This tool alerts you when data is being sent to Google

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Googerteller signals when Google withdraws data

Google’s business model is all about data. Among other things, the company collects a lot of information about search queries in order to place personalized advertising, for example. The majority of users are aware of Google’s insatiable thirst for data, but they hardly notice anything about it due to the process in the background. As a result, you quickly forget that your own user data is constantly being sucked off and you may even find it quite normal. In order to draw attention to the “data octopus Google” again, the Dutch developer Bert Hubert created the browser extension “Googerteller”. This causes your own PC to make a sound every time data is transferred to Google. This should make it clear to users how often more or less personal information is exchanged. Hubert demonstrates his program in a video on Twitter and shows that the computer spits out a sound with almost every click or keystroke.

This is how Googerteller works

As the website iTopNews explains, Googerteller uses a list of IP addresses published by Google itself to detect data transfers. These IP addresses are associated with services that the company offers. Every time your own computer establishes a connection to these servers and thereby exchanges data, the PC emits a sound. According to the Caschys Blog, Hubert has already excluded the Google Cloud. So far the program only works on Linux. So if you want to try it yourself, you need a browser for Linux. According to iTopNews, there should not only be a real orchestra with Google Chrome, but also with Firefox.

Googerteller is not only sounding the alarm on Google

Google tracks internet users well beyond its own borders. It should be clear that Googerteller makes a sound with every action on the Google website. As soon as you enter a search query or address, each individual letter is sent to Google to return appropriate suggestions. But even away from Google, Googerteller shows that data is transferred to the US company. As presented by Hubert in his video on Twitter, for example, even on the Dutch government’s website a signal sounds with almost every keystroke. According to BASIC thinking, the reason for this is that many website operators use the Google Analytics tool to analyze the behavior of their users. As can be seen, Google accesses user data in many places on the Internet – even if the users are not even aware of it.

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