Tumblr Terms and Privacy Policy diff (opens in new tab)

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39 pointshugoroy12y ago16 comments

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willvarfar12y ago· 3 in thread

Is there a tl;dr of the shocking changes we should all be complaining about?

I don't know why this was a link to tosdr rather than Tumblr's own diffs. I am not even certain whether to trust it as the content doesn't seem to be the same as Tumblr's. (That, or maybe I am myself simply confused.) Regardless, here was a "shocking change".

https://github.com/tumblr/policy/compare/2cfe3c8668...adfff3...

steveklabnik12y ago

It's in the official one: http://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/community

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adrianonantua12y ago

Upvoted, not be cause of the tl;dr request, but for the "shocking changes we should all be complaining about". It made me laugh and then think about the peculiar nature of this community.

Torgo12y ago· 2 in thread

If you're younger than 13, don't use Tumblr.

-Ask your parents for an Xbox or try books.

+Ask your parents for a Playstation 4, or try books.

Playstation 4 confirmed next-gen console winner by Yahoo. Is that good or bad?

duaneb12y ago

I wonder how many 13 year olds will read that....

Drexl12y ago

I'd wager less than 10.

bentoner12y ago· 1 in thread

Here are some clearer diffs:

cordite12y ago

Wow, that was amazing to look at! Much easier than a github diff of HTML.

zachrose12y ago· 1 in thread

It's hard to tell which of these changes are minor legal optimizations, and which are actually suggestive of a different relationship between Tumblr and its users.

In the top paragraph, for instance, "personal" is struck from the phrase: "takes the private nature of your personal information very seriously." Are they taking _more_ of my information seriously or are they subtly suggesting that my information is no longer "personal"?

It'd be nice to see a finer-grained diff.

zachrose12y ago

Oh:

+ Don't do things that would cause confusion between you or your blog and a + person or company, like registering a deliberately confusing URL. Don't + impersonate anyone. While you're free to ridicule, parody, or marvel at the + alien beauty of Benedict Cumberbatch, you can't pretend to actually be + Benedict Cumberbatch.

Sambdala12y ago

-<p> If you are a registered user, you can access and delete most information associated with your Account
+<p> If you are a registered user, you can access most information associated with your Account

evan_12y ago

You can get rid of the irrelevant white-space changes by adding ?w=1 to the URL:

https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/commit/957775e52dad75012db...

yeukhon12y ago

The first line of diff tells me how serious they took grammar into account...

From Tumblr, Inc. ("Tumblr", "we", "us", or "our") to Tumblr, Inc. ("Tumblr," "we," "us," or "our")

dec0dedab0de12y ago

Out of context: "Tumblr may determine your location by using drone technology and live video feeds"

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