Audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into Google

A common explanation I get from people with poor digital hygiene is that they do not see how it is affecting them. Making the imperceptible perceptible is a great concept for more innovations.<p>I have sent the kids in my house logs for their devices from the DNS blocker I have running on our network, but it was too much for them to digest. Perhaps I should work on a visualization tool of all the data that shows impacts of their data leakage and puts it in a video format they can consume. It sounds like a lot of work to build.

Not to make excuses for Google, but is this an entirely accurate portrayal?<p>Like, I&#x27;ve been working on a web project that doesn&#x27;t contain <i>any</i> analytics, but which stores and retrieves JSON data in Google Firebase. I imagine if I opened my website with this tool, I would hear lots of noise.<p>But, I just can&#x27;t imagine how Google could do anything useful (to them) with my random JSON blobs.

I consider myself very privacy conscious, bordering on the paranoid. I use FOSS as much as possible, avoid FAANG, and remove surveillance from my life wherever I can.<p>This tool shocked me. It exposes in a visceral way just how prevalent Google is, and does a better job getting that idea across than every video, article, post or comment I&#x27;ve consumed on the topic.

Or alternatively, you can send all the traffic destined to google, into dev-null instead:<p><pre><code> U=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;berthubert\ &#x2F;googerteller&#x2F;main&#x2F;goog-prefixes.txt for i in $(wget -qO - $U); do ip route add unreach $i done </code></pre> ...but you&#x27;d be surprised how many of seemingly unrelated places on the Internet would break without google.

Video and audio here - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bert_hu_bert&#x2F;status&#x2F;1561466204602220544" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bert_hu_bert&#x2F;status&#x2F;1561466204602220544</a>

Cool idea!<p>I replaced the &quot;teller&quot; program part also with shell script, so that one would give you the clicking without the need to compile:<p><pre><code> sudo tcpdump -n -l dst host 8.8.8.8 $(for a in $(curl -s https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;berthubert&#x2F;googerteller&#x2F;main&#x2F;goog-prefixes.txt); do echo or dst net $a; done) | while read; do paplay &#x2F;usr&#x2F;share&#x2F;sounds&#x2F;freedesktop&#x2F;stereo&#x2F;dialog-information.oga; done </code></pre> Quite enlightening to have that running while browsing...

Would&#x27;ve probably piqued more interest if it were a browser plug-in.

Perhaps I missed it but a video (with audio, presumably) of this working would be helpful.

I got it running now and it&#x27;s incredible how much of my interaction is being immediately reported. Having taken some steps before to block analytics, it&#x27;s still going off like Geiger counter in the Zone.<p>I always find it amazing when speaker is utilized to &#x27;visualize&#x27; occasional events.

This is absolutely epic and terrifying. Just moving my mouse makes it play the noise. It&#x27;s not too dissimilar to a Geiger counter, it&#x27;s most radioactive when you do a google search!

It&#x27;s very silent for me.<p>I tried going on google and then bam geiger counter mode activated. But i seem to have blocked enough to not have it go off every second.

goog-prefixes.txt only contains IPv4 addresses, so if you have IPv6, it&#x27;ll miss most of the traffic.

On OSX you can install this to get audio: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;espeak-ng&#x2F;pcaudiolib" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;espeak-ng&#x2F;pcaudiolib</a>

Ok. What does it sound like on Firefox or Safari or Brave or anything other than Chrome (a Google product)?

Did anyone get it working on MacOS? I couldn&#x27;t find the audio library in homebrew and gave up.

as if I wasn&#x27;t already paranoid enough... this makes me more so... I was afraid it was going to read me what google learns, but hearing the pops makes me realize just how much I&#x27;m producing for Google every second.

Is it possible to customize &#x2F; extend? Apple? Twitter? Facebook etc?

So this is why when I google for information about [x], a day or so later Google News starts showing me bad news involving [x]?

Any videos of this in action?

needs a youtube link of demo in readme