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Here in the UK I played a game on the CBeebies website with my daughter (age 7). It wanted her to sign up for an account with an email address and details so th

Here in the UK I played a game on the CBeebies website with my daughter (age 7). It wanted her to sign up for an account with an email address and details so that she could save her progress. She just plays from the beginning restarting each time and picking a different path through the game.

rlpb 12y ago
This is what cookies were invented for. It could easily save her progress in a persistent cookie with no need to sign up. (Signing up might still be an optional way of persisting that state beyond the cookie, for example to share progress between cookies, but that could easily come later and only when the user wants it)