wordleSMS VS Frontpage

OK, so to be fair, this Wordle! app is older than Josh Wardle's game. It used to be a completely different game like Wordscapes, and then when Josh Wardle's Wordle took off, hundreds of thousands of people downloaded Wordle! by mistake. Wordle!'s developer cashed in on this and sold his game to AppLovin, which turned the older Wordle! into a Wordle knock-off. The entire mobile app economy is flooded with knock-offs to the point where it's hard to find originals. Heck, Wordle itself is a Lingo knock-off. However, Josh Wardle created Wordle and named it after himself, then sold it to the New York Times. NYT Wordle is the one and only official Wordle, and for now, it doesn't have any ads or any mobile apps.

Original game: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

yup. it's /u/powerlanguage who organized most of /r/thebutton. The original wordle URL was also https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

GOOGLE, you've known me for years, when I type in P and O and then Enter you know damn well i'm not trying to go to https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

I think I found the source of the issue! I looked at this post and checked on how I opened wordle every day on my phone. I realized, that I always type wordle in the search bar and click on the first suggestion Safari gives me. I think the issue is, that Safari does not suggest the plain wordle URL (https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html) but the one, that was generated when NY Times transferred the game from the original domain (https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/) to theirs. It looks something like this and was generated to be able to transfer the stats from the old page to the new NY Times page:

Source: All possible 'solution' words are stored directly in the Wordle website's JavaScript.

omg where have you been

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Terms of service are generally pretty shitty, yes. But this is egregiously shitty.

https://tosdr.org/ is a good site to compare. Any service over Grade E (Spotify, Facebook, the usual suspects) is (very likely to be) less bad. DeviantArt for example is a D, and doesn't include waiving your moral rights among some of the other overreach.

Some service terms are actually quite good (DuckDuckGo, Mullvad, off the top of my head). Though these aren't content sharing platforms so it's not really as fair of a comparison.

This is super useful https://tosdr.org/

> Meaningful consent is becoming increasingly difficult for consumers; for instance ...

https://tosdr.org is good for that, why don't Mozilla just contribute to an existing project

I can't give you a complete guide here, but I recommend you go to privacy subreddits or watch relevant Youtube videos for more info. I also recommend sites like privacytools.io and privacyguides.org They contain lists of alternatives and tools. Also check out tosdr.org which contains summaries of the TOS of a ton of sites. Also try email aliases like simplelogin or anonaddy. Use burner emails for throwaways if possible emailnator.com or tempail.com . Try to use as many open-source applications as possible. You can even self-host certain things.

I think what you're looking for is TOSDR (Terms of Service, Didn't Read): https://tosdr.org

It's been going for several years and has very thorough analysis of various ToS, done by volunteers who are often legal professionals.