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Comment by jstanley | Hacker News Reader

I was initially put off by the webcam permission requirement, but the terms and conditions page says it's basically an art project and they don't send any data off (unless you explicitly accept it at the end) so I gave it a chance.

I'm glad I allowed webcam permission because it was an interesting, informative, and fun look at biometric tracking.

Apparently I'm "violently average" which is not a way I would previously have described myself. According to this site the most unusual thing about me is that I read the terms and conditions before ticking the "accept" box.

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Same, but I think people generally over-estimate how much different from average they are. (It's from the webcam's pov anyway) Usually I also don't like interactions with the webcam but this was interesting enough.

and now your face is linked to your ip in a db somewhere

I found that the most shocking. 96% of people who used this didn't read the conditions first.

It's skewed. I read the terms first, but then the website bugged so I had to reload. And then it said I haven't read the terms first. So....

Same, I had the wrong webcam plugged in and when I plugged the right one the website bugged so I had to reload. It said I didn't read the TOS but I did... oh well.

That's lower than I expected, tbh.

I didn't read them because I don't believe them anyway. If the website uses my camera, I'll just assume that everything is recorded and sent to advertisers and shady governments before I closed the tab. So I did not want continue with this one. It was after reading the comments here I decided to give it a go. Terms and conditions played not role.

> According to this site the most unusual thing about me is that I read the terms and conditions before ticking the "accept" box.

I’d put forward the hypothesis that people who read the terms, and who are therefore concerned about privacy, are also less likely to be willing to agree to submit the data at the end.

So you haven´t even tried without the "accept" box. It works the same, BTW.

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