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Are You Being Charged More Than Everyone Else?

Season 6 Episode 15

If you want to participate in modern society, you probably have to click "I agree" at least a dozen times a month, and the idea that any of us would or could actually read all the Terms and Conditions is ludicrous. If you actually read the terms, you'll find that you don't actually "own" the thing you "buy"… you're just getting a license–or permission to use it–in certain, limited ways.

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