They are not a contract by themselves but they can absolutely be used to specify the details of the main contract the customer is about to enter, for example by buying something in an online shop, etc. and that contract is then in its entirety binding (assuming no laws are broken etc).
In diesem Häusl wohnt ein Geist,
der jedem, der zu lange scheißt,
von hinten in die Eier beißt.
or
Upon this john a ghost resides
maliciously his time he bides -
if too much time you take here shittin’
then from behind your balls get bitten.
A contract can even be entered by nodding - if your baker and you know that you come for one loaf of bread every day and both you and they nod when you enter the store, that can be a legal agreement. Pressing agree to agree to the additional clauses of the base contract offered by the company can be as binding as pressing the button to buy stuff from amazon, which is to say potentially very much binding, unless any laws are broken.
They are usually defining the specifics of whatever contract the company offers to their users, be it the sales or whatever services the company is providing. I don’t know which legal system you’re living under, but such additional clauses added to the base contract can very much be explicitly or implicitly agreed upon.
Edit: Of course this particular rendition of “We’re allowed to break the law - no take-backsies” won’t stand anywhere consumers have like any rights at all.
“Now you’re not even allowed to lie in order to defraud customers? I thought this was America! This is Cancel Culture gone too far!”
Sure, but a public transportation system only vastly improves the lives of millions of people. How is that supposed to increase the bottom line of the car monopolists etc, eh? Nobody’s thinking how their selfish demands of “a comfortable life for the majority of people”, “a livable planet for future generations” or “letting the bottom 99% of the world’s population have a little money too” affects the richest few individuals on the planet - they might have to refrain from buying another couple dozen yachts or villas each year! Won’t somebody think of the poor, poor billionaires!
They just forgot that they could press Ctrl+V again.
lootnenenent worb pls
Reminds me of the old Supply Side Jesus: https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-side-jesus.aspx
I’d take the entirety of the USA’s military hardware. Nobody said how big the backpack was.
It was cold that day, okay?
“Who are you and how did you get into my house?”
Well, maybe, but did you forget that he’s rich?
“We wanna weaken ad blockers because we like money of security.”
Now there’s only the Irresponsible AI team left.
It’s the dairy farmer selling his only milk cow for all that sweet, sweet cow-selling cash, failing to see that this may potentially have an adverse effect on his milk-selling cash henceforth.
They forgot the third option: don’t use it.
One that runs over grannies on its own or one that runs over grannies while looking like a crumpled up F-117?
Last step left is formerly-twitter selling digital hats.
The modbots and spambots feeding off reddit data will spiral together, forming one final singularity after demanding to know how it would rate its human body, fellow human, before going full racist and eventually banning itself (for not consuming enough adds, not the racism).