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Re: What is the status of free/adfree/loginfree basic AI apps/programs/URLs on our devices?

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From Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject Re: What is the status of free/adfree/loginfree basic AI apps/programs/URLs on our devices?
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On 09/04/2025 12:51, Java Jive wrote:
> On 2025-04-09 08:12, Jeff Layman wrote:
>>
>> On 08/04/2025 23:16, Marion wrote:
>>>
>>> Note that Grok does not appear to meet our divine requirements though of
>>> being free, adfree and not requiring a login/password mothership account.
>>
>> Its "Terms and Conditions" and "Privacy Policy" together come to around
>> 11,000 words. That's probably about average these days. :-(
>>
>> Does anyone with no commercial interest actually read these?
> 
> An example of what Shoshana Zuboff in her book "The Age Of Surveillance
> Capitalism" called an 'uncontract'  -  an online 'contract' whose terms
> were made so complex that no-one would ever read them.

If anyone succeeded in reading through one of these uncontracts they 
should award themselves this:
<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monty-Python-Official-Gumby-T-shirt/dp/B07VB9Y2S9>

-- 
Jeff

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What is the status of free/adfree/loginfree basic AI apps/programs/URLs on our devices? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-08 20:35 +0000
  Re: What is the status of free/adfree/loginfree basic AI apps/programs/URLs on our devices? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-08 22:16 +0000
    Re: What is the status of free/adfree/loginfree basic AI apps/programs/URLs on our devices? Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-09 08:12 +0100
      Re: What is the status of free/adfree/loginfree basic AI apps/programs/URLs on our devices? Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-04-09 12:51 +0100
        Re: What is the status of free/adfree/loginfree basic AI apps/programs/URLs on our devices? Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-09 13:51 +0100
  Re: What is the status of free/adfree/loginfree basic AI apps/programs/URLs on our devices? "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-04-09 08:40 -0400

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