Here's The Shocking Reality Of Completely Blocking Google From Your Life

Forbes ^ | Apr 9, 2019, 11:49am | Jason Evangelho Contributor

[Responsibility2nd]

The Creepy Line. A term Google coined. A line they cross a million times per hour.

https://www.thecreepyline.com/

[Mastador1]

Funny how they attacked Microsoft for being a monopoly yet Google and others that are bigger monopolies get a pass.

[Professional]

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.

[outofsalt]

Fiesta time!

[discostu]

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.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

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.

[Borges]

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.

[daniel1212]

Hill discovered that after only a few hours into her experiment, her various devices had tried to ping Google servers more than 15,000 times. After one week, that number had ballooned to more than 100,000. Apparently that number paled in comparison to her "block Amazon challenge" which revealed 293,000 attempted pings to Amazon servers in one short week.

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.

[dayglored]

Google is Everywhere ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to daniel1212 for the ping!

[Mr. Jeeves]

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. :)

[bgill]

Ma Bell was nothing compared to Google.

[ßuddaßudd]

kinda like that POS Øbama,, in control and in charge of everything,, but not responsible for anything ..

[READINABLUESTATE]

I can do this with the push of a single button. Off.

[discostu]

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.

[itsahoot]

I can do this with the push of a single button. Off.

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.

[Swordmaker]

Google and Amazon ARE Big Brother on the Internet. They both have made themselves indispensable to almost every single webpage and literally impossible to disconnect yourself from their intrusive data mining of your information. “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" and discovered that Amazon even more than Google was tracking her browsing on websites, hitting Amazon servers hundreds of thousands of times and still attempting to hit Google servers almost as many times, still tracking her. . . even with Google Apps turned off and Google ads blocked. Real eye opener! —PING!

Internet Privacy Intrusion
Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Swordmaker]

I’d been getting these annoying “You have won!” popups on my iPhone. Rather than clear all my data and history (standard recommended fix), I selectively deleted the pages from Safari history. Then I went to Settings > Safari > Advanced > Website Data to search and delete items containing the deleted page domain, goog, ama, ad, cdn, any number, cloud, and any number. I also scanned the largest items and deleted many. This fixed things... for a while.

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.

[Still Thinking]

I gave up picking my navel for Lent.

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forty days of lint

[rimshot] Props!

[lysie]

later

[WashingtonSource]

I gave up picking the lint out of my navel for Lent.