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Tool beeps every time data is sent to Google
- butz 4y agoGenius! And I'm sitting here and debugging Google Analytics tracking with developer tools console.log and networking panel. On my next project I'm going all out and integrating TTS to debug Google Analytics events.
- z3c0 4y agoHaving set up a Pi-Hole recently, I've had a similar realization, but for all of FAANG. I've noticed that the moment phones start getting used on my network, more than half of the requests made end up getting blocked.
- pronlover723 4y agoAny stats by F A A N G? I'm guessing for me given I have a bunch of Apple stuff that one A is getting a lot of pings. The other A very few. I have a kindle but it's not plugged in and I haven't turned it on for months. G, well I use Chrome and many Google apps on iPhone. F, have FB and Messenger apps on iPhone but assume those are mostly isolated.
- perlgeek 4y agoAmazon owns AWS, so lots of services that you don't think of as Amazon related (Netflix, lots of news sites, ...) would trigger this.
- z3c0 4y agoUnfortunately, it's not so clear-cut by looking at which domains are getting hits, but it would make a good weekend project. I'd have to map all subsidiaries back to their parents eg YouTube or IG, and then there's the trick of dealing with third-parties, like branch.io, who appears to be very popular.
- yasinaydin 4y agoNot OP, but I've been using NextDNS [1] (a similar pi-hole like setup) on my phone and in its analytics there's a GAFAM Dominance graph. This graph [2] isn't mine but it looks similar to my results. [1]: https://nextdns.io https://nextdns.io [2]: https://twitter.com/NextDNS/status/1159804929680257024 https://twitter.com/NextDNS/status/1159804929680257024
- asicsp 4y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32549604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32549604 "Audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into Google" (290 points | 5 days ago | 205 comments)
- stiray 4y agoI have done something a tad different. I am running my custom made proxy (dns blocking like pihole is a joke, you can circumvent it as simply as https://2899908462 https://2899908462 ) with interesting features like ASN ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet) ) blocking and for fun I have blocked all google ASNs. Half of the internet stopped working. Then I have expanded this to google, microsoft, amazon, facebook ASNs. The whole internet stopped working. From all search engines I am aware of, only yandex.ru was still operational. What you are seeing with beeping is just a tip of iceberg. The google is getting far more data from its cloud. I don't believe that most of advanced users are aware of, how deep the rabbit hole of internet centralization has gone. And until people figure out how important self hosting actually is, it is only going for worse (yeah, I understand how convenient, blah, blah... the cloud is).
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- wombat-man 4y agoDid the internet maybe stop working because you blocked all the major cloud providers? Nextdns (lazy man's pihole) does a decent job of adblock and seems to stop stuff like Braze tracking from working.
- stiray 4y agoSure it did. But those are the data that google is getting, it is network transfer trough its servers. They are far beyond "tracking the clicks". And btw, no. The DNS blocking is stopping only domains. The primary addressing level is ip and you cant block it by preventing access to domains. But you can do it using proxy (or firewall, but typically firewall is clueless about the data layer), that is why I made it and while it can read the pihole blacklist and use them, it can do much more (like screwing js browser fingerprinting on network level by injecting js that randomizes the image creation etc.).
- pedrocr 4y ago
- dopu 4y agoThe beeping while he types in the URL is completely unsurprising. That’s just autocomplete. Still, a neat tool. Does anyone know what triggers the call to Google whenever he expands a menu on the site? Google Analytics?
- Roby65 4y agoYeah probably analytics, it tracks clicks and page changes
- yreg 4y agoFrankly the rest is completely unsurprising as well. "Large" commercial websites tend to track user actions. Either via Google Analytics or other (sometimes even more intrusive) means.
- poorlyknit 4y agoWebsites love to record interactions, however insignificant they are, in order to correlate them with conversions. I'd say Google Analytics is likely the right answer.
- roncesvalles 4y agoIt's common these days for sites to track not only which buttons you clicked but where exactly you clicked on the button using tech like Hotjar.
- f0e4c2f7 4y agoSetup at the router level with a raspberry pi or something might be fun. Beeps when you're not even at a computer.
- Havoc 4y agoFound prefer to see a firefox version. i.e. excluding the built in chrome telemetry
- michaelsshaw 4y agohttps://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1561650689474011136 https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1561650689474011136
- Havoc 4y agooh wow. Right that is pretty bleak
- sweetbitter 4y agoThe tracking is mostly present in the scripts running on those sites, not the browser itself. You have to run NoScript and other blockers to deal with those.
- MikusR 4y agoThe tracking is also present on internal Firefox pages like the add-on one, where Mozilla intentionally block extensions like ublock.
- thih9 4y agoOfftopic, looks like the easiest way to record a screencast with sound from the machine was to film it with another device. This is not a jab at linux, I wouldn't know how to do that with MacOS either; the default Cmd+Shift+5 video capture tool doesn't allow recording internal sound. I'm surprised that in 2022 this task can still be so problematic.
- blamazon 4y agoThere are very cheap USB HDMI capture sticks on the market that I use for this. Works great on all platforms!
- fassssst 4y agoOBS Studio can do it on Windows.
- GeekyBear 4y ago> I wouldn't know how to do that with MacOS either; the default Cmd+Shift+5 video capture tool doesn't allow recording internal sound. >If you would like to screen record on your Mac with audio, you can use the QuickTime Player provided by Apple. Select it from your applications folder and then go to File > New Screen Recording from the top menu bar. https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/screen-record-on-mac-with-sound-22-06-2022/ https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/screen-record-on-mac-with-soun...
- LaputanMachine 4y agoIf you want to record sound generated by the computer itself only (not the microphone), you can use a tool like BlackHole [1]. BlackHole adds a loopback audio device which can be used with the default video capture tool (select the loopback device in the options menu after pressing shift-command-5). To be able to play audio from the speakers while you're recording, you need to add a multi-output audio device in the macOS "Audio MIDI Setup" app. Switch to the multi-output device by option-clicking the audio icon in the top menu bar. Now both the speakers as well as the BlackHole audio device will receive audio. [1]: https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole
- bobthechef 4y ago
- janci 4y agoThe beeping could have been more sharp, like geiger-muller counter sound.
- bragr 4y ago>However, it appears the Google services set includes the cloud IP addresses, so you must check both sets before determining something is in fact a Google service and not a Google customer. That's a pretty big caveat at the bottom of the GitHub readme https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller#data-source https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller#data-source
- bspammer 4y agoIt’s badly worded as it implies the tool doesn’t do this, when it actually does: > we need to define an ip(6)tables ipset. This will first exclude Google Cloud, and then include all the other Google IP addresses.
- OrangeMonkey 4y agoLooks like the tool does this. That said, since there are 3 google cloud customers in the world right now I think its a small issue.
- riedel 4y agoAs discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32549604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32549604 (over 200 comments)
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- bvinc 4y agoMake a version that uses different frequencies for different major companies.
- nikau 4y agoThe beeps likely combine to a high frequency outside of the human hearing range
- demindiro 4y agoThis is oddly effective at annoying me off YouTube.
- dqpb 4y agoGeigle Counter
- tradertef 4y agoCan this be made as a browser extension?
- jmiskovic 4y agoThe nice thing about his code[0] is that the C application just counts the new-lines on stdin and makes a beep for each. Just about anything could be fed into this app to make ad-hoc live monitor of activities. A simple one is to monitor any access to files inside a directory: inotifywait -r -m . | ./teller You could also beep on important events in your own log files, beep for each request that hits your socket, or set up the runtime to tell you when the garbage is collected. [0] https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller