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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, ...

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 collection and attribution

The issue is in attributing a domain name, for example google-analytics.com to a company, Google. 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. Look for replacement

 * 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

URL _TODO_

In this wiki, the page should be named: replacement-$productName **without Google** reported, for example: _TODO_.

Products list:

Replacement format, this is the content which should be present in the page of every product

Headline

What is the product about, why it is present

Replacements

This is a piece of description of the replacement, with links.