still find unrated sites. However, the most popular and used services are already covered, so you'll instantly know how risky, intrusive or safe they are.

The site rating is initially done by using letters. If a website scores an A, it means that is the safest and most honest site around. As for an E rating, simply stay away from that mess. What remains in between is B, C, and D, and these rating results from having all kind of terms that vary, from hurting the user to protecting them.

Because not anyone understands or toward the corporate talk forced into most ToS, taking the time to rephrase them is what this community does, making all points more accessible to any user. A summary of the terms can be reviewed by collapsing the add-on's menu. Clicking any entry will send you to the community's page, showcasing the original line, its status, how many changes were made, and the name of the author.

Given these points, Terms of Service; Didn’t Read for Firefox is a neat tool that brings forth whatever a shady ToS hides. Rating a website and reducing the size of a ToS by translation is what you'll get from using this extension, including the feeling of serenity due to not having to agree with something pushed from behind by ominous walls of text.