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In Brazil, my native country, it's illegal to use confusing terminology and/or small font in contracts and advertisements, as a mechanism to protect consumers against tricks to convince them to buy a product or service without fully understanding the conditions.

Unfortunately, not all countries provide the same level of protection to their consumers, meaning that sites like Mouse Print are never short of stories "exposing the strings and catches buried in the fine print” of all sorts of offers and agreements, like the insistent advertisements of "free trials" for teeth whiteners that actually sign up the consumer to automatic shipments and monthly bills only disclosed in fine print.