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.
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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
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