EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection

Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by Razengan on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:28PM (#21673851)

Somewhat related, a thing I found suspicious, though not surprising, the last time I tried it:

Try Googling for how to block all Google Analytics and related services in your Hosts file.

Does it seem harder to find a simple list of IP addresses + instructions than it should be?

While Google Search results quality has gone down across the board in the last 3 or so years, it seemingly tries particularly hard to pretend it doesn’t understand what you mean with queries like these.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by anchpop on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:33PM (#21673875)

Why would Google put itself under insane risk from anti-anticompetitve regulation and huge bad PR just to prevent a tiny minority of users from blocking google analytics?

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by StuffedParrot on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:12AM (#21674140)

This is hardly unusual for them; they removed the ability to blacklist sites from domains because people were blacklisting commercial sites.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by Semaphor on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:45AM (#21674222)

Do you have any source for that? Otherwise, it’s just as much conjecture as the other claim.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by StuffedParrot on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:40AM (#21683313)

I recommend googling :)

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by mortehu on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:55PM (#21673929)

There's not going to be a simple list of IP addresses for any service behind an ever changing global collection of load balancers shared with a number of other services.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by kevinh on Sunday December 01, 2019 @12:25AM (#21673996)

When I type "block google analytics hosts file" into Google, the first three results are guides on how to do that.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by pujjad on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:45AM (#21674223)

This might help:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Apart from adware and malware it offers to block url's falling into other categories like fakenews, social, gambling, and porn.

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by emiliobumachar on Sunday December 01, 2019 @12:19AM (#21673980)

Do you get better results for that with other search engines?

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Re:EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google... by Zren on Monday December 02, 2019 @07:30PM (#21688694)

Googling "hosts zero" should give you a good block list. Google is rarely the only thing people want to block, so it makes sense that there isn't $company specific instructions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743202

https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/

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