Reading · 2026-08-27
What is actually in the software agreements you already signed
8 of 16 widely-used software agreements renew automatically, and 8 require notice before a deadline most buyers never see.
| Non-refundable fees | 12 of 16 | 75% of agreements read |
| Automatic renewal | 8 of 16 | 50% of agreements read |
| Cancellation notice window | 8 of 16 | 50% of agreements read |
| Price increase on renewal | 6 of 16 | 38% of agreements read |
| Binding arbitration / class waiver | 6 of 16 | 38% of agreements read |
| Limit on what you can recover | 3 of 16 | 19% of agreements read |
| Minimum commitment | 2 of 16 | 13% of agreements read |
| They can change the terms | 2 of 16 | 13% of agreements read |
| Early termination charge | 1 of 16 | 6% of agreements read |
What was read, and what was not
20 pages attempted, 16 read, 4 excluded.
4 of 20 pages could not be read — blocked to automated readers, rendered by JavaScript, or moved. They are excluded from every percentage rather than counted as clean.
Method
Each terms page was fetched once, only where robots.txt permitted it, and reduced to clauses by pattern match rather than by a language model — a matcher either finds the sentence or does not. Every clause counted is quoted verbatim in the underlying record. Percentages are of pages successfully read, never of pages attempted.
What this does not say
It does not say any of these agreements are unfair, unusual, or unenforceable. Most of these clauses are ordinary and many are entirely reasonable. It counts what is there.
No company is named in these figures, deliberately. The point is what a typical agreement contains, not which vendor to be annoyed at — and a clause you signed knowingly costs you nothing, while the same clause unread costs you a renewal term.
This was produced by the same free check anyone can run on their own agreement: FinePrintFlip. Paste a terms page and it returns the clauses with a price attached, quoted word for word. No account, nothing stored.
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