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@lemmy.ml
    13·
    10 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·
      10 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@lemmy.ml
        1·
        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.