I wanted to see how internet looked like without Google...

Some devices and software go automatically to Google, for basic things like DNS, or checking if the connection is up. Some sites pull resources like fonts, styles and javascript code directly from Google. So I wondered, to what extent the internet is usable if Google is not available.I wrote this script to create a black hole route for all Google-owned addresses, while logging the activity. Then I started browsing, checking what still worked and which software was trying to talk to Google for no evident reason, like Chrome, that tries to call home all the time while browsing, even in sites that have no content linked to them.Without internet access to Google many sites become unusable, while others show no noticeable changes. If instead of rejecting packages they are silently dropped, even some of the working sites start to crawl (waiting for the resources). I think that would be the most likely post-effect of a world-wide Google blackout, for those devices and software that are able to cope with it. via /r/technology https://ift.tt/2v44VWd