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linuxxx
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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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  • 3
    Yes, b...but Google says that's its better to use their CDN, so don't be surprised everyone is using it.
  • 6
    @Alice Basically haha. Next to that I can hardly load it since it's not finishing loading 😅

    @visudo I'm not surprised. Just annoyed as fuck haha.
  • 2
    @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?
  • 6
    @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 :)
  • 2
    @Alice I did once I think, my dns resolver was edited by my system so I could load google stuff again
  • 5
    I love how without seeing who posted this rant I knew instantly that it was @linuxxx just by reading the lines about Google libraries
  • 0
    Are there any good alternatives to Google when it comes to reCAPTCHA-style spam/bot-protection?
  • 0
    @wizzzard There are open source captcha alternatices but they don't have the resources recaptcha has, that's a fact.
  • 0
    @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!!!
  • 1
    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.
  • 0
    @franga2000 That'd be awesome!
  • 1
    @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.
  • 0
    @vlatkozelka Well if course it will be the free one but there are multiple free choices and also responsible/ethical ones I think
  • 1
    @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.
  • 1
    @linuxxx never mind that last part. It was approved on AMO in seconds: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/...
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