On: Tool beeps every time data is sent to Google

[vachina]

China did not shrug and forced the development of local equivalents like a little more than a decade ago.

And theyre now still painted as the bad guy for "censoring".

[suzakus → vachina]

Censoring and forcing local equivalents is a false equivalence.

The censoring makes the western internet quite hard to use without vpns (or last time I was there, Google Fi seemed to not have to go through the firewall and routed the traffic through Europe somehow?)