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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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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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Reading every policy an average user agrees to in a year would take 76 work days, per Carnegie Mellon's foundational reading-cost study. See how long terms of service actually are, who reads them, and what reading level they require.
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