What Quad knows about you

Short version: your games and what you post on the board, and nothing that says who you are. No email, no phone number, no real name, no school, no photo of you, no location. Last updated September 2026.

An account is a username and a password

That is all of it. No email, no phone number, no birthday, and no signing in through anybody else's account. Nothing you type is checked against a real identity. The only things other people ever see are your username, your picture, and anything you choose to post on the board.

The board is public, and so is thetop ten. Anything you post on the board can be read by anybody with the link, signed in or not, with your username and picture next to it. Treat it as writing on a wall at school rather than as a message. Posts are kept for seven days and then they are gone.

On the top ten: If you are one of the ten people who have played the most different games, that page shows your username, your picture and how many games you have played, to anybody with the link and without them signing in. It shows a count, never a list: which games you played is not on it, and neither is your account code. If you would rather not be on it, the way off is to not be in the top ten, which is worth knowing before you go for it.

Because there is no email, there is no reset link. Instead you get six words when you sign up. Those words are the only way back into an account whose password has been forgotten, so keep them somewhere safe. If you lose both the password and the words, nobody can get the account back for you, including whoever runs Quad. You can swap the six words for a new set at any time while you are signed in.

What is stored

• Which games you saved and recently played.
• Your username and your chosen picture.
• What you post on the board, for seven days, then it is deleted.
• Scrambled versions of your password and your recovery phrase that cannot be turned back into either. Nobody, including whoever runs Quad, can read them. That is also why the six words can be replaced but never shown to you a second time.
• A count of how many people visited each day. Just a number, with no visitor id and no record of what anybody looked at.
• A count of how many questions Ask answered each day, and how much of the day's AI allowance is left. Numbers only. Never the question and never the answer.

What Ask does with your questions

A question goes to Quad's server, which passes it to the model that answers it, and the answer comes back. Neither the question nor the answer is stored on the server. Nothing about who asked goes with it.

Your chats are saved, but on the computer you are sitting at and nowhere else, in the same place the browser keeps its own history. Two things follow from that: they survive closing the tab, and anybody else using this Chromebook in the same browser can open them. Every chat has a Delete next to it, and Settings → Clear everything on this computer removes the lot.

To stop spam and guessing, your device's network address (its IP) is used for up to two minutes to count how many requests it is making, then thrown away. It is never written down next to your account or anything you did.

Who can see what you post

Everybody. The board is one page the whole site shares and it can be read without signing in. There is no private messaging on Quad at all — it was removed in v2.0.0 — so there is nothing here that is between you and one other person.

Your school can probably see it too. If you are on a school Chromebook, the filter your school installs can read what is on the screen no matter which website you are using or how it is encrypted. That is true of Quad, Instagram, Google Docs and everything else. Nobody can promise you otherwise, so we are not going to.

Who Quad is for

People aged 13 and over. If you are under 13, this is not for you. There is not yet a one-tap delete button (see the end of this page), so an account we find that belongs to someone under 13 is stopped from posting until that is built.

The games and videos are other people's sites

The games run from a handful of other websites, loaded inside Quad, and videos play in YouTube's own player. Those sites see what any website you open sees, which is that a device asked for a page, and some of the game sites show their own ads. When you search for a video, the words go to YouTube through Quad's own server so your device never talks to YouTube to search; playing one, though, is YouTube's player and YouTube's rules. Quad adds no trackers of its own, on any page.

What you cannot post

Text and a fixed set of reactions. No photos, no video, no files. Profile pictures come from a set that ships with the site, and Quad never takes an upload from anybody. Links can be typed but are never clickable, and they get flagged for review.

Reporting

Every post and every reply has a report button, and it is the only way to report something. A report copies what was written so it can still be read after the post itself has rolled away, it is kept for 90 days, and it goes straight to the person who runs Quad, who can stop an account posting.

There is no contact email, on purpose. Quad is run anonymously, and an address would undo that. It does mean that if you are a parent or a school with a question, there is currently no way to get in touch. That is a real limitation rather than an oversight.

Getting rid of it

Settings → Clear everything on this computer wipes Quad off the machine you are on, including your saved games and your Ask conversations.

Nothing here is kept forever, whether you ask or not. Board posts delete themselves after seven days. An account that goes unused for 400 days is deleted along with everything attached to it. There is not yet a button that deletes an account on the spot; that is a real gap and it is being built.