Was split between sharing here and ~comp, so feel free to move this if it feels more fitting there! I stumbled across this video today and found it pretty interesting. If you don't want to watch...
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Was split between sharing here and ~comp, so feel free to move this if it feels more fitting there!
I stumbled across this video today and found it pretty interesting. If you don't want to watch the video, it's about a website based on the Trolley Problem. You have three seconds to choose between saving your mother or an unfamiliar child. I recommend checking out the video just to see it in action, as it might be the most impactful implementation I've seen of it to date.
The tricky part is that once you choose, you can't choose again. Refreshing the page just brings up the message "There won't be a second time." While other sites and games have done the same (One Chance comes to mind), this one seemed to be particularly stubborn. Using different browsers or incognito mode, trying to change IP address, even use other devices on the same wifi, etc., you'd get the same message. The video's creator and some of the comments say it's likely checked Flash's history rather than your browser.
Which brings up the reason I didn't just link the site: this site operated through Flash. Since Flash is now defunct, the site isn't functional anymore, though the page is still online. Someone in the comments said they found an archived version on Flashpoint, but that it included a hacked version that could bypass the one-time limit. So, not exactly the same experience.
This just struck me as a neat little snapshot of a now-defunct part of the internet.
If changing your browser or IP didn't work, then that makes the next most logical sense . Most people probably didn't know about it, but Flash had its own local storage for internal history, save...
The video's creator and some of the comments say it's likely checked Flash's history rather than your browser.
If changing your browser or IP didn't work, then that makes the next most logical sense . Most people probably didn't know about it, but Flash had its own local storage for internal history, save files, preferences, etc. And using ActionScript you could even access individual computer identifiers (like the user's network card MAC address).
p.s. That site wasn't the only Flash app I know of that made use of the "only play once" premise. E.g. In You Only Live Once, if you died then you couldn't play it again without clearing your Flash cache files first.
Was split between sharing here and ~comp, so feel free to move this if it feels more fitting there!
I stumbled across this video today and found it pretty interesting. If you don't want to watch the video, it's about a website based on the Trolley Problem. You have three seconds to choose between saving your mother or an unfamiliar child. I recommend checking out the video just to see it in action, as it might be the most impactful implementation I've seen of it to date.
The tricky part is that once you choose, you can't choose again. Refreshing the page just brings up the message "There won't be a second time." While other sites and games have done the same (One Chance comes to mind), this one seemed to be particularly stubborn. Using different browsers or incognito mode, trying to change IP address, even use other devices on the same wifi, etc., you'd get the same message. The video's creator and some of the comments say it's likely checked Flash's history rather than your browser.
Which brings up the reason I didn't just link the site: this site operated through Flash. Since Flash is now defunct, the site isn't functional anymore, though the page is still online. Someone in the comments said they found an archived version on Flashpoint, but that it included a hacked version that could bypass the one-time limit. So, not exactly the same experience.
This just struck me as a neat little snapshot of a now-defunct part of the internet.
If changing your browser or IP didn't work, then that makes the next most logical sense . Most people probably didn't know about it, but Flash had its own local storage for internal history, save files, preferences, etc. And using ActionScript you could even access individual computer identifiers (like the user's network card MAC address).
p.s. That site wasn't the only Flash app I know of that made use of the "only play once" premise. E.g. In You Only Live Once, if you died then you couldn't play it again without clearing your Flash cache files first.