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Your opinions need a memory. Not a dossier.

Here’s what this little double-take machine remembers, why, and how to make it forget. Updated 11 November 2026.

Who’s running this?

Blackbird Technical operates Do They Look Alike? and decides how this site uses personal data. For privacy requests, photo-rights concerns or a security report, use the Blackbird Technical contact form. Mention Do They Look Alike? and the page or comment involved. The form is on our separate business website; it asks for your name, reply address and message. Do not include passwords or your browser cookie. There is no guaranteed response time.

What gets remembered?

Your choices. Resemblance votes, separate “heard of them?” answers, submission times and a random browser identifier let you change a vote without adding a second one. We store a hash of the identifier, not your name. This is pseudonymous data, not a promise of complete anonymity.
One necessary cookie. Your first vote, suggestion, comment, upvote, report or challenge submission sets the first-party alike_voter cookie for up to a year. It supports the features you choose to use and repeat-submission checks. Browsing or searching alone does not set it. Blocking it means submissions cannot be saved.
Comments. Your guest name, text, reply relationship and posting time are public. Names are unverified; use a nickname and leave out private information. We store a browser hash to let you remove your comments and change an upvote. Reports store the selected reason, time and browser hash privately for manual review. No automatic moderation or guaranteed review time is promised.
Suggestions. We store the two public-figure names you nominate, the time and review status. They stay private until reviewed; there is no automatic publication. Please leave personal contact details and private people out of nominations.
Games and friend challenges. This tab keeps your current round, predictions and progress in session storage. A challenge saves a snapshot of your answers. Anyone with its link can play and reveal those answers after finishing. The host sees anonymous agreement counts. No player name or email is attached, but someone you send the link to may know it is yours.
Color theme. If you choose light or dark mode, we save that preference in this browser’s local storage. It is not sent to our database and stays until you change it or clear this site’s browser storage.
Recent activity and protection. We keep a 30-day record of which pictured people this browser voted on, plus short-lived request counters to limit rapid submissions. Clicks are not a worldwide fame score.

No accounts, photo uploads, facial recognition, advertising or third-party analytics. The app does not collect your IP address or a browser fingerprint into its database. Hosting and database providers still process technical request information to run and protect their services.

What does everybody else see?

Public comments and guest names, aggregate poll results, and the answer snapshots you choose to share through challenge links. Searches stay in your browser. Other visitors cannot browse your suggestions or download your private voting history. Friends can forward links, so share only choices you are happy for others to see. Crowd results describe participating browsers, not the population; one browser is not proof of one person.

Why keep any of it?

To provide the voting, results, recognition polls, comments, suggestions and challenges you request; prevent repeated clicks from multiplying a vote; and keep the service secure. Where GDPR applies, our basis is legitimate interests in operating this optional game and protecting the integrity of its polls. You can object using the contact above or delete your browser’s contributions below. There are no decisions with legal or similarly significant effects, and we do not sell visitor data.

How long is the memory?

Votes, recognition answers, comments, upvotes, reports and suggestions remain until you delete them or we remove them during maintenance. The cookie expires after at most one year; cookie expiry alone does not erase earlier database records. Recent activity lasts 30 days. Challenge links expire after 30 days and expired records are removed when a later challenge is created. Short-lived rate counters are cleaned during subsequent requests. Provider backups and service logs have separate retention schedules; the app’s deletion control does not promise instant erasure from all provider backups.

Game progress normally ends when the tab session ends, though your browser may restore a session. The delete control also clears game progress in this tab and notifies other open site tabs where supported. Close other game tabs if your browser cannot receive that notification.

Your data. Your exit button.

Download or delete my data →

Use the same browser you played in. Deletion removes its votes, recognition answers, comment text and names, upvotes, reports, suggestions, recent activity, challenges and cookie from the active application database. A blank comment placeholder may remain so other people’s replies stay readable; the comment’s name, text and author link are removed. Deleting a challenge also removes its friends’ answer snapshots for that challenge. Copies already saved by someone else are outside the app’s control. If you erase the cookie first, we may no longer be able to connect you to earlier records.

Depending on applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability, and object to processing. Use the business contact form above; do not send passwords or your cookie. We may need proportionate information to locate your records and verify the request. Where GDPR applies, you may also complain to your local supervisory authority; the EDPB directory lists EU authorities.

Who helps keep the lights on?

Vercel hosts the site and Turso stores the application data. Their infrastructure and subprocessors may process data outside your country. See Vercel’s privacy policy and Turso’s privacy policy. External source and license links have their own policies. We use HTTPS, server-only database credentials and restricted request handling; no website can promise perfect security.

And the faces?

Named adult public figures only. Sources and photo licenses accompany comparisons. Haircuts, lighting, expressions and decades can do a lot of heavy lifting. The polls are subjective opinions, not identity matches or claims of a family connection. No one pictured is affiliated with or endorses this site. Keep the double takes friendly.