Always clicking on the ‘I agree ‘ button on website ‘Terms and Conditions’ boxes without reading them first

Like when you’re downloading or installing new software programmes, yes. They never appear till you’re on the home strait and to bother with them just delays the process which has already gone on long enough. This is ‘Never reading the small print’ ( Tracey String, Amersham ) all over again .  That and its aural equivalent which you hear on radio commercials when they say things like ‘subject to proof of age ’  and rattle off  details of APR and phone-call charge rates very very fast. Nobody expects you to read ‘Terms and Conditions’ them let alone understand them which is why they are always very long and written in legalese – not that you’d know because you never read them. Otherwise they would be asking you to agree to something much simpler such as ‘ Anything beneficial or profitable about this product is ours ; anything which goes wrong  – well,  that’s your problem.’  Let’s say you did read them and toothcomb every clause – well, how sad is that?  All they’re saying is ‘Don’t mess with us – the law’s on our side’ . No, you have to take them on trust and hope that you’re not agreeing to anything involving surrendering your firstborn or unpleasantness with baseball bats or tying you into a lifetime’s subscription to Weird  Magazine .  Technically speaking they could get you to agree to anything’ And here’s something else :  when you started reading this posting and visualised the ‘ I Agree’ button on your computer screen –   it was blue, wasn’t it. Why would that be?  

(Dave Parsley,Minhead) - QQQQQ