Bluesky is changing their ToS soon ... but you have to agree to their future ToS to use their website today. Which is kind of asinine (or sinister ... I don' t know yet). I put the old ToS into a differencing tool but it turns out that's borderline useless.
Because they have changed almost everything so significantly that a side-by-side comparison is useless. I can't find anything from DDG explaining what Bluesky is actually doing. If anyone has a summary somewhere, I'd appreciate it.
Their arbitration clause is noxious but they do specifically mention that it doesn't prevent you from bringing them to small claims court, waive any of your statutory rights, or criminal misconduct. The criminal misconduct paragraph is kind of silly in that they still benevolently offer the option for you to address it in arbitration.
Arbitration does not apply to claims that fraud, criminal misconduct, or gross negligence by Bluesky caused death or personal injury. Those matters may be brought in court or arbitration, at the claimant's choice, subject to these Terms.
Oh, yes, I'm sure people will be jumping at the opportunity to allow Bluesky to have the arbiter they're paying for handle those cases instead of bringing it to a real court which can mete out real consequences.
They did the same radical rephrase and reorganization with their new privacy policy. After I finish reading the new privacy policy, I have two more pairs of documents to read.
I'm mostly only reading the new documents because how #Bluesky is organizing this makes it exceedingly difficult to cogently see what has changed.
Even if the new terms, privacy policy, copyright policy, and community guidelines are all extremely reasonable ... making it difficult to see what has changed is anti-consumer behavior. In a less unjust world, #Bsky would face consequences for doing this.
I recommend you do not use the Bluesky web interface from a browser where you are doing much of anything else. Don't read news articles in it. Don't do your banking with it. Don't do shopping.
I know there are some browsers that enable per site sandboxing. I'm not sure how effective those are generally. That's probably the bare minimum amount of separation you want when using Bluesky.
Their privacy policy allows them to use a broad variety of tracking methods. Now, that's pretty normal as far as privacy policies go. But I also think you should use most sites in a browser with the settings set to wipe everything on exit. If you're changing tasks, you should close that browser.
That browser shouldn't be the official version of Chrome. I've found that it's "wipe on exit" settings are ineffective at clearing private data from your session.
I'm fully aware that this is very annoying.
"Do Not Track". Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. Please note that we currently do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers, as there is no consistent industry standard for compliance.
AKA "because not enough other companies are complying with DNT, we aren't either." This is such scummy behavior.
Lucky me. The copyright policy is a one-pager. Betcha just about anything the Community Guidelines aren't so brief.
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