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visudo9977yYes, b...but Google says that's its better to use their CDN, so don't be surprised everyone is using it.
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visudo9977y@linuxxx sadly, without Google content the web was hardly usable.
I tried to block everything Google on my VPN provider config and I had a hard time loading nearly every website...
How do you do that? -
@visudo I use an extension called Decentraleyes :).
But yeah, next to that, it gives me a hard time but I'll take that over having to load something from google :) -
@Alice I did once I think, my dns resolver was edited by my system so I could load google stuff again
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wizzzard8057yAre there any good alternatives to Google when it comes to reCAPTCHA-style spam/bot-protection?
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@wizzzard There are open source captcha alternatices but they don't have the resources recaptcha has, that's a fact.
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xewl41157y@cabrasm or just install them locally? Shouldn't that work out of the box, when you're blocking the requests anyway?
Do NOT use SkyFonts though, what a POS!!! -
I wrote a Firefox extension a while back that replaced as many external resources as it could with cdnjs.com versions.
I made it specifically to fix sites on my de-Googled phone. If I can find the code, I'll try to clean it up and publish it. -
@vlatkozelka I get your point but it's a choice. Except for the Google services part, it's not that hard to host a library on your own server...
I do that anyways, not only for privacy because if I'd use a cdn and it would go down, that would be a problem.
You could argue that my server could also go down but then I'd have bigger problems haha.
And yes, I do find it irresponsible to use Google products or integrate them within your services. Personal opinion, that's all. -
@vlatkozelka Well if course it will be the free one but there are multiple free choices and also responsible/ethical ones I think
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@linuxxx found it! I cleaned up the code just enough to be presentable: https://gitlab.com/franga2000/...
I've completely forgotten how to package extensions, so I'll have to look it up later today, but you can run it in debug mode in the mean time. -
@linuxxx never mind that last part. It was approved on AMO in seconds: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/...
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Do you know what annoys the living fuck out of me?
Me: no...?
Me: may I tell?
Me: yes, please do!
Me: okay here we go:
Sites which use Google fonts or apis or ajax or other Google-hosted libraries.
It takes fucking ages to load those sites (if they lost et-all) since I block as much as possible from that cocksucking mass surveillance network.
Google, feel free to die in a fucking corner while getting an acid shower and being stripped of your skin layer by layer, as slow as possible to increase the pain and suffering.
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fuck google