What this site records

A pageview counter

Every page here loads one script, https://stats.dankdev.com/count.js. That is GoatCounter, an open-source pageview counter, running on a server the same person runs rather than on a service anyone else owns. There is no Google Analytics, no ad network, no social pixel and no other third-party embed on this site.

Just before that script, the page sets one line of configuration:

window.goatcounter = {path: function (p) { return location.host + p }}

All that does is put the host name in front of the recorded path, so a visit to this page is filed as dankgames.com/legal/privacy/ instead of /legal/privacy/. It is there because one counter collects several different sites and the paths would otherwise collide.

What a counted pageview holds

Per GoatCounter's own documentation, a pageview row is:

• the time, and the page path
• the referrer — the page you arrived from, if any
• browser name and version, and operating system
• screen width, and browser language
• a country, looked up from your IP address
• a random session string, so reloading a page is not counted as a new visitor

GoatCounter documents that it does not store your IP address, the full User-Agent header, or any tracker ID. The IP is used to look up the country and then dropped, and the session string is derived in memory from site + IP + user agent rather than written to the database.

The script sets no cookie, and stores nothing in your browser — no localStorage, no cache entry, nothing to clear afterwards. Nothing on this site depends on it either: block the script, or let the request to stats.dankdev.com fail, and every page still works exactly the same.

There is nothing else to collect

dankgames.com has no account, no login, no sign-up, no newsletter box, no comment form and no checkout. No page on it asks you for an email address or any other detail, so there is nothing of yours here to keep.

DEAD WEIGHT

DEAD WEIGHT runs at dankgames.com/deadweight/. The hub page states its limit plainly, and it is the same fact from the privacy side:

DEAD WEIGHT keeps your run in your own browser's storage and nowhere else. There is no account and no server behind it, so your progress does not follow you to another device, and clearing your site data clears it.

Your progress is therefore not something this site holds — it never leaves your device. Sharing a cleared level sends someone a link that carries your moves inside the link itself; there is no leaderboard to post to. The game has its own notice with more detail.

DANK CHESS is a different domain

DANK CHESS is at dankchess.com. It is a separate site and this page does not cover it or describe its behaviour — read it there.