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?
If you manage to do it, please report what happens. I expect a lot of weird things, at the very least
What if we think all is well but really OP can’t access Lemmy to tell us that the results are apocalyptic.
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?
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.
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