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Looks like generic boilerplate ToS to me. It's still bad, but I think this is unintentional.

He's not talking about the contents of the ToS. Click the back button on the page, it takes you back here. You'd expect it to take you back to the homepage of the site. If you deeplink to that page then there's no way out other than editing the URL.

I'm pretty sure he does. “The terms of service prohibits deep linking” is a pretty unambiguous phrase, and it is prohibited indeed:

> Additionally, you agree not to, and will not assist, encourage, or enable others to: [...] Deep-link to any portion of the Services any purpose without our express written permission

The fact that the back link is broken on that very page adds yet another level of irony here though.

> The fact that the back link is broken on that very page adds yet another level of irony here though.

The original Privacy and Terms links do open in a new tab so the back button is broken on the website but works when deep linked.

No, they're just using history.back() on that button, not making a statement.

That's just being lazy on a /tos or /privacy page as most of us have done in our life.

Fix is on staging. Also updated terms to remove the bullet about deep linking, which should not have been included.

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