Microsoft AdCenter’s 316-page Terms of Service
I signed up for Microsoft AdCenter, and got an interesting presentation of terms and condititions:
The terms and conditions are exactly 2,840 words long. At 9 words each, that’s 316 pages. There’s no way to resize the TOS div and, yes, the whole form is abnormally wide.
Between the above problems and the problems in the rest of the signup, I have to guess they failed to test in Firefox. I can see why Microsoft might not want to, but 30% of surfers use Firefox, and it’s a far higher percentage higher for the web professionals who are going to be using this service.
It does get worse: when I go to sign in I type my username and password, click “Sign In”, and am presented with the sign in form with my username and no password or errors. It just silently fails to log me in. I’m not too optimistic about their support, they can’t even keep the url to it from breaking across two lines in the “Welcome to AdCenter” mail.
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