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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32617787
Heh.
Top comment:
I have done something a tad different.
I am running my custom made proxy (dns blocking like pihole is a joke, you can circumvent it as simply as https://2899908462 ) with interesting features like ASN ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet) ) blocking and for fun I have blocked all google ASNs.
Half of the internet stopped working.
Then I have expanded this to google, microsoft, amazon, facebook ASNs.
The whole internet stopped working. From all search engines I am aware of, only yandex.ru was still operational.
What you are seeing with beeping is just a tip of iceberg. The google is getting far more data from its cloud.
I don't believe that most of advanced users are aware of, how deep the rabbit hole of internet centralization has gone.
And until people figure out how important self hosting actually is, it is only going for worse (yeah, I understand how convenient, blah, blah... the cloud is).
Heh, again.
Actually, I've been using yandex.ru quite a bit lately, when I use tor.