If you block AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure... that is pretty much the whole internet.
But that isn’t the point of this blocklist tho.
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CreatedForThis commented on PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services github.com/nickspaargaren... · Posted by u/Jerry2
Hosted by Microsoft, suggests blocking Microsoft, too.
I´ve proposed the idea to move it elsewhere.
Either from an alternative service like on gitlab, or even on a self-hosted gittea instance.
CreatedForThis commented on PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services github.com/nickspaargaren... · Posted by u/Jerry2
Why is Apple at this list? What have they done?
¨by their size, they are particularly influential on the American and European Internet both economically and politically and socially and are regularly the subject of criticism or prosecution on tax matters, abuses of dominant positions and the non-respect of Internet users' privacy.¨
To be short, that what it is. But we can pin point each cases one by one. This filter list only concentrate on Google tho for the moment.
CreatedForThis commented on PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services github.com/nickspaargaren... · Posted by u/Jerry2
Has anyone actually used this? Does the web become completely unusable? I suspect blocking their fonts and their CDN for jquery would be enough to make most of the web unusable.
Well, myself actually. What i habitually do in those case, when this is really not usable, I just usually temporary whitelist them only for this specific domain i’m trying to access. This break obviously the purpose of the filter list partially tho.
CreatedForThis commented on PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services github.com/nickspaargaren... · Posted by u/Jerry2
The problem is that JS Fonts and other CDNed stuff won't load and websites will hang or work weird - particularly Stackoverflow. Bc it's all over https you can't MITM it and inject your own with OpenWRT/piholes. Decentraleyes (a Firefox browser extension) fixes some of this, but not all. If anyone has any additional suggestions, please let me know (it makes life bearable in China without a VPN)
I’ve added your suggestion to our list, and I will try to see if I can make, a separate list mainly for those dedicated web services. For myself, I always block all JS fonts, and CDN domains, and I think, only really use Decentraleyes for that (Or LocalCDN as an alternative), and most of the time, It's usable, but not on the few cases when no content at all is being pulled from those domains.
CreatedForThis commented on PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services github.com/nickspaargaren... · Posted by u/Jerry2
This is a nice idea, but the one thing I haven't been able to divorce myself from is YouTube. I really hate how Google has allowed such a wealth of constant information that completely dwarfs alternative video hosting sites. As censorious as Google can be(now "up next" is always some video from CNN or Fox), blocking YouTube from my network would mean cutting myself off from a large portion of the world.
Video-hosting website alternatives as YouTube are indeed, pretty difficult to use in hope to replace entirely that service.
I’ll say that peertube is going into a great way, but if it actually continues to gain success, it will surely take too many longs.
You can however, if its mainly for telemetry purposes, use something else like invidio.us which i’ve been using alongside it, since i’ve deleted my Google account.
CreatedForThis commented on PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services github.com/nickspaargaren... · Posted by u/Jerry2
I like that this site punts on reCAPTCHA. The web is not usable without Google services, which fact is useful in talking about the impossibility of consent as a model for regulating Google.
Alternative exists. It might not be usable entirely without them, but it can on a certain point.
We’ve separated the list into multiple categories, so that way, this could be easier to block some majors parts of their services only. And well, We´ve indicated the domain to whitelist in case you have issues with reCaptcha´s.
Never seen it listed out like that, I thought it was FAANG. Or is FAANG only used in reference to top salaries in the Bay Area?