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Reading a full terms of service and privacy policy bundle takes about 136 minutes on average, per the Biggest Lie on the Internet project's 2019 word-count analysis. See per-document reading times, skim-versus-read data, and a company-by-company comparison.
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92% of Fortune 500 companies have a website Terms of Use page in place, according to Greenberg Traurig's 2023 audit of major corporate websites. See how that compares to arbitration clauses, cookie banners, and how often online shoppers actually encounter a terms and conditions page before checkout.
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A practical guide to writing a privacy policy for a Squarespace site: form blocks, Acuity Scheduling, Squarespace's built-in analytics, and Commerce checkout data.
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Only 9% of Americans read a terms of service agreement all the way through before accepting it, and 91% accept without reading, according to Deloitte's 2017 Global Mobile Consumer Survey of 2,000 US adults. See the breakdown by age, reading frequency, and how it compares to privacy policy reading rates.
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27% of US adults manually customize their cookie settings rather than accepting or rejecting everything, per a 2025 Pollfish survey commissioned by All About Cookies. See how the split breaks down, whether it actually stops tracking, and which browsers change the default for you.
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Websites set a median of 9 cookies per page load, per HTTP Archive's 2025 Web Almanac crawl of the top 1 million sites, while ShieldPage's March 2026 analysis of 5,000 sites puts the mean at 23 cookies before consent. See the industry breakdown, first-party versus third-party split, and consent-timing data for 2026.
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