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They say the video stays on your device. I have no reason to doubt them, but how would I make sure?



hi, I'm the developer of this!

The game does need to download a model[1] to do the face tracking, and right now that does happen after you enable your webcam[2]. but once that model is downloaded the game runs fine with wifi disabled

alternatively the code is open-source (and linked on the page), so if you really wanted to you could check it out and then build it yourself: https://github.com/nolenroyalty/paccam

[1] it uses mediapipe, an easy way to do face tracking in the browser https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/guide

[2] it's a reasonable heavy download, didn't really want to put it on page load, although in retrospect it'd have given me a much more satisfactory response here!


You can disable your Internet connection after the game has loaded.


Remember to also check for data in localStorage, IndexedDB and so on. Service Workers can upload saved data after you closed the tab: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Background_...

Not that I doubt OP in any way, just in case you really want to be sure :)


Good call! I was gonna specifically say "close the tab before reconnecting" but totally forgot about SWs.


Not use it at all. Outside of manually reviewing the code running in your browser, or a few other totally overkill measures, that’s the only real way to be certain.


You should be able to capture network activity to actually verify.




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