Couchcade

Privacy

Last updated: November 2026

Couchcade is a static website: no accounts, no sign-up and no database of players. What you type stays on your device or goes to the other devices in your room.

What stays on your device

This is needed for the site to work and is never used for tracking. The web server receives the cookies with each request, like any site, but ignores them. Clearing this site’s data in your browser deletes all of it.

Playing together

Phones connect to the TV device-to-device over WebRTC. To find each other, the devices use the public PeerJS broker for the handshake only; it sees your IP address and a random connection id. Your name, colour, picks and game moves go only to the devices in your room.

Hosting and libraries

The site is delivered through Cloudflare, and two libraries (PeerJS and a QR code generator) come from the jsDelivr CDN. Like any web request, these services see your IP address and browser details.

Ads

On phones and computers, the game list and the results may show ads served by Google AdSense. There are no ads on TVs or inside the games. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar identifiers to show and measure ads and, where you allow it, to personalise them. See How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

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