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?

  • systemd-catfoodd
    13·
    11 months ago

    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?

    • azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • systemd-catfoodd
        1·
        11 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.

  • Hexagon@feddit.it
    10·
    11 months ago

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

    • Omega_Haxors
      2·
      11 months ago

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

  • Schwim Dandy@lemmy.world
    62·
    11 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.

  • Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    11 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.