PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
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#2This 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.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#3This 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.
pleroma (and i think maybe mastodon) provide media proxy that i think work for youtube. so when one person shares a video, one instance serves it to all the other users
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#4this will not help much as some google products use IPs (4 and 6) directly too.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#5I find Google Container to be an excellent plugin to segregate my Google account from the rest of my browsing. It's not an official plugin from Mozilla, but it is forked from the Facebook container plugin.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#6If 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.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#7If 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.
This is far from a complete list - I got only 8 netblocks with that command. Try this one instead which queries Merit RADb:
whois -h whois.radb.net '!gAS15169'Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#8This 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.
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.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#9Nice idea, but you're better off accomplishing it with TLD wildcards or AXFR transfers than a hosts list, since new sub-domains are always being created and rotated.
Re: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
#10If 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.
how come this seems to only work with ".google.com" tld?
I tried .apple.com, .yahoo.com, etc. and got nothing.