Cookie banners are ubiquitous, popping up every time we visit a website. Most of the time, we are annoyed and dismiss them quickly. However, we should be aware that these are often intended to deceive us, making us agree unwillingly so website operators can collect our data.
 
To highlight the overwhelming flood of cookie banners and the nearly endless approaches to deceptive design, we developed an arcade game to test individual knowledge toward consenting online. Like classic 8-bit arcade games, each player has three lives. If players incorrectly agree to one of the many cookie banners in the game, they lose a life—it’s not easy and quite tough. Nevertheless, many LNDW visitors, especially children, took on the challenge, with one visitor even breaking the record of around 13 seconds, while the average game time was about 12 minutes :)