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Either approach takes a certain amount of control away from the user — although in return they get their content hosted online. They will be outlined in the terms and conditions you sign up to when you register with a site and you should be notified of any changes — although often websites do this on-site, rather than by emailing individual users.

Initially, you will have to agree to a site's terms before you can upload content, but if a change is made you may be told that you will have to close your account if you do not agree to it.

A lot of people don't seem to. When Gamestation changed its terms one April Fool's day to tell customers that it was reserving the right to claim their souls, none of the 7, people who used the site that day seemed to notice. Purewal says consumers could be forgiven for not trawling through pages and pages of small print: "They are historically designed more for lawyers than consumers, so even if consumers do read them all, they are relatively unlikely to understand what rights they are giving away and what rights they are getting back".

As noted, it varies from site to site, and going through every site is too big a job even for theguardian. However, here are some key lines from the small print on some of the most popular sites — if you are already using them, you are subject to these terms. YouTube : You retain all of your ownership rights to and videos you upload, but when you use the site you grant a limited licence to YouTube and other users.

That licence is a "worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence with right to sub-licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that Content in connection with the provision of the Service and otherwise in connection with the provision of the Service and YouTube's business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service and derivative works thereof in any media formats and through any media channels".

They will also only be presented with the option when "it is likely that the creator would reply to the comment and when the model has a high chance of providing a sensible and specific response", YouTube said, so that it is not offering suggestions unnecessarily.

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