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Is there a way to block access to and from all of Google's servers? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Interesting 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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I guess, any website served by Google Cloud wouldn't work either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

God 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you manage to do it, please report what happens. I expect a lot of weird things, at the very least

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

What if we think all is well but really OP can't access Lemmy to tell us that the results are apocalyptic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Firmly say "No!" aloud.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If google’s fraternity culture is anything to go off that would just make them harder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It 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.