My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT
Isn&#x27;t much of the legal stuff just a way to cover their tails?<p>For example, the bit about owning content. Do they really want your content? Is content on the internet worth anything these days? If your content is worth something, it&#x27;s likely the Google ranking which gives it value rather than the content itself.<p>I imagine that&#x27;s just an attempt to keep people from suing over reproducing content to go over the pipes.<p>PEDRAGOSA V. GOOGLE SPAIN, S.L. - Google got sued for reproducing content in various ways in search results. The case went in Google&#x27;s favor but the legal costs for this sort of thing is probably a killer for services which don&#x27;t have that GOOG ticker symbol.<p>The &quot;no competition&quot; bit seems like it&#x27;s meant to keep people from using IFTTT developer tools as part of their own competing service.<p>Why bother reading the legal stuff? It likely won&#x27;t ever come up to affect you. There is some risk, but the opportunity cost of taking the time to go through it is probably greater. I imagine most of the world population doesn&#x27;t have the comprehension ability to understand what they are reading anyways. You might as well just stop using the internet rather than trying to make sense of the legal stuff.