Definition: The artful burial of soul-crushing concessions within walls of indecipherable legalese, designed to be skipped like a stone across a pond. You skim, click “agree,” and trade your firstborn’s selfies for imaginary convenience.
Suddenly, your vacation video hawks VPNs to millions. Congrats! You donated content royalties for the “privilege” of using an app. That loophole letting them sell your cat’s meme face? Nestled snugly between paragraph 7 and “we own you.”
Example:
Skimming the dense terms, I clicked “agree,” unknowingly trading my vacation photos’ rights for free cloud storage access.
Buried in paragraph 12 of the streaming app’s legalese was a loophole letting them monetize my uploaded videos without compensation.