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Around half of all websites use Google analytics so good luck totally avoiding Google. Just use an ad blocker. O wait all the chromium browsers just made that
by bix6 1y ago
Around half of all websites use Google analytics so good luck totally avoiding Google.
Just use an ad blocker. O wait all the chromium browsers just made that harder with manifest v3. 75% of browsers are chromium based?
I don’t think it’s fair to compare digital services to something like PGE. Fundamentally different.
Google lost the case. They just weren’t punished how they should’ve been.
Edit: wow and how could I forget 8.8.8.8 or google’s own transmission lines!
- bitpush 1y ago> Around half of all websites use Google analytics so good luck totally avoiding Google. Isnt adding Google Analytics to the website a decision solely and independently made by the website in question?
- bix6 1y agoYou said you you can browse the internet independent of Google and I’m saying you can’t because yes other people can force Google onto you
- bitpush 1y agoWhether a company has a business relationship with a company you dont like, doesnt make the same argument you're making. It is like saying, I dont like Coca Cola but when I go to McDonald's to eat food, they only serve Coca Cola. Hence, Coca Cola is.. bad? McDonald's is free to chose any business partner they like, and you insisting that McDonald's shouldnt use Coca Cola sounds silly.
- endemic 1y agoIf you went to McDonalds and had to drink Coke just to walk in the door.
- JustExAWS 1y agoIf I understand correctly, manifest v3 is like what Safari implemented a decade ago and it’s perfectly possible to block Google analytics with Safari content blockers.
- bix6 1y agoYes you can still block it’s just stripped down now eg ublock lite. My point is that it’s incredibly difficult to avoid Google. Especially for people who aren’t nerds.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoHow is your argument that you can’t avoid Google supported by the argument that with manifest v3 you can’t block Google analytics even though you can? In the US, iOS has 60% market share and installing an ad blocker is a matter of going to the App Store and installing it and then enabling in settings. They all walk you through the process. It’s the same on the Mac with the Mac App Store.
- bix6 1y agoThat’s not my entire argument I just started going a rabbit hole to show how tied in it all is. Google pays Apple to be the default search engine. Google transmits our data undersea. You can’t easily avoid them!
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoAnd you can change your search engine. If you have evidence that someone Google has quantum computers that allows it decrypt encrypted traffic, I’m sure people would like to know. But no one has been proposing that Google not be allowed to have underseas cables
- bix6 1y agoYeah because metadata isn’t important… The argument is that you can cut Google out of your life. The reality is you can’t and many don’t even realize how deeply intertwined it is.
- fred_is_fred 1y agoAnd the other half all put a giant pop-up asking me to sign into Google. I've not yet figured out how to block it, if anyone knows I would love to hear it.
- master-lincoln 1y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/#wiki_google_login_dialogs_on_various_pages https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/#wiki_g...
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