Is there a way to block access to and from all of Google's servers? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by KISSmyOS@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] catfooddispenser@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 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?

[-] helmet91@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

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

[-] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 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.

[-] catfooddispenser@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 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.

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