How the site works as of October 26, 2026
This page describes what happens when you use fearn.fun today. If any of it changes, I will change this page and the date above it.
Where a game remembers anything, a rating, a best score, a streak or a bankroll, it is stored by your own browser, on your own device. It is never sent to me or to anyone else, and I cannot see it. Most games have a button that clears what they keep. Atlas does not have one yet, and a few things stay on purpose, like your best stars in Safe Water; the paragraphs below say which. To clear anything a game keeps, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
The front page reads what those games saved, so it can show you today's scores and how many of them you have played. It reads them where they already are, in your own browser, and sends nothing anywhere. Pico, the toucan at the top of the front page, reads the same saves and your town in Bahía Tucán, so he can say one line about where you are. He keeps nothing of his own. The front page keeps one thing of its own, the number of days in a row you have played something, and there is a Clear my run on the front page that removes it. Until 29 September it also kept your answer to the round at the top of the page. That round has gone, but if you played it, your last answer may still be in your browser, and clearing this site's data in your browser's settings removes it. Everything else the front page shows belongs to a game, so a game's own reset is what clears it.
Bahía Tucán keeps your town in your browser, and your fastest finish. None of it is sent anywhere. Starting a new town replaces the town, and your fastest finish stays until you clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
The Reef keeps your season, your logbook, your daily scores and your sound setting in your browser, including small copies of your best photo of each creature. None of it is sent anywhere, and Reset scores on the Reef's menu clears all of it except the sound setting. Snorkel Cove, which is now part of The Reef, may also have left a list of the creatures you photographed in the cove. To clear that, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
Safe Water keeps your port, your best stars in each port, your logbook of things found on the seabed and your results in Today's harbour in your browser. None of it is sent anywhere. Starting a new port replaces the port, and your best stars, the logbook and the daily results stay until you clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
Morning Catch keeps your game and your sound setting in your browser. None of it is sent anywhere, and Start a new game in the pause menu replaces the game.
Lighthouse keeps your stars for each night and your sound setting in your browser. None of it is sent anywhere. To clear it, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
Lights On keeps your best result for each day's port and your sound setting in your browser. None of it is sent anywhere, and Clear my scores on the game's first screen removes your results but not the sound setting.
Trade Winds keeps your best voyage of the day, with its stars, what it earned and how many days it took, and a note that you have seen its short tour, in your browser. None of it is sent anywhere. The next day's best voyage replaces it, and the note about the tour stays until you clear this site's data in your browser's settings. In a season, it also keeps the season you are playing, with its voyages, the freight aboard and your bank, your best season's bank with how many voyages it lasted and the day it began, and a note that you have seen the season's tour. None of that is sent anywhere either. A new season replaces the one you were playing, and a better season replaces your best one.
Diesel to Light, the walk through a small power plant, keeps one thing in your browser: whether you chose Manual or Auto. None of it is sent anywhere. To clear it, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
Lake to Light, the walk through a small hydro power plant, keeps one thing in your browser: whether you chose Manual or Auto. None of it is sent anywhere. To clear it, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
Tank of Air, the walk through a dive with one tank of air, keeps one thing in your browser: whether you chose Manual or Auto. None of it is sent anywhere. To clear it, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
Heat from the Cold, the walk through a heat pump on a winter day, keeps one thing in your browser: whether you chose Manual or Auto. None of it is sent anywhere. To clear it, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
Coral Trout, the walk through a coral trout spawning site, keeps one thing in your browser: whether you chose Manual or Auto. None of it is sent anywhere. To clear it, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
Measuring Board, the walk through five fish on a measuring board, keeps one thing in your browser: whether you chose Manual or Auto. None of it is sent anywhere. To clear it, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
Wooden Minehunter, the walk through a harbor with an old mine on the sea floor, keeps one thing in your browser: whether you chose Manual or Auto. None of it is sent anywhere. To clear it, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
The Quickest Course, the walk through two sailings to the Caribbean on a chart table, keeps one thing in your browser: whether you chose Manual or Auto. None of it is sent anywhere. To clear it, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
While a tab is open, your browser also keeps a short note of which games you have started in it. It never leaves your browser, and it is deleted when you close the tab.
When you tap Copy the day, your scores go to your clipboard so you can paste them wherever you like. Nothing is sent to me.
The site does not set any cookies. The one exception is a live camera in Atlas, and only once you press play on it: see below.
The site is hosted by Netlify. Like every web server, theirs records that a page was requested, along with the address your request came from and the time it arrived. That is how the web works everywhere. I do not use those logs to work out who anybody is.
The lettering comes from Google Fonts, so your browser fetches those files from Google and Google sees the request.
Atlas shows a view of the day's capital in a window that stands beside the globe. For most countries it is a photograph. The photographs come from Wikimedia Commons, where their photographers have published them under open licences, and your browser loads each one from Wikimedia's own servers, so Wikimedia sees that request. Each photograph is credited to its photographer.
For some capitals the view is a live camera that its owner streams publicly on YouTube. Until you press play, all your browser loads is the camera's still picture, from YouTube's image server; the video player itself is not loaded. When you press play, the camera plays in YouTube's own player in what YouTube calls privacy-enhanced mode. From that moment your browser is talking to YouTube, and YouTube may store information in your browser, as Google's privacy policy describes. YouTube says a video watched in this mode is not used to personalise your YouTube experience or the ads you see elsewhere. If you would rather not, simply do not press play: the rest of the game works the same.
Those three, Google Fonts, Wikimedia and YouTube, are the only places your browser loads anything from other than this site.
The form on the front page sends your address to Netlify, where I can see it. I use it to send you one message when a new game appears here, and for nothing else. Every message has an unsubscribe link that takes one click, and you can write to me at any time and ask me to delete your address.
The feedback box in each game sends your message to Netlify, where I can read it, together with the name of the game and your score or rating. Your email address goes with it only if you type one in, and I use it for nothing but replying to you. You can write to me at any time and ask me to delete a message.
The link at the bottom of the front page goes to Ko-fi. If you follow it, you are on their site and their terms apply there, not mine.
If you want your address removed, or you want to know what I hold, write to me at david@davidjfearn.com.