InclusionsReplacement

This page address the third party resources loaded by Google. It is created as part of a mapping and awareness campaign, it include few technicalities for internal usage or related to Google products.

Google third party inclusions

With Google third party inclusions we talk about all the Google services which effect is making a browser web connecting to Google infrastructure when the person navigating is willingly going on a website which do not belong to Google.

External resources

Others group already address, among the many, Google monopoly. No More Google, switching.social, and this article is a quite big list.

Format Example

If you connect to https://www.mozilla.org and you are running a tool on your browser to spot third party trackers (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601488/largest-study-of-online-tracking-proves-google-really-is-watching-us-all/, G. is the monopolist of those) you might see, on 11 October 2018, a connection to YouTube (this belong to Google infrastructure)

Our "attribution logic"

When we do a technical analysis we see only domain names, such as google-analytics.com, but the information we want is the company name (Google) and the product name (Analytics). This example is the simplest, other Google product have domain names without having google in their name, and the product is attributed by looking at the URL.

The list used is currently this, and should be maintained/verify if is updated: company.js, and the attributing of Google product is made based on URL schema and domain name, this should be updated and verify too: google.js

Methodology

This list stay in a dedicate format, because should be machine readable, the methodology consists in:

1. Pick a product,
2. Ask yourself: Is it a service?: look at the privacy policy, Is it a software?: look at the technical specification.
3. Write a small summary, find the most accessible product link.
4. Open the page about the product replacements and add a new product.

Product list (and their replacement)

The pages linked (the one who starts with "Replacement" are a standard format, please update the by copying the example in the page.

• Google Fonts, Replacement Fonts
• Google DoubleClick, Replacement ADS
• Google Analytics Replacement Analytics
• Google Tag Manager (still unclear what is it, we need an analysis), please update this issue
• Google ADS, Replacement ADS
• Google translate, Replacement Translate
• Google Captcha, Replacement Captcha
• YouTube, Replacement Video
• Google Maps Replacement Maps
• Google webmaster tools (still unclear what is it, we need an analysis), please update this issue
• Google AMP Replacement AMP
• BlogSpot Replacement BlogSpot
• Google +1, well, this is already dead
• Google CDN Replacement CDN
• Login with Google Replacement Login
• Google Loader (still unclear what is it, we need an analysis), please update this issue