{"id":47795,"date":"2019-04-11T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47795"},"modified":"2019-04-10T18:39:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T22:39:32","slug":"what-happens-if-you-block-access-to-all-of-googles-ip-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/what-happens-if-you-block-access-to-all-of-googles-ip-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens if you block access to all<\/em> of Google’s IP addresses?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The answer is … not a lot, or at least not quickly. So many companies use Google’s services in the background that even if you can get a particular site to work for you, it’ll very likely be as slow as a mid-90’s dial-up connection. Stephen Green<\/a> reports on someone’s live experiment with a Google-less internet:<\/p>\n

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Behind the scenes, [Gizmodo’s Kashmir] Hill’s specialty VPN blocked her devices from trying to ping Google’s servers more than 15,000 times — in just the first few hours. After a week, it had stopped more than 100,000 attempts to share data with Google. And to repeat, this is after Hill had stopped using any of Google’s apps or services. The company has its tendrils all throughout the internet.<\/p>\n

As Hill describes the process in her report to Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/p>\n