Opening screen of the documentary.
Sample page of some of the documentary's content.
"Do You Want A Cookie?" is a web documentary I created for an Interactive Documentary course in 2024. This project was built using HTML, CSS, and Javascript and took about 8 weeks through the process of ideation, concept development, research, and web design & development.
Browsing the web these days often involves battling through excessive pop-ups, advertisements, and notifications. To cut through the noise as quickly as possible and get to the content we seek, clicking “accept” to whatever privacy notice is blocking our way is often the most painless course of action. But hidden behind the large, bright button asking us to agree and move on, are privacy policies that we never read. I think we as consumers of the web often shrug off things like “compromised passwords” notifications and the weird ads we get after talking about a product, but even if our data isn’t always used in harmful ways, we should know and understand the ways our browsing data can be used.
Through the lens of internet cookies, “Do You Want a Cookie?” seeks to create an informational and investigative response to current conversations around data privacy on the web. It uses the form of an interactive web documentary to engage users and encourage their participation. The information documented is available widely and any privacy policy would be able to include more specific detail, but this format is something that users are able to digest and interact with.
Information sources are cited throughout the documentary. The link at the top of the page directs you to the live web-doc page.
