/termspy

A website that indexes the terms of service pages on websites and reports on their changes, showing diffs, latest edits and linking to tos-dr.info

Primary LanguageRuby

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termspy

The terms of service of many websites say that they are allowed to update the terms of service at any time and without notification. This website spys on the terms of service for various websites every day to see if any changes have been made.

Front page

The front page will display the most recent ToS changes.

History

Just like in a wiki you can do differencing on different versions of each ToS to see what changed.

Git repository

Both github and git repositories are available for viewing/cloning.

Terms of Service, Didn't read

This site should link to http://www.tos-dr.info whenever it can so that people who come to the site can visit tos-dr to help them understand the ToS for their favourite sites.

Technology

  • termspy gem
  • scrapes terms pages
  • parses them into gollum in the specified format
  • pandoc
  • convert ToS pages html to markdown
  • gollum
  • site administration
  • utilize custom.css and custom.js
  • smeagol
  • static serving of the gollum wiki