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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile View Post
Actually Google's is based on selling your information to people who then target you with ads, obnoxious pushy marketing and spam - and selling ads.

I specifically block all Google domains using Little Snitch. I'm not saying there aren't others out there just as bad if not worse, but they're particularly obnoxious to me - they more or less invented "big data" as it has come to exist today.
+1 for Little Snitch.

Takes a day or two to train but after that it becomes very unobtrusive and does what it's supposed to do.

If you want to do it the geek way edit your hosts file.

But then you need to monitor for new domains.

Little Snitch rolls both into one neat little gui.
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