Tool beeps every time data is sent to Google [spoiler: “constant” beeping]

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  • BlackHole

    BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

  • BlackHole adds a loopback audio device which can be used with the default video capture tool (select the loopback device in the options menu after pressing shift-command-5).

    [1]: https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

  • googerteller

    audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into google

  • You could also beep on important events in your own log files, beep for each request that hits your socket, or set up the runtime to tell you when garbage is collected.

    [0] https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller

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  • nextdns

    NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)

  • Not OP, but I've been using NextDNS [1] (a similar pi-hole like setup) on my phone and in its analytics there's a GAFAM Dominance graph.

    This graph [2] isn't mine but it looks similar to my results.

    [1]: https://nextdns.io

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