Re:Unplug From Google
by huhtenberg on Sunday January 06, 2013 @10:17AM
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> ... and that website has analytics (Google Analytics) ...
Or Google Fonts. Or Google-hosted Javascript code. Or Google+ icon. Or god knows what else they just throw out there so that it would get inserted into people's websites and be pinging back. Whatever it takes, take it, take it all for free, just ping us back, damn it.
Ahem, yeah. That was the rant part.
The rational comment would be that the biggest problem unplugging from Google is other people's use of Gmail. You can evade Google all you want, but when you email someone at [email protected] and it ends up being a Gmail alias, they got you, with all your email headers.
Or Google Fonts. Or Google-hosted Javascript code. Or Google+ icon. Or god knows what else they just throw out there so that it would get inserted into people's websites and be pinging back. Whatever it takes, take it, take it all for free, just ping us back, damn it.
Ahem, yeah. That was the rant part.
The rational comment would be that the biggest problem unplugging from Google is other people's use of Gmail. You can evade Google all you want, but when you email someone at [email protected] and it ends up being a Gmail alias, they got you, with all your email headers.