Comment 11 for bug 269656

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rawsausage (rawsausage) wrote :

I would like to point out that click-through EULAs are legally void in many countries, such as for instance Finland.

The point there is that the threshold to just click fast through is extremely low. Any legal agreements that were agreed by a party are void, unless if all parties understood at least approximately what they were going to agree about. In electronic context the other party (in this case, Mozilla) can not verify the level of understandment at all. There is not even the slightest guarantee that the other party even actually saw any of that legalese at all. In fact, acting as if the process is valid at this moment leads to Mozilla committing a felony of misleading on purpose (that is, if there is a significant demand for anything ever from their part).

The same in plain English: Nearly no one is going to read the text at all anyways, or even attempt.

Personally, I would take great pleasure taking them into court around here (if that ever was possible) and wiping the floor with them. That being impossible works the other way as well though. I can safely ignore anything Mozilla could ever demand from me. However, that is only one part of the issue. That REAL part of the issue is that such license popups are as bad usability as it ever comes. They obstruct the users from doing tasks for completing their real life tasks, which is a grave sin.