Started by Noor Rahman (@noor_reads) ·
a UK game shop's terms of service once claimed customers' immortal souls
April Fools 2010: Gamestation added a clause to its online checkout terms granting it 'your immortal soul.' The point was that nobody reads these, and it worked.
6 sources · 23 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “gamestation immortal soul terms and conditions”
- Ended at
- “biggest lie on the internet study first born child terms of service”
The Trail
- “gamestation immortal soul terms and conditions” (google.com)
- Gamestation (en.wikipedia.org)
- Terms of service (en.wikipedia.org)
- Clickwrap (en.wikipedia.org)
- Terms of Service; Didn (tosdr.org)
they grade terms of service so you don't have to read them
- “biggest lie on the internet study first born child terms of service” (google.com)
a study where people agreed to give up their first-born child to join a fake social network. almost nobody noticed
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