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Show HN: I built a one-click coin flip with no ads or tracking

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4 points nalife520 | 1 comments | 14 Dec 25 06:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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sleep678765 ◴[14 Dec 25 22:15 UTC] No.46267627[source]▶
I wonder at which point of time did the absence of ads and tracking become a great merit rather than a basic feature
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sleep678765 ◴[14 Dec 25 22:36 UTC] No.46267861[source]▶
The app itself is nice, by the way

Although I found that you can tamper with randomness by executing some JS in the console xd: `Math.random() = () => 1`

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1. nalife520 ◴[15 Dec 25 13:59 UTC] No.46274624[source]▶
That’s a good question, honestly.

I don’t think “no ads or tracking” should be a merit at all. It just ended up that way because this started as something I built for myself, and I never bothered adding anything beyond what was needed to make it work.

And yeah, you’re totally right about Math.random(). I didn’t think much about “randomness quality” when building it — it’s very much a naive implementation. If someone opens the console and tweaks it, that’s fair.

For me it was less about randomness being correct, and more about having something external that nudges me to start. At that point, the coin flip has already done its job.