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| title = Manage Your Preferences | | title = Manage Your Preferences | ||
| image = manage_your_preferences.png | | image = manage_your_preferences.png | ||
− | | titletext = Manage cookies related to essential site functions, such as keeping | + | | titletext = Manage cookies related to essential site functions, such as keeping Atrius and his sons imprisoned within the page. |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by a GENERAL DATA PROTECTION ROBOT. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
− | + | This comic is a play on the confusing cookie settings found on some websites. | |
− | + | The European {{w|General Data Protection Regulation}} and similar laws in other countries require websites to obtain consent from users for placing non-essential cookies on their computer, and to allow the user from opting out of them. Cookies are small data files saved in a web browser that can be used, for example, to recognize the user across different websites. Web advertising agencies often uses such methods to display more targeted ads. Note that the {{w|GDPR}} states that disapproval should be as easy to choose as rejection from the user: any website doing what is shown in the comic is thus not actually complying with the GDPR. | |
− | + | Since more targeted ads make more money, website operators have an interest in the user allowing tracking cookies. They will therefore make the button to allow them big, green and easy to click, while making the opt-out as difficult as legally possible. For example, it could be that the user has to opt out of every tracking cookie separately using "confusingly labeled toggle switches". Randall compares this to {{w|Myst}}, a 1990s puzzle video game. | |
− | + | On the other hand, it is not clear what exactly clicking the big "Allow all" button actually entails. So in Randall's mind clicking it is akin to "agreeing to whatever". | |
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+ | "Manage your preferences" is commonly used as a neutral title for the opt-in/opt-out dialog. | ||
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+ | "Atrius" in the title text may refer to Atrus, the main non-player character in the ''Myst'' series. In the first game these people were imprisoned within books. Pages needed to be collected to complete the books, and it was incredibly hard to find a single page, involving extensive laborious navigation and exploration, and the finding and solving of hidden puzzles. In the Myst mythos, the books open portals to other worlds, a little like web hyperlinks. | ||
+ | "Atreus" was a mythological king of Mycenae. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Cueball is sitting in an office chair at a desk in front of his laptop computer. A black zigzag line points to the screen, and above this is shown what is displayed on Cueball's screen. This is shown as a black rectangle, with a white box, with black frame, overlaid over the top of the black section, extending half way above it. The text in this white box is in gray font. Inside the black rectangle are two gray rectangles, with white borders and black text. A small rectangle at the top has | + | :[Cueball is sitting in an office chair at a desk in front of his laptop computer. A black zigzag line points to the screen, and above this is shown what is displayed on Cueball's screen. This is shown as a black rectangle, with a white box, with black frame, overlaid over the top of the black section, extending half way above it. The text in this white box is in gray font. Inside the black rectangle are two gray rectangles, with white borders and black text. A small rectangle at the top has only one line of text, and a large rectangle below has 6 lines of text.] |
+ | :Manage Your Preferences | ||
:Agree to whatever | :Agree to whatever | ||
:Transport me to an immersive Myst-like game where I click confusingly-labeled toggle switches, only some of which work, perhaps never to find my way back to the page I wanted. | :Transport me to an immersive Myst-like game where I click confusingly-labeled toggle switches, only some of which work, perhaps never to find my way back to the page I wanted. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||