The short version: Fakeout doesn't have accounts, doesn't run ads or analytics, and doesn't set cookies. Almost everything about you as a player — your handle, your match history, your settings, your cosmetics — lives only in your browser's local storage on your own device. Nothing here is legal boilerplate copied from another site; it describes what the code actually does today.
No accounts, no server-side profile
Playing Fakeout doesn't require creating an account. When you set a handle, it's saved to your browser, not to a server we run. Your match history, level progress, unlocked cosmetics, key bindings and any replays you save are all stored the same way — as data in your browser's local storage. Clear your browser data, or open the game in a different browser or device, and none of it follows you, because we never had a copy.
The game server sees your connection, and forgets it
When you play an online match, your browser opens a WebSocket connection to our game server. The server keeps a count of how many connections are open from each IP address — purely in memory, purely to stop one connection from opening far more sockets than a real player needs — and that count is discarded the moment your connection closes. It is never written to a database or a log file, and it's never linked to a handle or a match history.
No ads, no analytics, no cookies
Fakeout doesn't run any advertising network, analytics script, or tracking pixel of any kind, and it doesn't set cookies. There's nothing following you around the site or reporting your visit anywhere.
Who hosts what
The site itself (fakeout.gg) is hosted on Vercel. The live game server (game.fakeout.gg) is hosted on Railway. Both are infrastructure processors — they run the servers this game needs — and neither receives anything from us beyond what's described above.
This will change when accounts launch
Fakeout is built so that real online accounts can be added later without changing how the game plays. When that happens — letting you keep progress across devices, for instance — this policy will change to describe exactly what gets stored on a server and why, and we'll say so plainly rather than quietly updating the fine print.
Questions
Reach us at hello@fakeout.gg, or see the contact page.