Is there a way to block access to and from all of Google's servers?
Is there a way to block access to and from all of Google's servers?
I'd like to do this mainly as an experiment.
To see how well the web works without anything served by or data sent to Google.
Is there a list of IP ranges I can just block in my hosts file?
A Firefox extension?
A script?
Here's a list of their public IP addresses
25Interesting idea! Some of what I anticipate would happen:
- Captcha-protected sites no longer usable
- Google Maps API being blocked would break address recognition, causing some forms to no longer work (food delivery for instance)
- Symbols not being rendered on websites that rely on google-provided fonts
- Some websites rely entirely on google for internal search
- Other weird breakage on websites that rely on googleapis.com
- Of course no more Youtube videos, even embedded
What else?
13I guess, any website served by Google Cloud wouldn't work either.
7God I'm a nerd, I read the first few words of the third one and my mind immediately jumped to debug symbols and was instantly confused. Lol then i told my adhd to take a back seat and read the rest.
2I get it 100%! I'm a systems nerd myself and that meaning came to my mind right after I had typed the word “symbols.” It would have been more accurate for me to have said “glyphs”instead.
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If you manage to do it, please report what happens. I expect a lot of weird things, at the very least
10What if we think all is well but really OP can't access Lemmy to tell us that the results are apocalyptic.
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There is this which seems interesting https://github.com/nickspaargaren/no-google
Purge Google from your network!
Also has lists for the rest of GAFAM at the bottom
N.B. I have not tried this myself
8Firmly say "No!" aloud.
5If google’s fraternity culture is anything to go off that would just make them harder.
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Rather than rely on an extension, I think I would add the publicly listed up ranges to my hosts file. That will blackhole any connections where a browser extension wouldn't actually stop anything until it was being processed by the extension.
4It sounds like what you're looking for is a DNS blocklist. I know NextDNS has a Google blocklist. NextDNS is easy to use and I highly recommend it.
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