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Posted by andrewzeno 10 hours ago

Click (2016)(clickclickclick.click)
290 points | 70 commentspage 2
maxverse 9 hours ago|
I enjoyed playing with this. Wild how much it knows.
michaelevensen 1 hour ago||
Roel and Luna?!
herpdyderp 9 hours ago||
Looks like it got HN’d to death
hspeiser 9 hours ago||
thats pretty creepy. I find it unnerving that they know exactly where my cursor is.
LeoPanthera 8 hours ago||
You might like Pointer Pointer. It's pretty funny. https://pointerpointer.com

(It might not work on touch screens.)

ProAm 9 hours ago|||
So does every advertiser and data broker in the world
rolph 9 hours ago|||
would be creepiest if your cursor moved somewhere related to what you were saying outloud.

the capability is there, your local hardware determines how seamless it would be.

nomel 7 hours ago||
I made something related to this with whisper. It would just constantly listen and periodically do a search to find a picture/video/gif from the web, relevant to what you're talking about, and show it.
_carbyau_ 8 hours ago|||
And yet, so many people think Cursor-camp[0] is great.

Mental framing of a tech is weird.

[0]https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/

slopinthebag 9 hours ago||
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raincole 8 hours ago|||
HN comments really can't beat the spectrum stereotypes...

But seriously, the parent comment isn't saying the technical fact a browser can see your cursor's coordinate is unnerving. They're saying the experience of being reminded of this fact is unnerving.

Technically, every time you take a bus ride the driver can just decide to crash the vehicle and kill the passengers and himself. This fact itself isn't unnerving -- it's just how buses work. But if there were a poster on the bus reminding passengers of that, that'd be quite unnerving.

sneak 9 hours ago|||
This demonstrates a surprising lack of empathy.

It’s unnerving because people don’t like being watched.

slopinthebag 8 hours ago||
People aren't being watched...
nihapmrm 2 hours ago||
It’s making me feel like I’m being tracked 24/7 :)
10000truths 9 hours ago||
I'm getting a PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR when I try to open the page in Firefox on Linux.
alexwwang 3 hours ago||
what does it make for?
Sophira 8 hours ago|
I'm guessing this is supposed to illustrate how tracking is ubiquitous, given what I see in the source code.

In my case, though, after carefully enabling only scripts from the site and the Cloudflare CDN, but not enabling XHR/websockets back to the source page, or any cookies, the only thing that happens for me is:

1. I see a button and an exhortation to click the button.

2. I click the button.

3. The site goes "Subject has clicked the button."

4. The site goes "...".

...and then nothing else happens, no matter where I click or move my mouse. In the background I can see attempted websocket connections, but I'm blocking those so they can't happen.

If the aim of the game is to open people's eyes to the dangers of online tracking, it feels like there should be a reward mechanism if such tracking is blocked!

jagged-chisel 8 hours ago|
I unlocked at least one "achievement" by blocking camera access.
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