Comment on This Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad TargetingparentComments−rogerbinns13yYou don't "need" a game. The point of the game is fun while screwing with people trying to profile you, but poisoning their data instead.There is a precedent with barcode games of collecting things http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_barcode_gamesRandomly exchanging cookies with other users (assuming they are even structured that way) is a considerably larger coding challenge than just examining cookies and giving an arbitrary score.
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You don't "need" a game. The point of the game is fun while screwing with people trying to profile you, but poisoning their data instead.
There is a precedent with barcode games of collecting things http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_barcode_games
Randomly exchanging cookies with other users (assuming they are even structured that way) is a considerably larger coding challenge than just examining cookies and giving an arbitrary score.