ToS;DR

“Terms of Service; Didn’t Read” (short: ToS;DR) is a young project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”: almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.

Background

The project was started by Hugo Roy, Michiel de Jong, Jan-Christoph Borchardt, and others. The project is a community effort to create a transparent and peer-reviewed process to rate and analyze Terms of Service and Privacy Policies in order to create a rating from Class A (very good) to Class E (very bad)

I joined the ToS;DR Team in late 2022 and have been working on several aspects of the project as the lead client developer since then, including:

• The Android App
• The iOS App
• The Browser Extension

Meaning

What does “ToS;DR” mean? the name is inspired by internet acronym TL;DR which stands for “Too Long; Didn’t Read” and is often used on blogs and emails when a block of text is just really long and that people are too lazy to read the whole stuff. It was intended more as a code name than as a real name. But it seems that people like it (do you?)