stardreamed: Kanan: The Last Padawan (CalebDume)
stardreamed ([personal profile] stardreamed) wrote in [community profile] getting_started 2017-07-04 12:46 am (UTC)

What bothers me is that this new User Agreement is provided in Russian, with a translation provided in English that is “not a legally binding document. The original User Agreement, which is valid, is located at the following address: http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos-ru.bml” which, does not help unless you speak Russian and understand Russian legalese.

How they expect one to be able to consent to an agreement one cannot read is beyond me. :(

(Essentially, Russia is going to do whatever it wants with our data and that's it, is what I gather. The so-called agreement is for show.)

I did a quick search and found somebody wrote an easy work around so you can avoid personally agreeing to the TOS. (Not that it really changes anything... Maybe make you feel a little better.) It's a Chrome Extension that is able to bypass the pop-up because the code is enoforced client-side, not server-side, so it's easily deactivated in your browser. https://blog.kamens.us/2017/04/10/how-to-delete-your-livejournal-account/ As written, it gets you to the account status page so you can delete your account. It is easy enough to modify if you also need to claim your OpenID first or transfer your account.

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