Editing Talk:2432: Manage Your Preferences
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:''Often things need to be changed inside a browser to view certain websites correctly or safely: clearing or changing or disabling some cookies, changing scripts settings, installing and correctly configuring a plugin for an overlay network, running or configuring a proxy, enabling experimental features, restarting the browser with special flags passed, installing a fork of the browser such as with the tor browser bundle to access onion sites or the beaker browser to access dat sites, or installing and configuring a secondary gateway app such as with freenet, ipfs, or i2p.'' | :''Often things need to be changed inside a browser to view certain websites correctly or safely: clearing or changing or disabling some cookies, changing scripts settings, installing and correctly configuring a plugin for an overlay network, running or configuring a proxy, enabling experimental features, restarting the browser with special flags passed, installing a fork of the browser such as with the tor browser bundle to access onion sites or the beaker browser to access dat sites, or installing and configuring a secondary gateway app such as with freenet, ipfs, or i2p.'' | ||
β | Why do we need this doorstopper of a sentence taking up three quarters of the first paragraph alone? Relatedly, why is there so much discussion about cookies in the following paragraphs? | + | Why do we need this doorstopper of a sentence taking up three quarters of the first paragraph alone? |
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+ | Relatedly, why is there so much discussion about cookies in the following paragraphs? I get it, the author knows a lot about cookies and cookie-related concepts. I don't think that means the explanation needs to explain what a cookie is, or what resulted in them being invented, or the current legal regulations governing them; the comic itself doesn't even mention cookies! (And that's just ''one of many things'' that could be governed by "website preferences" - are we going to give the history of tor browser bundles too?) | ||
Meanwhile, if anyone comes to this explanation to find out what Myst is, all they'll learn (if they manage to wade through two and a half dense paragraphs of mostly technical jargon) is that it's some sort of puzzle game. The current explanation doesn't do anything to convey what makes Myst stand out as a uniquely apt analogy. ([[2008: Irony Definition|Ironically,]] the explanation here seems to be manifesting the very phenomenon that Randall parodies in the comic!) | Meanwhile, if anyone comes to this explanation to find out what Myst is, all they'll learn (if they manage to wade through two and a half dense paragraphs of mostly technical jargon) is that it's some sort of puzzle game. The current explanation doesn't do anything to convey what makes Myst stand out as a uniquely apt analogy. ([[2008: Irony Definition|Ironically,]] the explanation here seems to be manifesting the very phenomenon that Randall parodies in the comic!) | ||
β | I'm not trying to rag on the (no doubt very knowledgeable and well-intended) person or people who wrote the explanation originally. But I feel like it's in need of someone who knows how to trim the fat, focus on what's relevant, and make it concise enough to communicate effectively. (Given how long my Discussion post here turned out to be, I'm probably not up to the job [[541: TED Talk|;) )]] | + | I'm not trying to rag on the (no doubt very knowledgeable and well-intended) person or people who wrote the explanation originally. But I feel like it's in need of someone who knows how to trim the fat, focus on what's relevant, and make it concise enough to communicate effectively. (Given how long my Discussion post here turned out to be, I'm probably not up to the job [[541: TED Talk|;))]] |
MeZimm [[Special:Contributions/172.69.170.56|172.69.170.56]] 20:07, 4 March 2021 (UTC) | MeZimm [[Special:Contributions/172.69.170.56|172.69.170.56]] 20:07, 4 March 2021 (UTC) | ||