Can we block these requests?

[javaDeveloperKid]

Can we block these or this repo's functionality is just informational?

[jonas-w]

You could archieve this with a firewall and add all these subnets listed in goog-prefixes.txt to a blocklist for outgoing traffic.

But this will break stuff on the internet

[douglaz]

A script for this would be very interesting

[javaDeveloperKid]

But this will break stuff on the internet

Will break my Internet surfing? Or you mean that if people started blocking these requests then Google would have less data and in consequence would be less smart as an search engine?

[jonas-w]

@javaDeveloperKid it will break your browsing experience. Sadly most websites rely on google or google servers.

[berthubert]

Hi - you can block Google easily enough, and a surprising amount of the web continues to work. The biggest issue is that ReCaptcha no longer works. Blocking however is not the focus of this tool, so I am closing this issue here.