Fiesta time!
Posted on 04/11/2019 5:56:23 AM PDT by vannrox
How deeply does Google penetrate both your internet life and your real life? Maybe you've been considering ditching Google search for Duck Duck Go, or trading in Google Chrome for a privacy-respecting browser like Brave? Perhaps you want to separate yourself from Gmail and Google Maps? Those are all worthwhile endeavors, but what happens when you actively block all of your devices from even pinging Google's servers? Apparently, nothing short of nightmare fuel.
Gizmodo's Kashmir Hill recently accepted a monumental challenge: blocking tech giants from her everyday life due to privacy concerns and sheer curiosity. But she took the challenge to extreme lengths to demonstrate just how pervasive these companies are beyond just the apps they provide.
How? By actively blocking all communication with Google's 8,699,648 (!) IP addresses on every device she owned. Not merely finding alternatives for the various Google apps we all rely on, but preventing those devices from pinging a single Google server.
The results were both calamitous and eye-opening.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
The Creepy Line. A term Google coined. A line they cross a million times per hour.
https://www.thecreepyline.com/
Funny how they attacked Microsoft for being a monopoly yet Google and others that are bigger monopolies get a pass.
They attacked MSFT because they wouldn’t cozy up to the Clintons in their early years. Bill learned, the hard way. Silicon Valley paid the CLintons, MSFT didn’t. So, MSFT got the kibosh.
Fiesta time!
They went after MS for LEVERAGING their monopoly to gain access to other markets (specifically the browser). Being a monopoly is NOT illegal. Using that monopoly advantage in certain ways is. And of course, MS is still in the browser market. So you see just how effective that was. And of course Google doesn’t have anywhere near the market penetration MS does. These days people confuse big with monopoly. The very fact that people insist 3 different companies that compete with each other in various markets are all monopolies shows just how silly the word has gotten.
In reading all 6 segments of the original article, I saw that Content Blockers can be installed on the iPhone to prevent ads and tracking. AdGuard and Firefox Focus look to do the work. No more manual web data deletes.
And it’s possible for non monopoly companies to engage in illegal competitive practices etc. But would it be fair to call mobile OS market a duopoly? Google and Apple have like 97% of the market between them. Not that duopoly is any sort of legally actionable category.
dayglored, you should ping your list to this one, even if it is not Windows. I would think that this is one of the reasons you would have a really hard time doing much surfing on Window 9x machines.
Note that you can get a lot of info using the Firefox Console (F12). Hit F1 to change the them to Dark, which is better.
Thanks to daniel1212 for the ping!
Looks like we are headed back to the old days - instead of Compuserve or AOL controlling the entire experience we will be able to pick between Google, Apple, or Microsoft Internets (competition!) with all the bad stuff carefully filtered out so we don’t have to worry our little heads about accidentally seeing Trump supporters or pictures of guns. :)
Ma Bell was nothing compared to Google.
kinda like that POS Øbama,, in control and in charge of everything,, but not responsible for anything ..
I can do this with the push of a single button. Off.
American markets tend to lean to 2. It seems to be when we’re comfortable. A 3rd shows up and the deck reshuffles. Look at office stores, there were Max and Depot, then Staples showed up, then Max and Depot merged, so we’re back to 2.
Sure you can and no one will notice, while the rest of the world will continue to get the liberal version of truth like always. You will make no more difference than you will have if you died.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
It’s an entire webpage that exists as redirecting script an ad in GOOGLE’s ad rotation. As part of the scrip it preloads your browser history with it’s own URL for multiple visits to its own URL address. . . I’ve seen up to 100 "visits" in both directions, past and future. The best way to clear that is to force quit Safari then clear your history, then reopen safari.
I gave up picking my navel for Lent.
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forty days of lint
[rimshot] Props!
later
I gave up picking the lint out of my navel for Lent.
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