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jaredklewis on April 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Witho...

It may be disturbing, but it is entirely understandable that no one reads the EULA. If I read all the terms and policies for every piece of software and site I use, I would be doing that full time.

Companies have basically DoS attacked the public by attaching pages of legalese to anything and everything.

carlmr on April 13, 2019 [–]

>Companies have basically DoS attacked the public by attaching pages of legalese to anything and everything.

It's DDoS. You could read one EULA, but there are way too many, it's a distributed attack.

EForEndeavour on April 13, 2019 | [–]

A DDoS is by definition also a DoS, so the OP's statement stands just fine on its own.

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