Click Click Click

What it is

Click Click Click is a white page with one green button and a small log in the corner that narrates everything you do. Click the button and the log notes that the subject clicked the button. Move your mouse and it notes where you went. Sit still and it notes that too. It is described by its makers as a game about online profiling, and it plays like being watched by a very polite scientist.

How to play

Click the button. Then keep going: move around, idle, come back to it. The log fills with observations, some about your behavior and some about your machine, and the tab title changes as you go. An achievements panel counts what you have triggered, 128 in total, each a question mark until you earn it. There is a share button, a colophon, and a save link in the address bar you can copy to continue in another browser.

What makes it different

Nothing happens unless you do it, and everything you do is recorded and read back to you. That is the whole point: a web page can see far more of you than a button suggests, and this one tells you exactly what it sees, in the third person, with a straight face. The achievements turn it into a game of provoking the observer, and the observer is very hard to surprise. The specific observations are the payoff, so we will not list them.

Why it is on Bored

Useless on the surface, with a point about privacy buried underneath that lands harder than a lecture would. It needs nothing installed, shows no ads and asks for no consent, which is funny given the subject.

Tips

• Do the obvious things first, then try to think of something it will not expect
• Give it a few idle minutes too
• Copy the save link if you want to keep your achievements
• Share it with someone and compare what it noticed

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