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So, if I use a device that doesn’t support tracking, and they track it anyway, how do they get it to present the “do not sell my personal information” button?
by hedora 2y ago
So, if I use a device that doesn’t support tracking, and they track it anyway, how do they get it to present the “do not sell my personal information” button?
Also, are there any decent plugins that block all of google instead of just the ads? I imagine they’d need to MITM static font assets, etc.
I also wonder if / when this means Google will start fingerprinting and tracking tenants’ customers on GCP.
- TheBozzCL 2y agoPersonally, I went the nuclear route with a Pihole. My devices can’t talk to Google.
- timbit42 2y agoWhat if they use IPs instead of domain names?
- TheBozzCL 2y agoThen you write router-level firewall rules for the IPs you know are safe to fully block. You can do that selectively so you don’t break other devices. I already do this for local DNS circumvention, which is probably a lot more common than hardcoded IPs.
- timbit42 2y agoRight, but Pi-Hole can't help with this.
- chgs 2y agoPresumably you set your router to intercept all UDP/53 traffic, but remember the whole point of DoH is to prevent that and ensure nothing gets between the advertising surface and the advert source.
- TheBozzCL 2y agoThat’s why I also block all known DoH IPs. It’s a pretty long list, like 130 IPs. I have an allowlist for devices I don’t want to mess with, like my Pihole or guest devices. It’s definitely not perfect, but it does de job for now.
- foobarchu 2y agoThis works until you start living with someone who gets frustrated by things like sponsored results not working (completely fair, because they are often highly relevant).
- wobfan 2y agoI came back home to my parents house this christmas and my parents and my brother complained to my why the Google sponsored links don't work anymore (because I've set their DNS to an adblock DNS). I couldn't believe what they were saying. Their words didn't make sense to me. I ended up in removing all adblock- and privacy-related settings in our router - it felt like a defeat.
- blitzar 2y agoTo be fair to your family, Google have spent billions making the Google sponsored links look like organic search results.
- TheBozzCL 2y agoYou can set blocking per-device. I have strict blocking for my own devices, super-heavy blocking for IoT and other untrusted devices, and a lighter blocking as default. If they complain, I can disable blocking for them, or even set up a guest VLAN.
- zzo38computer 2y agoWhat I think is one thing that would be helpful is the ability to define unencrypted proxies for encrypted connections (which is especially useful if the proxy is on the same computer), where the browser does not encrypt the request being sent to the proxy and does not expect an encrypted response; so that the encryption with the server will be handled by the proxy instead. This will save power, as well as allow blocking without needing to encrypt and decrypt the data twice.