I get spammed by them all the time but have so far resisted and stayed with my crappy, slow, and expensive ADSL provider out of principle. But the ADSL provider just raised prices on me AGAIN and it’s ridiculous.
What do I do? Is Google Fiber as invasive as other Google stuff? What if I just use it to tunnel a VPN to a non-Google endpoint?
This is sure annoying. It occurs to me that Comcrap might be available here as an alternative, but that must be as evil as Google. At least the ADSL company is reasonable about privacy, as such companies go.
Thanks for any thoughts.
I would get the Google Fiber and use a VPN for nearly everything.
It’s what I do with Comcast.I have it, and I’m otherwise de-googled.
- Use your own router, not theirs
- Set your router’s DNS to something other than google’s, and use DOH whenever possible.
- Force all web sites to use HTTPS whenever possible.
- If you’re extra concerned, use a nailed up VPN, preferably via your router.
New here, I’ve always used Google’s DNS to get away from my ISP’s. Is there a free alternative that I can switch to?
1.1.1.1 is cloudflare, whose evilness score is up to you. Better than google afaict but who knows.
