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I got tired of clicking "I Agree" without reading anything. So I fixed it.

via Dev.toRubayet Hassan

Honestly? I've never read a Terms of Service in my life. Neither have you. Neither has anyone. So I spent a weekend building SkipTheTerms — a Chrome extension that reads them for you and gives back 5–7 bullet points in plain English. Brutally honest. Zero legalese. Done in under 3 seconds. What you actually get Click the extension on any ToS page and you see something like: • They can delete your account whenever they feel like it • Your uploaded content is basically theirs now • "Trusted partners" means they're selling your data to everyone • You've waived your right to sue them as a group • Prices change without warning That's it. No 47-page PDF. No lawyers needed. How I built it The extension grabs the page text and sends it to a FastAPI backend. The backend checks a Supabase cache first — if the URL's been seen before, it returns instantly. If not, it calls Groq's LLaMA 3.3 70B , stores the result, and sends it back. The whole thing costs basically nothing to run. Cache hits are fr

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