Forget ditching Google apps and services. What happens when you block all of your devices from pinging Google servers? It's not pretty.
: 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.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.
Hill was unable to stream her favorite on songs on Spotify. Yep. Spotify hosts all its music on the Google Cloud. Attempting to simply browse the web created flashbacks of the internet in the 90's."On Airbnb, photos won’t load," Hill says."New York Times articles won’t appear until the site has tried to load Google Analytics, Google Pay, Google News, Google ads,When trying to share video journals to her colleagues at Gizmodo, Dropbox refused to let her log in because the service uses an invisible CAPTCHA -- hosted by Google -- to verify that real humans are trying to access it.
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.
Ultimately, Hill walked away from the experience feeling recharged because she wasn't as reliant on her devices, but observes that the downfall of switching away from even a handful of Google apps means literally a higher cost of living. Paying for decentralized, private services like ProtonMail and other alternatives that don't trade service fees for your personal data can add up fast., so I encourage you to absorb it in its entirety.
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