Browser-based game at clickclickclick.click demonstrates online profiling techniques through 128 unlockable achievements tied to your behavior.
Key Takeaways
128 achievements are hidden and unlocked by interacting with the page, each revealing a profiling signal the site has captured.
The game uses a save URL mechanism to persist sessions across browsers, exposing how tracking state can follow users.
Core mechanic is a single clickable button; complexity emerges from what the site infers about you from how you click.
Hacker News Comment Review
Commenters were split between finding it creepy and finding it trivial – those unfamiliar with session replay tools were more unsettled; developers who build analytics were less surprised.
The game detects scripted automation: injecting 1000 programmatic clicks via the console triggers a “Bot” label, showing behavioral heuristics are active.
Notable Comments
@foxfired: Used session replay (mouse-movement recording) on his own startup, then caught a friend opening devtools in real time – visceral illustration of how invasive the tooling is.
@BudaDude: for loop of 1000 .click() calls flagged as bot immediately, confirming client-side behavioral fingerprinting is present.
