Hosted by Microsoft, suggests blocking Microsoft, too.
PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
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Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#22Has 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.
You can use the Decentraleyes add-on to deal with jQuery on a CDN
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#23This 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.
You can always use YouTube through an alternate resource. Try invidio.us
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#24How does this deal with recaptcha? That thing is the bane of my web browsing experience, but at least with my current umatrix setup I can toggle it back on in 30 seconds if I need to pass the challenge; if I need to remote into the DNS everytime I hit a challenge it is a no go for me
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#25Has 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.
You can use the Decentraleyes add-on to deal with jQuery on a CDN
I can, but getting my whole house to use it including the iPhones may be a bit tough (this is a Pi-hole add on so it needs to work without device changes)
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#26How does this deal with recaptcha? That thing is the bane of my web browsing experience, but at least with my current umatrix setup I can toggle it back on in 30 seconds if I need to pass the challenge; if I need to remote into the DNS everytime I hit a challenge it is a no go for me
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Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#27This 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.
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There is so much political outrage-porn on YouTube, it's created an alternate reality.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#28How does this deal with recaptcha? That thing is the bane of my web browsing experience, but at least with my current umatrix setup I can toggle it back on in 30 seconds if I need to pass the challenge; if I need to remote into the DNS everytime I hit a challenge it is a no go for me
It says at the bottom that you might want to whilelist recaptcha
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#29If you don't mind blocking everything hosted on GCP as well: > dig TXT +short _netblocks{,2,3}.google.com | tr ' ' '\n' | egrep "(ip4:|ip6:)" Gives you a full list of all of Google's IP blocks. You can just blackhole those.
That's just their SPF record. It's only a list of IPs that google.com email might come from (or any domain that imports those records)
It's in SPF format, but it's also everything. See e.g. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/kb/
Another method is using GeoIP's ASN database, but they also run many ASNs so it would require a little effort to ensure you have them all
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
YouTube and Maps are one of the few Google services left which are still available over Tor. You can proxy youtube-dl and retain some of your privacy this way.
I've been thinking of setting up a super-tiny (about $15/year) VPS as a youtube-dl proxy for a while now. It's the only Google service that still remains valuable to me; I enjoy channels like Bad Obsession Motorsports and various indie musician channels, and Vimeo just doesn't have enough of that type of content, sadly. I know proxying through a VPS that I pay for doesn't 100% divorce me from Google's watchful eye, b…
Several video creators who got their start on Youtube have branched out to making their own platform, Nebula, if you are interested: https://watchnebula.com/