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TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms
(arstechnica.com)
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It would depend on the jurisdiction obviously, but I believe most of those points are irrelevant.
As far as signing goes, I know that in my country (Sweden) a verbal agreement is legally just as good as a written signature - it's just harder to prove in court. Contract law typically recognizes the ability to agree electronically, and in EULAs the agreement is made by using the software. Again, YMMV by country. My original claim that they're typically illegal was about the actual terms of the agreement, which often conflict with written law. For example in the EU you have a right to reverse engineer products for the sake of interoperability, and no EULA can override that right.
In Sweden there's also a law to allow you to make personal backups of media and software, and you're permitted to give copies to your friends and family. In fact, there's a state-regulated "private copying levy" designed to compensate content owners for their monetary loss caused by this copying. Which really infuriates me considering the lengths they go to to prevent me from doing the copying that I'm paying them for the right to do.