To learn whether this works, the page records how it’s used. This is all of it.
What’s recorded
- Which games get picked, and whether by tapping or searching.
- Which cards were on screen and for roughly how long, how far down the list you scrolled, and how long you stayed on it.
- Show more, More games, the answer to “Show same-series games?”, the All, Solo and Co-op tabs, the “How this list was made” panel, Share, going back, and links to Steam with their place on the list.
- Where the visit came in, the source word on a link that carries one (such as linkedin), a rough window size, how quickly a list loaded, the last screen seen, and how many seconds after arriving each of these happened.
- When a screen says Not enough data yet, and the game and reason unless the address matched no game. That a search started, that a game image failed to load, and how many events were left out to keep a batch small.
- The date and time each batch arrives.
Searches
The text you type is never sent to Next Up. If it matches a game Next Up knows but has no list for, only that game’s number is recorded. If it matches nothing, only the fact that it matched nothing is recorded, with a rough length such as 4 to 6 characters.
Suggestions show a small image of each game, loaded straight from Steam’s image servers. So while you type, Steam sees which games’ images your browser asks for, though not the text itself.
The random ID
Your browser keeps a random ID for up to 6 months after your last visit, so repeat visits can be counted. It’s created when the first batch of this record goes out, which is your first action or the first time you leave or switch away from the page, whichever comes first. It’s stored in this browser, not in a cookie.
The ID is kept like this only in the US, Canada outside Quebec, Australia and New Zealand. Everywhere else, nothing is stored for it: the ID lasts only until you close or reload the tab, so a return visit counts as a new one. That’s decided from the location Cloudflare reports for your connection, so a VPN can change it. If it reports no country, or Canada with no region, nothing is stored either.
From your connection
The record keeps your country and region, device type, operating system and browser family, language, and the kind of site you came from. Your IP address, city and network aren’t stored, and this recording uses no cookies. Cloudflare may set a security cookie of its own.
Who else sees a visit
Cloudflare hosts the page and this data, and handles your connection like any web host. Store links and Steam searches go to Steam only if you click them, and Steam then sees that visit.
Game art loads straight from Steam’s image servers (shared.akamai.steamstatic.com and shared.fastly.steamstatic.com): on the first screen’s game tiles as soon as it opens, in search suggestions as you type, and on each list. So your browser contacts Steam for those images, and Steam sees that connection and which games’ images were asked for.
Google Analytics is blocked on this page by its security policy, but the rest of pmatta.design uses it.
AI-written lines
The “Why you’d like it” lines on cards were written by AI ahead of time and checked by a second AI pass. No AI runs while you browse.
How long it’s kept
Up to 13 months.
Turn counting off
Turning it off stops this browser sending anything and removes the ID. The choice is kept in this browser, so clearing site data turns counting back on, and so can a browser that clears such data by itself, as Safari can after 7 days without a visit. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, counting is already off, and the ID is removed. What was sent before you turned it off is kept for up to 13 months, like the rest.
To ask about any of this, write to privacy@pmatta.design.
