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googerteller: an audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into google (github.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A cool software for degooglers that makes a little noise every time your computer sends a packet to a tracker or Google service.

EDIT: There is also a Firefox add-on for web browsing.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Damn, just used the real googerteller.

Install gcc git cmake
Clone the repo with git
cmake . and make
sudo tcpdump -nql | ./teller

I ran "degoogled" Chromium, but just with some policies, the Fedora version.

Pings to Google when I open the "select account" page
when viewing the password manager entries
when opening an Addons dropdown menu?? Ublock Origin?
when creating a new user, when deleting it
when using Signal desktop, every second

Brave:

not in the profile selection
when loading the installed addons, a looot

Omg

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I also ran it while browsing with ungoogled-chromiun in Debian with ublock origin in "strick mode" and there wasn't a single sound. I didn't try your tests but I have a lot of google domains that I added over the years in the uBO rules to block them, like googleapis and stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nice!

I use Secureblue which uses the Fedora-packaged Chromium. It has pretty fast updates and bundled SELinux rules, which is always important.

Secureblue now uses a policy to block a lot of surface Google stuff, but I can imagine how that doesnt cover the tight Google Integration everywhere...

Fedora fixed Firefox so now it accepts using a different memory allocator, in this case hardened_malloc (from GrapheneOS). So I will be able to use Firefox again! (Before it just crashed)

Chromium is not even nice. Tab groups are cool, and the compact interface and CSD decorations with hitbox in the very edge. But the rest is just copied Firefox.

Brave breaks Sites randomly and is full of bloat. Compiling it without all those modules may be an option but if we want a good, fast, memory safe Browser with an independent Addon store... there needs to come something else.