this will not help much as some google products use IPs (4 and 6) directly too.
CIDR blocks are your friend, at the firewall.
Know of a lib to manage them?
PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
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Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#132Hosted 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.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#133If you block AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure... that is pretty much the whole internet.
But that isn’t the point of this blocklist tho.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#134>GAFAM 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?
Yeah, It's due to myself being french, so I proposed including this in the readme.md as GAFAM, as other more ¨international¨ depiction of these group were less prominent. If you think that FAANG is a better acronym, i’ll change it.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#135The 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)
Are there any extensions that modify external resources and point them towards a "trusted" cdn? e.g. requesting " rel="nofollow">https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.mi... Would automatically remap to https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.m...
It is great that you could local cache the top X fonts in Google Fonts and never have to redownload them from Google's CDN. It's just too bad that having fonts locally installed or not can be a signal to trackers or otherwise it would be a lot easier to recommend to everyone to just install larger font banks.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#136The 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)
Are there any extensions that modify external resources and point them towards a "trusted" cdn? e.g. requesting " rel="nofollow">https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.mi... Would automatically remap to https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.m...
Decentraleyes is an extension that replaces CDN references with local copies (Chrome, Brave, Firefox, Opera).
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#137This 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.
I set up a daily script to download new videos from channels I like using youtube-dl. It works really well, I rarely visit the actual YouTube site anymore.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
I get that. Using uMatrix, it becomes really obvious how many websites are reliant on jQuery and likely don't really need it.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there any extensions that modify external resources and point them towards a "trusted" cdn? e.g. requesting " rel="nofollow">https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.mi... Would automatically remap to https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.m...
It is great that you could local cache the top X fonts in Google Fonts and never have to redownload them from Google's CDN. It's just too bad that having fonts locally installed or not can be a signal to trackers or otherwise it would be a lot easier to recommend to everyone to just install larger font banks.
Could we bundle more fonts with Firefox? Or provide a browser opt out for that behaviour...
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is great that you could local cache the top X fonts in Google Fonts and never have to redownload them from Google's CDN. It's just too bad that having fonts locally installed or not can be a signal to trackers or otherwise it would be a lot easier to recommend to everyone to just install larger font banks.
Could we bundle more fonts with Firefox? Or provide a browser opt out for that behaviour...
Bundling more fonts with browsers and operating systems by default is probably the biggest way to do that.
(The corresponding problem with that being how many people would then blame that as browser bloat and complain about the size of all the fonts and how much they "clutter" one's font system.)
The browser would have to be pretty tricksy to solve the tracking problem with local fonts, because the tracking techniques themselves are pretty tricksy.
Such as: Render text to a GL target as fast as possible and hit detect the metrics of the asked for font versus the fallback font.
You would think techniques by the browser to minimize FOUT (flash of unstyled text) mitigates against this sort of tracking, but some of the techniques involve timing between JS load and DOM Ready events.
Admittedly there are easier tests than font loading tests for deanonymization on the web, but obviously if the goal is to de-Google it is worth keeping in mind.