Updating cookie banner clicker with new levels, leaderboard support and a new design
Hi everyone,
Recently, I decided to give Cookie Banner Clicker a new lick of paint and add more than 3 levels to the game, as well as actually adding the long overdue leaderboard system.
Cookie banner clicker was inspired by the state of the web after the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR). After this, a whole host of companies either straight up blocked EU and UK users from visiting their sites, or using dark patterns and excessive lists of opt outs that no reasonable person would bother to complete in order to decision fatigue people into just accepting cookies to get on with their day.
Funnily, while taking its name from the classic game cookie clicker, it doesn’t have the same game mechanics even remotely.
I’ve also added a bunch more dark patterns that you see on the modern web to make it feel more authentic.
The site uses no actual dark patterns bar for the gameplay and funnily enough is also free of cookies (bar one random player identifier for identifying and updating your score on the leaderboard).
Adding a leaderboard of course comes with quirks - I’ve had to add a moderation system before they display to make sure that people don’t start inputting bad names and or submitting impossible scores.
Anyhow, please give it a shot here and let me know what you think.
Hopefully you get a laugh out of it but it does get quite infuriating on later levels so watch out!
Have a great day,
~ CA
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