Looking for the worst EULA

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Apr 25, 20081 min

Nonsensical EULAs sometimes show up in the unlikeliest of places.

This time it’s on Dilbert.com, as one Gripe Line reader reports, and the Terms of Service state that one must be 13 to use the site and anyone under 18 needs their parents to complete the registration and supervise.

“Well, maybe it makes sense if you’re 13 and living where the age of majority is 12. Otherwise your parents would have to help you, and they would need to be 13 as well, I guess, which seems a little improbable,” Ed Foster writes in Terms of ridicule.

And that’s just the beginning. The EULA goes on to include exploiting submissions, a damage liability of $10, and no-disparaging-us terms.

“Want to defend Dilbert’s honor?” Foster asks. “OK, then help us find a ToS or EULA that’s even worse.”