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 ...
Pretty much Google is in complete control.
Bottom line from the article, Google has extended tendrils into just about every app and website.
Use ‘duck-duck go’ to go on youtube and google limits what you can see.
Every couple of years, I give up the internet for Lent. Honestly, I feel a lot less stressed overall happier when I do this.
I gave up picking my navel for Lent.
Need to bust them up, Mr. Trump. What more proof do you need?
I gave up Hope for Lent.
I gave up picking my navel for Lent.
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forty days of lint
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forty days of lint
Nice!!!
MONOPOLY.
It does not matter “how” it is formed, it is the form itself that defines it.
The lead philosopher of free enterprise economics, Adam Smith, was no fan of monopolies. His arguments cared not about the manner in which they were formed (usually back then a government created entity). What he saw that he didn’t like was how they ate up and stifled real competition and placed too much market power in too few hands, driving decisions all around them that catered to the monopoly, not competition.
How does Google differ from AT&T, which was declared a monopoly and broken up?
If the Terminator series called it Google instead, it would have sounded corny.........
I’ve noticed the google files keep coming back. Google-analytics, apisgoogle, about 7 of them. And these are MB size files. Who knows what’s in them? They are obviously the google ad system but likely used by popups. The offending files maybe the “cloud” items which have a long string of numbers in their name.
2019 is an alternate year?:)
“Use ‘duck-duck go’ to go on youtube and google limits what you can see.”
It’s worse. Everyone who has an android cell phone is in a meaningful relationship with Google whether they like it or not. I had to set up a Gmail account (which I never use) just to use the phone. I hate Google, but I hate Apple, too.
Google has lots of liberal political support, AND, a lot of investors.
I'm always hesitant to comment on anything IT, as I am no way an IT person, but my understanding is that other companies, like IBM, have extensive cloud capacity and could be alternatives to Google - providing competition.
started up my laptop this AM and clicked on Google. The Google doodle was a bunch of birthday candles and when i clicked on it, it said “happy birthday (my name)”. Yes today is my birthday and it freaked me out. Just waiting on Alexa to start singing happy birthday and then i’m outta here.
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